Hi, parents!
Your students made it through a more considerable academic week this week. We worked on reading standards with our first novel, found many strategies to solve multiplication problems, and finished our writing community setup.
You likely noticed that your students have been building their own set of multiplication facts flash cards for homework. We will complete this set next week and continue to develop strategies for solving multiplication equations. These strategies include equal groups, doubling, finding patterns, and skip counting. Students should also continue to listen to their multiplication songs! (Sorry)
In reading, we worked on text to self, text to text, and text to world connections, while continuing to strengthen skills in answering questions by finding evidence within the text. These concepts will be reinforced next week as well. We will also work on making predictions in fictional text. We will continue to take our novel home and students will be required to read specific chapters next week. Please listen to them read aloud as it helps them build their fluency.
In writing, we will start working on the first major writing project that we will take through editing. We have continued to work on building our writing stamina. Your students will also become familiar with rubrics and how to read them.
We took our first MAPs test this afternoon. Your students worked hard! I am proud of them!
We will take our ELA MAPs test on September 6. Please make sure your student gets a good night’s rest on September 5.
Many of our 3rd grade standards differ from second grade standards by requiring students to work independently. You will notice that I will require each student to take complete responsibility for their work in the next couple of weeks. We will transition from “with assistance” to independence. This means that if your student is missing work, it is their responsibility to turn it in. If they do not put their name on their work, it is their responsibility to check the no name basket and claim graded work that doesn’t have a name.
Thanks for making sure your students complete their homework. The majority of our class completed homework on all four homework nights this week. This is great for week three!
Here are some important dates for the upcoming weeks:
- 9/3 – No School
- 9/4 – Book Fair Opens
- 9/5- Fall Pictures and Free Dress
- 9/5 – Academic Night – 5:30-7:30
- 9/6 – Boelter’s Class MAPs Testing (ELA)
- 9/7- Superhero Day/Free Dress
- 9/7 – Grandparents Breakfast
Thank you for continuing to make this a great year. We are off to a great start. You are amazing and I am thankful. Have a great 3-day weekend!
Ms. Boelter
Ms. B. in Class 