Here's what you can ask your 3rd grader about:
* Starting off our day with morning work - analogies, brain teasers, handwriting and reading
* Taking the winter MAP test in reading and math
* Enjoying an Opera for the Young performance titled "The Elixir of Love"
* Continuing language arts homework with the blue "Main Idea and Summarizing" booklets and working on finding the main idea and supporting detail of a short nonfiction text
* Practicing reading comprehension and skills as well as building vocabulary on MobyMax
* Working on the reading strategy of drawing conclusions and making inferences
* Reading a story titled "Galileo: The Man Who Loved to Learn" and working with two-part comprehension questions as well as cause-effect and making inferences(RI.2, RI.3, RI.7)
* Reading informational text and responding to comprehension questions in our purple books
* Starting our Chicago history unit with the Great Chicago Fire in social studies by reading the historical fiction novel, "I Survived the Great Chicago Fire,"
* Watching an interview with the author of the novel to learn about her research process as well as factual background information on the Fire
* Building vocabulary by learning about the prefix im-, il-
* Continuing grammar with action verbs
* Continuing spelling with contractions and r-controlled vowels (er, ir, ur)
* Determining our table of contents for the informational writing books in progress during writer's workshop
* Continuing with current events as part of social studies with Time for Kids
* Continuing module 3 in math by using the commutative property to find facts (OA.5), using the distributive property to solve facts (OA.5), using the strategy of making ten to find facts (OA.5), determining the unknown in a multiplication and division equation (OA.4), multiplying and dividing within 100 (OA.7)
* Warming up with sprints, fluency practice and math talks during math
* Getting more math practice on Moby Max, Zearn and Tenmarks
* Doing MARS task called "Patio Plants" (this problem gives students a chance to solve everyday problems)
* Continuing with Typing Training to learn keyboarding
* Learning to manage test anxiety and handle accusations during 2nd Step
Upcoming Events and Dates:
* Friday, January 27th is Institute Day. There is no school for the students.
* Saturday, February 4th is the Lincoln Carnival.
* Friday, February 10th is our field trip to see the play, "The One Hundred Dresses." Please look for the permission slip to come home soon.
* Thursday, February 16th and Friday, February 17th are half-days of school due to conferences taking place that week. An electronic sign-up for conferences was sent out this morning. Thank you in advance!
