Here's what you can ask your 3rd grader about:
* Starting off our day with morning work - analogies, brain teasers, PARCC math questions
* Continuing language arts homework with the blue "Main Idea and Summarizing" booklets and practicing summarizing with main idea and key details
* Practicing reading comprehension and skills as well as building vocabulary on MobyMax
* Reading an information text titled "Making Good Use of Garbage" and working with two-part questions about main idea, meaning of words in context and summarizing (RI.1, RI.2, RI.4)
* Reading a fairy tale titled "The Princess on the Mountaintop" and working with two-part questions about characters, meaning of words in context and comprehension (RL.1, RL.3, RL.4)
* Reading an informational text titled "What is Pluto?" and working with two-part questions about main idea, author's purpose, meaning of words in context and writing a brief contrast/compare essay (RI.1, RI.2, RI.4, RI.6)
* Reading the book titled "The Other Side" and doing a narrative writing task (RL.1, RL.3, RL.5, RL.6, RL.10)
* Doing our second assignment on Google classroom - a research simulation task on the Great Chicago Fire
* Creating a multimedia presentation on the Great Chicago Fire by collecting information from resources that include videos, an interactive website and an article (RI.1, RI.2, RI.4, RI.5, RI.9, W.6, W.7, W.8, L.2, L.6)
* Researching and writing our informational writing books on Google docs during writer's workshop
* Continuing module 3 in math by using multiplication and division within 100 to solve problems (OA.3), determining the unknown in a multiplication and division equation (OA.4), using the commutative property to find facts (OA.5), using the distributive property to solve facts (OA.5), using the associative property of multiplication (OA.5), using the strategy of making ten to find facts (OA.5), multiplying and dividing within 100 (OA.7), solving two-step problems (OA.8), finding patterns in multiplication tables (OA.9)
* Taking Mid-Module Task (OA.3, OA.4, OA.5, OA.9) and doing self-reflections with these formative assessments - please remember to sign and return the graded assessments
* Warming up with sprints, fluency practice and math talks during math
* Getting more math practice on Moby Max and Zearn
* Doing MARS task called "Toys for Sale" (this problem gives students a chance to solve everyday problems)
* Continuing with Typing Training to learn keyboarding
* Learning to manage anger and hurt feelings during 2nd Step
Upcoming Events and Dates:
* Monday, March 6th is the start of PARCC testing for 3rd grade.
* Friday, March 10th is the end of Trimester 2.
* Friday, March 24th is the day report cards go home and the start of spring break.
