Week 22: February 5th-9th

Week 22:  February 5th-9th

Reminders:  
Tuesday, 6th:  HCE Book Fair will be held in the library.  There will be a book fair dinner from 5:30-7:30pm on Monday evening.  Bring your special friends and family. 
Wednesday, 7th:  HCE Book Fair continues before school and during the day!  You have the opportunity to come early from 7:15-7:55am for breakfast with buddies in the library while you browse and shop. 
Thursday and Friday, 8th and 9th:  Noon dismissal.  

What should I bring on Valentine's Day?
The students can bring Valentines cards or candy, but we ask that you bring something for everyone in the class. The students make a valentines treat bag as well during the Valentine's party, so they do not need to bring a container for their treats and cards to go into. The class size list is below:

1. Saint-Val: 20
2. Ford-20
3. Badrak: 18
4. Duncan: 20
5. Morphey: 19
6. Rozzell: 21

Reading:  Our nonfiction journey continues this week as we head into determining importance within informational texts.  Good readers learn to recognize important information from interesting information as they read.  Interesting information is fun to read and adds to the overall text, but is not necessarily needed to understand the text topic.  This skill can be tricky for third graders as they have to set aside their personal opinions and think about the information, just the facts! 
Writing:  We truly enjoyed celebrating your writers last week at the end of our poetry unit!   We're headed to a new genre of writing, expository.  Expository writing is meant to give information, explain, and describe.  Your writers will be introduced to the genre this week as we model what it means to be an expository writer.  
Social Studies:  Our map projects are in full swing!  This week we will focus on fine tuning our last details as well as creating questions based on the our maps to ask others.  We're excited for our third graders to interact with and solve one another's questions.  What a great way to apply what they have learned within our map skills unit! 

Math: We are so proud of your mathematicians! They have been working hard to understand and learn each multiplication strategy (skip count, equal groups, area model, array). This week, the students will be more exposed to multiplication word problems. 

Science: We ended last week beginning the rapid changes unit. The students learned how earthquakes and mountains were formed as well as the layers of the Earth. We will continue building that knowledge by engaging in hands on activities. The Weathering, Erosion, and Soil Vocabulary cards and study guide were sent home today, February 6th. We will update you soon on the day of the quiz.

Homework: Please be sure to have your students be on DreamBox every day for 20-30 minutes as well as Homework #1-3 Monday-Wednesday. We will not a Problem of The Week this week. The Weekly Planner tab in this website is also a resource to communicate the specific homework(s) for the week.