Reminders for the Week
Writing Celebration - Monday, May 15th @ 8:05. We hope you can join us.
Writing Celebration - Monday, May 15th @ 8:05. We hope you can join us.
MAP Testing Starts This Week
Wednesday, May 10th - Practice Test
Thursday, May 11th - Language
Sunday, May 14th - Math
Tuesday, May 16th - Reading
From the Library
May 8 - Book talk with author and CAC parent, Eden Bowditch, 3:15 to 4 pm, MHS library
Used book sale (Note corrected times)
- Used book sale (Note corrected times)
- May 10, 3 to 7 pm
- May 11, 8 to 3:30 pm
- Donations of used books in good condition wanted
- May 22 - Last week of checkout for students
- May 29 - Overdrive training session for parents. Learn to access our ebooks! 2 to 3 pm, MHS library
- May 29 - All library materials due back in the ES library & last day of library classes
- June 3 - Summer checkout starts
Parents, please note that any student with overdue materials by June 6 will not receive his/her report card and the report will remain blocked until the library account is cleared. That also applies to students whose parents have overdue items.
READING
As they continue to read and investigate biographies, students will take note of the qualities and character traits that make this person’s life important enough to write about. They will continue to jot notes of findings about their subject, remembering to focus on the subject’s traits and not the basic facts. We are studying the genre of biographies for more than just memorizing facts about people’s lives- we are looking at the “bigger picture”. Students will start to notice that most subjects of biographies are considered brave or courageous in some way. So, as readers, they will learn to be able to identify specifically what makes the subject and their actions so unique. Students will then learn that as they are studying a person’s life, they will also need to understand what was/is happening in society at that time. This helps the reader identify who or which group of people the subject of the biography is representing. At the end of the week, students will determine how the subject’s contribution to society helped others and even us today.
WRITING
As third grade writers work towards their writing celebration that takes place next week, they will continue to revise their work to make it their personal best. Writers will draw on everything they learned in their earlier writing of fairy tales to add to their current work. They will also learn a new strategy to help the reader ‘stay in’ the story by varying the pace of the story to show whether a moment passes quickly or slowly. Rehearsing their story throughout the week will help them be ready for their audience.
MATH
Our week will wrap up with our mathematicians constructing rectangles using unit squares and determining the perimeters given a specific area for rectangles. For example, students can construct several different rectangles with an area of 18 sq. cm. and each rectangle will have a different perimeter due to their side lengths being different (e.g. 1 cm X 18 cm; 2 cm X 9 cm, etc.).
This week mathematicians will continue to determine the perimeter of objects and shapes using skills they’ve learned throughout the unit. Students will start the week with finding the perimeter of circles and circular objects using a string and ruler to measure the boundary. They will also solve problems involving perimeter with unknown measurements using a variety of the four operations to determine the unknown side lengths. For example, an irregular shape made up of two different rectangles can be broken up into those rectangles and the perimeter of the entire shape can be determined using the lengths provided to solve for the missing side lengths.
Also this week, students will demonstrate their understanding of the concepts of geometry and measurement taught thus far in their mid-module assessment. As always, we encourage our students to review the problem sets and homework from the module to be most prepared for the assessment and to approach each problem using the Read, Draw, Write method to thoroughly show their thinking.
Our week will wrap up with our mathematicians constructing rectangles using unit squares and determining the perimeters given a specific area for rectangles. For example, students can construct several different rectangles with an area of 18 sq. cm. and each rectangle will have a different perimeter due to their side lengths being different (e.g. 1 cm X 18 cm; 2 cm X 9 cm, etc.).
SCIENCE
This week in Science the observations continue. Groups have collaboratively created a specific question that relates to our essential questions;
How do plants and animals interact with and within their environment?
An example of a question is; What type of flower in our ecosystem, do bees prefer?
Each group will be given an ecosystem to observe and record their data. The ecosystems contain a variety plant and animal life.
They will design a way of recording their data. Our intention is that each group will spend 15 minutes twice a day (Morning and afternoon) to observe. They will then be given time to reflect and discuss their findings each day. Looking at the reasonableness of their research method and research question, adapting one of both is also a process that they will look at.
This week in Science the observations continue. Groups have collaboratively created a specific question that relates to our essential questions;
How do plants and animals interact with and within their environment?
An example of a question is; What type of flower in our ecosystem, do bees prefer?
Each group will be given an ecosystem to observe and record their data. The ecosystems contain a variety plant and animal life.
They will design a way of recording their data. Our intention is that each group will spend 15 minutes twice a day (Morning and afternoon) to observe. They will then be given time to reflect and discuss their findings each day. Looking at the reasonableness of their research method and research question, adapting one of both is also a process that they will look at.
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