Reminders:
1/9 STAARY STAARY NIGHT Third grade will host a STAAR information session Tuesday evening, January 9, to familiarize parents with our May state testing and answer any questions. We will meet in the library form 6:00pm to 7:00pm.
1/10 2nd NINE WEEKS RECOGNITION CEREMONY will be held in the cafeteria from 9:00-9:40am.
1/10 3rd GRADE AUTHOR VISIT Mac Barnett, author of The Terrible Two series, will visit our school on Wednesday, 1/10. We look forward to this author visit. You can purchase a copy of any of his books using the following link through Blue Willow Bookshop.
Reading: We launched our nonfiction genre unit last week and will continue to immerse ourselves in the genre this week. We will discuss how text features help us understand and synthesize information as readers. Text features are additional sources of information beyond the body of the text. Examples include: photographs, captions, bold words, subheadings, sidebars, maps, and diagrams. As nonfiction readers, it is important to know how to read as well as draw conclusions from these added pieces of information throughout the text. Additionally, we will round out reading MAP testing this week.
Homework Reminder: Let's start this new year off strong as readers! This is a friendly reminder that your child must read at home every night as their language arts homework. We watched this video in the fall and discussed what the words... EVERY SINGLE DAY, NO MATTER WHAT would mean for us as readers. Volume matters! Please support your child's reading life at home every single day...no matter what!
Writing: Writer's Workshop will be filled with poetry writing this week! Your children will learn a variety of tools to write poems that convey sensory details using the conventions of poetry. We will learn to look at the world through a poet's eyes and use language within our poems that show, instead of tell, what they mean. We will study and work with several mentor poems this week that illustrate wonderful examples of poetic devices and conventions.
Word Work: We look forward to getting back in the swing of things this week with our word work routine within Writer's Workshop and guided groups.
Social Studies: We will continue studying map skills this week. Technology has allowed us to have directions and maps at our fingertips. But what happens if we were lost with an uncharged phone? We will learn how to utilize a map to help us navigate a place and find our way to our destination. Important terms we will learn throughout the week include: grid, map, globe, longitude, latitude, compass rose, cardinal directions, hemisphere, key, symbols, legend, equator, city, continents, states ocean, geographer, and Columbus.
Math: We will continue to calculate and determine the perimeter of polygons. Perimeter is the distance around the outer edge and the sum of all the sides. Along with this basic knowledge, students will be given the perimeter of an object and the lengths of all but one side. Students must subtract to find the value of the missing side. We will also continue using the MAP skills website to grow their understanding and skills in specific math areas. Later in the week, students will determine the solution to addition and subtraction problems of time intervals in minutes using pictorial models or tool. Students will receive homework Monday-Wednesday, but should study their math facts daily.
Science: We will observe forces such as magnetism, friction and gravity acting on objects. Students will be engaged in activities this week such as a friction lab, a demonstration on gravity, and comparing friction in a Venn Diagram. Gravity is the force that pulls all objects together. Gravity pulls on similarly shaped objects at the same rate regardless of mass or weight. Friction is the force between an object and the surface it moves over. Friction creates heat and slows an object. It is a pull. We are sending home yellow vocabulary cards and a yellow paper that has all the vocabulary words this week. Please have the students study them daily.
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