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We had a short fast week! We ended the week recognizing 8 students in each class who have exhibited excellence in math, reading, growth mindset, and citizenship. Congratulations to the students who received an award in my classroom! A couple of reminders:
Flood Hour: Flood math and reading time is focused on skills specific to your student. This week we used flood time and part of math time to take iReady Math progress monitoring. Your student should be able to tell you how they scored in comparison to their MOY test in December. We will be taking iReady reading this coming week. If you do not sign up for a conference I will send home results on March 9th otherwise, I will provide you results at your conference time. Math: We are moving through unit 5 learning to use our strategies when solving word problems. 1. Re-read the problem 2. Underline important information 3. Draw a picture or write an equation 4. Do we have a total? If yes, it is a subtraction or division problem; if no, it is an addition or multiplication problem. Literacy: We wrapped up unit 4 week 1 which was extended out from the prior week. Our focus was on identifying the author’s point of view and locating text evidence to support our finding. Writing: In writing we learned to use a graphic organizer to organize our ideas from two passages with a goal of creating a well written paragraph response to the final question on their weekly assessment. Content Literacy: We are wrapping up our solar system unit this coming week and will be moving into a social studies unit titled Where in the World? toward the end of the week. As always please feel free to reach out if you have questions or concerns. Email works best but if you need to chat by phone or schedule a conference please let me know! Have a terrific evening! Jessica Van Thorre
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You have some pretty amazing kiddos! I love coming to work each and every day to their smiling faces and just love that they are excited to learn! Thank you for sharing them with me and allowing me to be a part of their journey! A couple of reminders:
Flood Hour: Flood math and reading time is focused on skills specific to your student. We alternate daily between the focus being on math or reading. During math this past week we really focused on the math standard measuring time, volume, and mass. The class as a whole was not showing mastery of this 3rd grade standard. Ways you can help: have students figure out how many hours you ran errands, or how long they spent in the car, point out volume measurements and mass of products while shopping. In reading we focused on similes, metaphors, and our idiom of the week: The Early Bird gets the Worm! Have your student explain what that means! Math: We took our 3rd quick quiz for unit 4 on Wednesday and the unit assessment on Friday. We will graph our results and make corrections on Monday. As we move into unit 5 we will be focusing on solving one and two step word problems using all of the operations and strategies we’ve learned. Literacy: Week 6 of our Wonders curriculum is always a review week so this week we focused heavily on poetry. We learned about cinquain poems, rhyming verse, free verse, alliteration, similes, metaphors, lines, and stanzas. Your student should be able to explain each of those terms to you. We read 5 different poems and discussed each one in depth this week. We are moving along with our novel studies. Frindle and A Snow Day from the Black Lagoon groups will be finishing their novel this coming week and have a comprehension assessment. Bud, Not Buddy and Lemonade War groups have a couple more weeks of their novels but are enjoying their books immensely. Writing: Writing this week we wrapped up penguin research final copies. This coming week we will officially begin planet research and focus heavily on improving our written response to text. We will also be taking the MOY district writing prompt assessment to measure growth from the beginning of the year. Content Literacy: We have completed our study of the planets and moved into other parts of the solar system. We learned about meteoroids, asteroids, and comets. We will move onto Earth’s moon this week with a fun lab using Oreos to learn the phases of the moon and begin discussing how seasons are created. As always please feel free to reach out if you have questions or concerns. Email works best but if you need to chat by phone or schedule a conference please let me know! Have a great rest of your weekend! Jessica Van Thorre Good Afternoon,
February is here…brrr it’s cold outside! We had a terrific week of learning and practicing growing our minds and hearts! A couple of reminders:
Flood Hour: Flood math and reading time is focused on skills specific to your student. We alternate daily between the focus being on math or reading. Your student should be able to tell you the skill their group is working to master in order to improve their iReady test scores. Math: We are moving through unit 4 and will finish it on February 11th. Students took quick quiz #2 to assess their skills for 3 digit addition this past week. Those will come home next week. We will have quick quiz #3 on February 8th and unit assessment on the 10th. During this unit we are working on rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand. We are targeting addition and subtraction with 3 digits and finding different ways to solve the problem using grouping. Literacy: We are moving right along in literacy. We focus weekly on standards: this past week we focused on the standard of being able to sequence a non-fiction text. Your students are reading a lot of material during the week. As it comes home it would be great practice to keep it for rereading which increases fluency and comprehension. We started novel literature circles this week, we will meet every Friday to discuss their weekly reading assignment and job. Depending on your child’s group they are reading either Bud, Not Buddy, Frindle, Lemonade War, A Snow Day from the Black Lagoon, or have a book baggie of books. Writing: I am so impressed with how hard your students are working on their research! We are wrapping up the editing stages and moving into final copy! By the end of next week we will have wrapped up penguin research and moved into planet research to accompany our solar system unit! Content Literacy: This week we learned about Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune! Next week we will move into Earth’s moon and studying it for a couple of days! As always please feel free to reach out if you have questions or concerns. Email works best but if you need to chat by phone or schedule a conference please let me know! Have a terrific weekend! Jessica Van Thorre |
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