Hello 3rd grade families!
Announcements
- October 4th is picture day and Homecoming week is next week!
- Make sure your scholar arrives to school on time (before 7:55) so they can be unpacked and ready to go for the day!
- Father William is the new poem for these next two weeks due October 6th.
- Sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences, check the email from GHNO to sign up!
- Help your scholar practice their Rocket Math Songs and use flashcards. Here is a link to buy some on Amazon
Here is what we will be up to in our subjects this week:
Math: Unit 2 Test on Friday
We are learning adding and subtracting numbers within 1,000 and 10,000. We are building a firm foundation of rounding and adding & subtracting numbers when changing the place value.
Math homework: From the blue Math book along with Rocket Math (RM). It should be two minutes around saying the facts out loud, then 1 minute timed test, just like we do in class. We also will have some Math packets to complete for homework.
Science:
In Science we are learning about habitats and changes! We read together in our Core Knowledge science books and are working on answering the chapter's "big question" in complete sentences. This is a way that we practice our writing skills and the skill of being attentive readers.
History:
We are reading about Native Americans in the unit on the Earliest Americans. We complete a "big question" which summarizes our learning over the reading. They are learning to write diligently and restating the question in our answer.
One of the key things third graders learn this year is STUDY SKILLS! They have a study guide packet to help support them in building studying habits and how to prepare for a test well!
Grammar: Wednesday night Home Connection HW
In Grammar, we are learning about parts of speech, writing in a complete sentence, restating a question, and finding text evidence.
For Grammar homework, you will have a home connection worksheet this week. This week the home connection is about text evidence and its importance. Feel free to also review your student's notes for restating the question if you are curious about this process.
How to: on our grammar home connection assignments, students will use their notes from grammar to discuss with their parents what they are learning. Parents will fill out a short record of the conversation. You can expect to receive a version of this homework assignment once per week--occasionally it will be replaced by a worksheet or study guide for your student to complete.
Writing:
In Writing, we are working on writing in complete sentences. Your student should be practicing creating sentence stems for their sentences by restating the question in their answer. We took detailed notes on how to do this last week in our grammar notebooks. Now we are putting it into practice through writing exercises and worksheets. You will see some of these come home soon!
Literature:
In Literature, we are reading Little House on the Prairie. We are learning 1-2 literary devices each week and working on identifying and annotating these in the chapters that we read! We are learning alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and imagery. We are working on writing summaries of our chapters and on differentiating between a summary (involves a beginning, middle, and end) and a main idea (a single sentence that expresses the most important event or central thought of a story).
Spalding: Test Friday over 30 new words!
We have completed our Spalding review and are beginning our regularly Spalding routine of learning 30 words per week. We will learn 10 words on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On Thursday, we review all 30 words. On Friday, we have a test of 30 words and 10 phonograms. We review phonograms daily through oral review.
Homework: Make sure your scholar writes one time with rules and markings and the next time with just the words. This should be dictated out loud similar to how the test will be on Fridays.
Reading/Keyboarding:
During Reading class, students read independently or in small groups with the teachers, or we read together a chapter of our Language Arts books. These stories help us to study vocabulary and learn new strategies for interacting with texts as we read. We complete worksheets on key language arts skills and use the chapters we read to help us answer the questions.
For reading homework, students should read aloud to a parent or adult for 20 minutes, and the student should write a one sentence summary of what they learned or what happened in the material they read. The Read Aloud logs are due each Monday for a grade.
Students also can work on their typing at home. They have their login information in their agenda so they can practice at home! The biggest aspect of typing is not looking at their fingers and not "peck and check" with two fingers. Remind your scholar to make sure to use correct typing posture. :)
Thank you for reading!
With wonder for our world and love for your students,
The Third-Grade team