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We had a terrific week! Thank you for sharing your precious little ones with me! I absolutely love my job! I'm sure you noticed there were many papers that came home this weekend. Please be sure to look through them as there are several assessment results within the pile! Send the yellow Friday folder back tomorrow as well as the purple homework folder if you have it at home! A couple of reminders:
Math: We continued on with multiplication! We learned our 3s and 4s this past week! We have learned many strategies to solve multiplication equations! We will be finishing up with 1s and 0s this coming week and preparing for our final quick quiz. Our unit 1 test will be Tuesday, October 4th. I'm excited for all of your students to show how much they know! Literacy: In Wonders, our stories were Room to Grow and Gary the Dreamer with the focus being on our strategy and skill. We discussed sequencing, asking ourselves questions as we read, and compound words. Content Literacy: We continued our social studies unit on Community, Citizenship, and Responsibility. We focused this week on citizenship. We discussed different ways to demonstrate our citizenship within our communities! 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 wonderful week!
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It was so nice to have a full week with all academic pieces moving! Your kiddos did a wonderful job working hard, engaging in their learning, and bearing with me and my hoarse voice! Thank you for sending them with water bottles and snacks each day! We do have allergies in our classroom to peanuts, cashews, and pistachios. In order to keep these students safe snacks containing any of those three ingredients are NOT allowed in our classroom, thank you for your help in keeping all of my third graders safe! Your students wrote lovely thank you letters and drew pictures for our local police officers. It was National Thank a Police Officer Day on September 15th. Look for photos of your students holding their thank you on my website! Please read all the way down for important information! PICTURE DAY IS ON TUESDAY the 20th!! Math: We started the week off with graphing our first quick quiz results and making corrections to our quiz. We then moved into multiplication and division with 10s and 9s. We learned a new trick using our two hands to solve both multiplication and division with 9s. Give your student a few equations using 9s (ex. 9x4 or 81/9) and ask them to practice! We had our second quick quiz on Thursday. We looked at our results, graphed them, and made corrections on Friday. You will receive both quizzes this coming week in addition to the Math Benchmark A results for your student. If you have any questions about your student's progress please send me a message! Literacy: In Wonders, we read two stories The Dream Catcher and Yoon and the Jade Bracelet with the focus being on our strategy and skill. We discussed sequencing, visualization, and context clues. We continued our reading rotations this week and focused on work completion and expectations during this time. You will be receiving several tests home this coming week. The following tests will be included: Beginning of Year Comprehension Placement, Week 1 Comprehension, Week 1 Anthology Comprehension/Vocabulary test (Wolf), Week 2 Comprehension, and Week 2 Anthology Comprehension/Vocabulary (Yoon and the Jade Bracelet). Attached to each of these tests is a parent letter explaining the score based on the standards addressed. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out, I will explain more during parent/teacher conferences in October. Content Literacy: We began our social studies unit on Community, Citizenship, and Responsibility. We focused this week on community. We discussed different types of communities one might belong to as well as how to be an active person within a community. We will be moving into citizenship this coming week. A couple of reminders:
If you read this far THANK YOU! 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! Enjoy the rest of your weekend and GO BRONCOS!!! Good Evening,
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your children with me! They are doing such a nice job of transitioning into school routines. They have received many compliments from various staff on how awesome they walk in the hallway! When they receive compliments from staff they earn a cotton ball in the class jar. When the jar is full (we are 3/4 of the way there) they will earn a reward. Academically we jumped into the curriculum this week with two feet! Please read all the way down for important information! Math: We dove straight into multiplication! We began with multiplying by 5s and had a lot of practice counting by 5s! We learned that multiplication can also be repeated addition. Ask your student to show you how that works. We learned how to make an array and create a multiplication equation related to the array. We moved into a brief introduction of division and ended the week today with introducing multiplication and division by 2s. We will have our first quick quiz next week to check on our progress. Literacy: We had our first spelling pre-test on Monday and final test today. Thank you for helping your student study their words all week! In Wonders (our reading curriculum), we read two stories Bruno's New Home and Wolf with the focus being on our strategy and skill. We discussed characters and visualization extensively. We began our reading rotations as well this week, which allows me to meet with all students in small groups every single day. We read the same leveled book Tuesday-Friday and tie in fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, skill, and strategy. Lastly, I began goal setting with students for their iReady testing. We discussed their score from last week and how we together will make growth throughout the year to end May strong! Content Literacy: This week we focused our content literacy on the beginning of opinion writing. Students will be expected to create an opinion writing piece in the next couple of weeks. In order for your students to be successful they need to fully understand the difference between fact and opinion. We practiced each day defining fact and opinion and identifying facts and opinions. Ask them to give you an opinion and fact about pizza! We wrapped up our afternoon today with students sharing their All About Me Bags. They each did a terrific job speaking in front of the class, sharing their prized possessions, and felt pride to share with their classmates and myself. Thank you for supporting them in this project. A couple of reminders:
If you read this far THANK YOU! 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 safe and enjoyable long weekend! Good Evening Third Grade Parents,
A quick update on our week... We had a wonderful week in third grade. We had many opportunities to learn the rules and get back into the groove of being in school! This week we had lessons about friendships and filling buckets! We read the book "Have You Filled a Bucket Today" by Carol McCloud. Your student wrote about how they can fill a friend's bucket, my bucket, and Winona's bucket. I encourage you to ask your student how they can fill your bucket. We tied those lessons into friendships and what we expect from our friends. We had many assessments this week and your student did a tremendous job powering through assessments that will help guide my instruction throughout the year. Our In Focus lessons this week focused on safety in the classroom and fears. We discussed both of these and decided we will all be each others "tigers"! A couple of reminders:
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