Upcoming dates to put on your calendar:
1/3- Student holiday
1/4-Students return to school
1/4-Students return to school
1/6 - Third Grade Recognition Ceremony for the Second Nine Weeks, 9:00-9:30a.m. in the HCE Cafe
1/10 - STAARY STAARY NIGHT - Informational Parent Meeting about the third grade STAAR test. We will meet in the library from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
1/16- School Holiday for Students and Staff
Reading: Readers will continue to read poetry! Before the break, we focused on information in the poem that pulls at the reader's sense of hearing, smelling, seeing, feeling, and tasting. This week, we will spend more time studying how these sensory details also help us infer more about the character (feelings and emotions), situations, and moods we read about in poems. For example, what words in a poem suggest that a speaker is happy? or frustrated? We will use text evidence to support our thinking.
Writing: Writers will review what good writers do to help them plan and organize a small moment to share in writing or in conversation.
Spelling: New spelling groups will start Wednesday, January 11th, and the test will be the following Wednesday, January 18th.
Social Studies: Our focus on good citizens turns to Dr. Hector P. Garcia this week. We will learn about how he worked to make life better for Latino and Hispanic Americans.
Math: We continue our study of division this week. As an operation, division begins with a total (whole) and divides it into equal groups (parts). The octopus strategy is used when we know the total and the number of groups it is divided into. We are solving for the number in each group. This is how a problem like this sounds. A one pound bag of Snickers contains 24 candy bars. If 4 children share them equally, how many Snickers will each child get?
The octopus strategy looks like this:
Wednesday we will review what we have already learned about octopus division and practice the strategy in class. On Thursday and Friday, students will be introduced to the other division strategy, the cookie method. This one is used when we know the total (whole) and how many will be in each group. We are solving for the number of groups that will be formed. A problem like this is: A one pound bag of Snickers contains 24 candy bars. If each child gets 4 Snickers, how many children will get candy bars? Using dots, the 24 candy bars are circled in groups of 4. We end up with 6 groups representing the 6 children who will get Snickers. The cookie method looks like this:
Math homework for Wednesday and Thursday will be to study for our weekly Fast Fact Friday quiz. There is no written homework.
Science: On Wednesday we will be reviewing friction as the force between an object and the surface it moves over. Surfaces with much friction will slow an object quickly, whereas surfaces with little friction will not. Students will participate in a "Toy Car Race" to explore surfaces and friction in our room. On Thursday and Friday we will explore gravity and its effect on Earth and falling objects. Gravity is the force that pulls objects toward each other. Larger objects have stronger gravity than smaller objects. The Sun's gravity holds the planets in their orbits and the moon's gravity causes Earth's tides to rise and fall. The rate an object falls here on Earth is controlled by its shape and the amount of air resistance it experiences, not its weight or mass. Astronauts on the Moon performed an experiment that helps to show us that.
Math: We continue our study of division this week. As an operation, division begins with a total (whole) and divides it into equal groups (parts). The octopus strategy is used when we know the total and the number of groups it is divided into. We are solving for the number in each group. This is how a problem like this sounds. A one pound bag of Snickers contains 24 candy bars. If 4 children share them equally, how many Snickers will each child get?
The octopus strategy looks like this:
Wednesday we will review what we have already learned about octopus division and practice the strategy in class. On Thursday and Friday, students will be introduced to the other division strategy, the cookie method. This one is used when we know the total (whole) and how many will be in each group. We are solving for the number of groups that will be formed. A problem like this is: A one pound bag of Snickers contains 24 candy bars. If each child gets 4 Snickers, how many children will get candy bars? Using dots, the 24 candy bars are circled in groups of 4. We end up with 6 groups representing the 6 children who will get Snickers. The cookie method looks like this:
Math homework for Wednesday and Thursday will be to study for our weekly Fast Fact Friday quiz. There is no written homework.
Science: On Wednesday we will be reviewing friction as the force between an object and the surface it moves over. Surfaces with much friction will slow an object quickly, whereas surfaces with little friction will not. Students will participate in a "Toy Car Race" to explore surfaces and friction in our room. On Thursday and Friday we will explore gravity and its effect on Earth and falling objects. Gravity is the force that pulls objects toward each other. Larger objects have stronger gravity than smaller objects. The Sun's gravity holds the planets in their orbits and the moon's gravity causes Earth's tides to rise and fall. The rate an object falls here on Earth is controlled by its shape and the amount of air resistance it experiences, not its weight or mass. Astronauts on the Moon performed an experiment that helps to show us that.
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