Good Evening,
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
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