Thursday, March 16, 2017

Spring Reminders

Optional Break Homework:  Optional break homework will be coming home with your student today.  I would like them to read (hopefully their Book Talk books) and do a multiplication workbook to practice facts.  Students who return it completed on Monday 4/3, will participate in a reward breakfast the week we return.

PARCC Schedule:  PARCC testing will begin on 4/4 at 8:50 in the morning with our first ELA test.  See the schedule below.

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Snack Schedule: If you signed up to provide a class snack during PARCC testing, thank you! The schedule can be viewed by clicking the link below:


Book Orders
I will be ordering from Scholastic the week we return from Spring Break. 

  • Go to scholastic.com/readingclub
  • Enter our one-time Class Activation Code- FMGW9
  • Shop and submit your child's book order.
  • Your books will be delivered directly to the classroom. 

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Library Book Talks- An email from Mrs. Golish

For the next 2 weeks, I am informing the students that they will be doing Book Talks in the library in April, and asking them to sign-up for their book of choice and their date to present. 

I give them a full week to choose a book, so that they can check with teachers or parents. 

After the students have signed-up, I will post the sign-up sheet (as a reminder) outside of your classroom door.

I am doing 2 sample book recommendations in the Book Talk format during class as an example. 
I provide Book Talk Guidelines and explain exactly what is expected for this little project. 

Incidentally, I ask 3- 5 grade to do book talks each year and they get a bit more involved as they get older.

Thanks so much for your support,
Mrs. G

Monday, March 13, 2017

This Week in 3rd Grade



Recess Fun!

This week in art, we got our clay pots back from the kiln.  Check out our great work!

Amazing Artists


Monday, March 6, 2017

March Newsletter

LITERACY:
The passage from our Metacognition News on the blog seems to describe synthesizing perfectly: “Synthesizing takes the process of summarizing one step further. Instead of just restating the important points from text, synthesizing involves combining ideas and allowing an evolving understanding of text. Synthesizing is creating original insights, perspectives, and understandings by reflecting on text(s) and merging elements from text and existing schema.” Synthesizing requires the use of many strategies learned throughout the year. We will focus on this strategy in April. During this time, students will be learning how to identify multiple perspectives while creating opinions or arguments. Students will also practice identifying the theme or big idea of a piece. They will then communicate text evidence used to support the theme or big idea. Synthesizing also requires readers to use evidence from the text in support of personal meaning. We will encourage students to communicate how their thinking evolves from the beginning to the end of a passage or unit of study.


Opinion Writing:

In writing we have started to work on Opinion Writing. To start the unit, third graders have created bold opinions and written them in a form of a thesis statement. Students have learned that persuasive writers look at their world and imagine how it could be better to grow ideas for possible writing projects. We have looked for problems that needed to be addressed and imagined solutions. Students are really enjoying that their voices are being heard and that they are starting to learn how to justify their opinions to persuade others.  
Math: Parts of a Whole Can Be Modeled and Represented in Different Ways 

Students have begun to develop an understanding of fractions as numbers. We will begin to start solving problems, describing fractions as numbers on a number line, and explaining equivalence of fractions. Through all activities, our class is using critical thinking to make sense of problems and demonstrating resiliency when persevering in solving them. This requires them to interpret, evaluate, summarize and synthesize every day!

Social Studies: Civics

 Students will learn the important roles of citizenship and the difference between their rights, roles and responsibilities. Along with this, we will discuss the basics of local government. Some of these mini lessons include; an introduction of our laws, the process of how laws get passed, types of consequences for decisions made for following/not following the law and how they can play a role in their community to name a few.  

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 8: Parent Teacher Conferences
March 15: Parent Teacher Conferences
March 17-April 2: Spring Break
April 4-6-: PARCC Literacy Testing (8:50am-10:20am) 
April 10-13:PARCC Math Testing (1:15-2:15)

May Newsletter

Literacy Read & Writing: Poetry Throughout National Poetry Month, we read all types of poetry; rhyming poems, haikus...