Reminders for November 7-11:
11/7 - Third
Grade Recognition Ceremony at
11:00 in the Discovery Center - we will be recognizing students who receive
attendance or honor roll awards based on their 1st 9 weeks report card. Parents and family members are welcome to attend.
11/8 - Election
Day at HCE -
Please pack a nut free lunch this day.
We will be eating in our
classrooms
while voting is taking place in the cafeteria.
11/11 - Veterans Day Program at 9:00 in the cafeteria - please
have your child wear red, white, and blue. Progress Reports for the 2nd 9 weeks
will be sent home this day.
Reading: Students will start to learn to notice when they infer while
reading. Inferring is something we do ALL the time. You notice that
your friend isn’t as talkative and you ask what’s wrong. You see a picture of people bundled up and comment
that the weather must have been cold. These
sorts of thoughts are what we call an inference.
In
third grade, we use our schema (background knowledge),
plus text clues to help us make an inference
about characters, settings and events in the stories we read. Some
sentence stems we use to help us organize our thinking are:
I see (or I read)
________________________. I know ____________________. So, I can
infer_______________________.
Spelling: Spelling words went home on 11/2. Spelling test on 11/9. An application of spelling grade will be given sometime between 11/10-11/22, so please keep practicing words at home. We don’t want students to just memorize words, but we hope they will internalize spelling patterns and begin to apply them in their daily work.
Social Studies: HCE students will participate in our first book election. Our two candidates are the Book of the Month stories – Fine, Fine School and “Let’s Get A Pup!” said Kate. Students will individually vote electronically on November 8 and the winner will be on the morning announcements on Wednesday, the 9th. The winning book will be displayed in library!
Students will also be practicing for and
performing in a Veteran’s Day performance this week. This a wonderful way to learn about and honor
the men and women who defend and protect our country. This will help us move into our work on Good
Citizen’s for the rest of the 9 weeks grading period.
Math: On Monday, your child will take their subtraction test to finish our subtraction unit. We will continue to practice subtraction in class with our daily problem solving as well as through homework. The rest of the week we will begin learning about rounding numbers. We will round two and three digit numbers to the nearest 10 or 100. Along with rounding, we will also learn strategies for adding and subtracting rounded numbers.
Examples:
Numbers
rounded to the nearest 10: 24 is rounded to 20. 78 is rounded to 80. 312 is
rounded to 310.
Numbers
rounded to the nearest 100: 345 is rounded to 300. 876 is rounded to 900.
We
will have a problem of the week come home on Monday and it will be due on
Friday. Please study fast facts daily. A review worksheet will come home on
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Science: In science this week, we will learn about
mechanical energy and thermal energy. We will review kinetic and potential and
discuss examples of what each type of energy looks like. As a class we will go
to the playground and discuss when potential and kinetic energy is used while
we are on the playground each day. We will have groups discussing when
potential and kinetic energy is used on the swings, slide, monkey bars, soccer,
and football. For thermal energy we will discuss the sources of heat that we
use and things that are insulators and conductors.
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