March 4, 2019

Events

Important dates for the coming weeks:

• Wednesday 3/6:  Free Dress Day – Picture Day
• Friday 3/8:  Kona Ice on campus after school
• 3/11-3/15:  Book Fair
• 3/14:  Pi Day
• 3/15:  Dads and Donuts
• 3/15:  Green and Gold – Free Dress Day

Curriculum

• Students will:
  • Understand the function of possessive nouns in general and their functions in sentences.
  • Understand how geography, particularly landforms, influence community location and development.
  • Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.
  • Start writing informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
  • Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

We are starting fractions this week.  This can be a hard unit.  I’ve bumped fractions in your students’ ST Math curriculum to coincide with this unit.  Completing 20 minutes of ST Math a night will greatly increase student understanding of fractions.  (DO THE ST MATH!) I’ve also added fractions to Prodigy, Socrates, and Zearn, so students can complete homework with any of those programs as well.

We will tie up a few loose ends in poetry this week before moving on to literal and nonliteral language in reading.  Our reading responses will feed into our writing unit on informational and explanatory texts.  While teaching this unit, students will start using the RACES acronym to answer questions.  Google Classroom questions should be answered in this format until the end of the year.

R.A.C.E.S

Pi Day

What is the Pi day deal?  I love Pi day, and it’s a great way to tie in cross-curricular lessons.  On 3.14 (March 14, 2019), we will have a Pi Day in class.

I know! We’ve had a lot of events and have a field trip coming up.  But, this specific day does allow me to bring science, reading, math, and writing together.  We will eat pie!  I encourage students to wear a Pi shirt.  (I may own a few.)  Because we’ll be knee deep in fractions, this is a great time to discuss parts of wholes with pie as well.  If you would like to send in a pie, we will take it.  We only need five total pies.  Students will only have one piece of pie each.

Reading Week

Thanks for making reading week amazing!!!! It was awesome to have so many guest readers!  I am grateful, and we are grateful as a class.

3rd Grade Standardized Tests

We should have our testing schedule next week and I will share the dates we’ve been assigned for our final round of MAPs testing and SBAC testing.

2019-03-04-homework