Third Grade Update

Third Grade Update

Curriculum

Reading:  Our focus in Reader’s Workshop is retell/recount a text (stories, myth, fable, or folktale).  We continue to discuss the important parts to include in a retell (characters, setting, problem, and solution) in the students own words.

Writing: Students are drafting and revising our personal narratives.  Students are adding temporal (transition) words and show- not-tell to their writing.

Math: Student started unit 2 this week. The class in focusing on fact families and fact extensions. We also introduced commutative property (turn around facts) .

Science: We are working on the unit Force and Motion.  We are discovering what is motion, what is force, how mass affects inertia, position, speed, and friction.

Social Studies: This week we kicked off our Maps unit. Students are reviewing the continents. We have also started to learn the difference between a globe and a map. Students will be assessed on identifying the 7 continents and 4 oceans.

Word Work: Student have been studying verbs. Students will take their Friday, September 12th. They will receive their next individual word work list this Monday.  Please make sure they are practicing spelling and sorting these words at home.  The test will be next Friday, September 26!

Important dates

Sept 12-Midterms (please sign and return)

Sept 26- Going to Grain Valley Library

Sept 27- Homecoming Parade and Stony Point Carnival

Oct 8- Sonic Night

Oct 9-Burr Oak Woods

Oct 14 McTeacher Night

Oct 15 Picture Retakes

Oct 20-22 Red Ribbon Week

Oct 21/23 Parent/Teacher conferences

Oct 23-24 No school

Oct 31 Fall Parties

Reminders

Please check the weather as it starts changing and send students with jackets for outdoor recess.

Donations

Specials Schedule for the week of Sept. 8-12

Monday-B    Tuesday -C     Wednesday-D      Thursday-E     Friday-A

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