Reminders for the Week
Please come to Family Math Night Wednesday, February 7th at 4:14 - 5:30.
READING
WRITING
This week in writing workshop, students will get to choose a new fairy tale to adapt. Of course it will be a fairy tale they know well and can recite from memory. In this part of the unit, students are transferring what they learned in their first experience of writing fairy tales to their second piece. Students will assess their own writing to set goals that will help push their writing forward. Their revision will focus on dialogue, sentence variety, and scenes that include details to show their story rather than telling it. As fairy tales are an oral genre, you can help your student at home by asking them to story tell their new ideas for their story.
MATH
This week also marks the end of Module 4 and as such our mathematicians will have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of area and how area relates to multiplication and addition on the End of Module Assessment. Encourage your student to review their problem sets from Module 4 in preparation and to use the Read, Draw, Write method to clearly and fully express their thinking.
SCIENCE
This week in Science we bring the unit on Sound and Light to an end.The project groups will practice their scene and effects before recording it in the AV room. Once it is recorded they will be shown how to use imovie and create their group clip that includes a voice over at the end describing how each of the light and sound effects works using topic relate vocabulary.
The students have really enjoyed being creative with the script and effects and are excited to record, work on and watch their final product.
Please come to Family Math Night Wednesday, February 7th at 4:14 - 5:30.
This week in reading, students will continue their investigation into character studies. They will learn that characters travel along a story mountain, which makes their evolution predictable. Readers will be reminded to expect characters to face troubles and will learn to pay attention to the way each character reacts in face of these problems. They will learn that characters sometimes act in contradictory ways and that readers can learn from these inconsistencies. At the same time, students will begin analyzing the roles secondary characters play in shaping the main character's journey.
To strengthen comprehension and develop speaking and listening skills, students will begin book clubs, an opportunity to bring up questions, observations and comments and get different perspectives from their peers. Students in book clubs are expected to plan their reading for the week, take responsibility and prepare for the book club meeting by having read the agreed upon pages and jot down their ideas.
WRITING
This week in writing workshop, students will get to choose a new fairy tale to adapt. Of course it will be a fairy tale they know well and can recite from memory. In this part of the unit, students are transferring what they learned in their first experience of writing fairy tales to their second piece. Students will assess their own writing to set goals that will help push their writing forward. Their revision will focus on dialogue, sentence variety, and scenes that include details to show their story rather than telling it. As fairy tales are an oral genre, you can help your student at home by asking them to story tell their new ideas for their story.
MATH
This week third grade mathematicians will learn to find the area of irregular figures by decomposing (or breaking-apart) a figure into two rectangles, calculating the area for each rectangle, and adding the areas together to find the total area for the figure. Another strategy they can use to find the area of irregular figures is to calculate the area of a composite figure (or larger rectangular space) and then subtract the area of the space that isn't actually a part of the figure.
SCIENCE
This week in Science we bring the unit on Sound and Light to an end.The project groups will practice their scene and effects before recording it in the AV room. Once it is recorded they will be shown how to use imovie and create their group clip that includes a voice over at the end describing how each of the light and sound effects works using topic relate vocabulary.
The students have really enjoyed being creative with the script and effects and are excited to record, work on and watch their final product.
Grade 3 Guidance Update:
“ No way, cliques are not okay. Everyone can play!”
In Guidance students are learning about healthy and unhealthy friendship groups. They are learning about “exclusion” and how to recognize the difference between cliques and a group of friends. We are discussing personal responsibility, integrity and the power of one to make a difference. Students will practice assertive statements for standing up for themselves and for others.
An Exclusive Clique
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A Group of Friends
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1. Members give up their uniqueness
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1. Each person feels he/she can be him/herself.
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2. Unkindness is shown to others and there is an unwillingness to solve conflicts
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2. Shows kindness to others and a willingness to solve conflicts
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3. A closed group - excludes others from joining and prevents its’ members from playing with people outside the clique
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3. An open group – anyone can join and friends feel free to play with others
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