Reminders:
11/10 - Veteran's Day Program in the Cafeteria at 9:00am. Doors open to get a good seat at 8:50a.m.
11/20 -11/24 - Thanksgiving Break (No School)
12/7 - Toys for Tots Please send a new and unwrapped gift to donate. Children will get a chance to drop their toy with local firefighters and Santa Claus.
12/15 - Noon Dismissal for Winter Break
Homework: Remember that we ask that your child read for at least 20 minutes each day (outside of regular school hours). You can also always check out our grade level weekly planner using the link on the right hand side of the blog.
Reading: Monday students will work to show what they know about inferring theme in fiction texts. We have had some great conversations about what lessons or messages an author might be trying to share with an audience. Your children are critical thinkers with big hearts. Please continue to talk to them at home about what lessons we can learn from the stories we read.Tuesday through Friday, we will introduce the idea of character traits and character feelings and model how readers use text evidence to infer what a character is feeling. We will also infer character traits using text evidence. While this is something that adults have internalized, this is something that third graders need to think through and talk through each time they meet a new character. Please continue our discussions at home by talking about characters in books you are reading, movies you are watching or television shows you see. Here are some question prompts:
What word would you use to describe the character?
Why is that a word that comes to mind?
What did the character say, do or think that helped you?
Writing: We have started our study on authors as mentors. Over the next two weeks we will focus on craft elements that effective writers use to help readers understand and experience their story. We will create a class anchor chart to record our learning and serve as a reminder of strategies we can now try out as we write about stories from our lives.This week we will look at how dialogue moves a story and helps the reader know more about the characters. We will also learn about ellipse and how they help slow down parts of a story to either build tension or transition from one event to another. Finally, we will conclude the week learning about how onomatopoeia can be used to add sensory details that help the reader feel like they are in the story.
Social Studies: This week students will read about resources a community uses to help keep its citizens safe. Specifically, they will learn about police departments (and K-9 cops), fire fighters, and paramedics. They will then reflect on ways that these people help in our local community.
Math: On Monday and Tuesday, we will walk through the steps for a two-step problems. Here is an example of a two-step problem that you can expect your child to see: There were a total of 689 fans who came to the first three basketball games. One hundred forty-two came to the first game and 136 came to the second game. How many fans came to the third game?
On Wednesday, we will work to create two step problems to understand the importance of the two parts found in the word problem. On Thursday, we will solve the word problems that we created on Wednesday. On Friday, we will continue working to create word problems when given a number sentence. Reference the video below for more information on how we will teach this in class:
Two-Step Word Problem Video
We will have worksheets come home on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night. We will also have a fast facts quiz on Friday. Thank you for continuing to support your child at home with fast facts and the worksheet.
*energy- what is needed to do work or cause change
*work - when a force moves an object
*force- a push or pull
*mechanical energy- the energy of moving objects
*kinetic energy- the energy of motion
*potential energy- the stored energy or possible energy depending on its position
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