Here's what you can ask your 3rd grader about:
* Starting off our day with morning work - analogies, brain teasers and word benders
* Finishing "Main Idea and Summarizing" language arts homework books - students enjoyed reading the informational text paragraphs and practicing the skill of summarizing
* Practicing reading comprehension and skills as well as building vocabulary on MobyMax
* Finishing our Chicago Fire unit with the research simulation task - students used multiple sources to research, take notes and create a google presentation about the fire. Students received feedback via email from me and brought home their rubrics for the project.
* Getting really close to finishing our Informational Text writing unit with our chapter books - students chose the topic they wanted to learn more about and created a chapter book using google docs
* Reviewing reading strategies - identifying author's purpose
* Building vocabulary by learning about the prefixes ex- (out), sub- (under, below), co- and con- (with, together)
* Continuing grammar with subject-verb agreement
* Continuing spelling with prefixes (re-, un-, pre-, mis-), words with oi and oy)
* Finishing module 3 with the End of Module Assessment (OA.3, OA.4, OA.5, OA.7, OA.8, OA.9, NBT.3) and doing self-reflections with these summative assessments - when the assessments go home after break, please remember to sign and return the graded assessments
* Learning order of operations (PEMDAS)
* Starting Module 4 (Area - MD.5, MD.6, MD.7) by understanding area as an attribute of plane figures, decomposing and recomposing shapes to compare areas, relating side lengths with the number of tiles on a side, interpreting area models to form rectangular arrays and finding the area of a rectangle through multiplication of the side length
* Taking the Module 4 Mid-Module Task
* Getting more math practice on Moby Max and Zearn
* Doing MARS task called "Finding the Missing Numbers" (use number operations), "Basketball Scores" (solve number problems)
* Doing the "Water and Climate" unit in science - doing investigations+tutorials, watching videos and reading texts to learn about water, weather, climate
* Continuing to keep up with current events with our Time for Kids subscription
* Learning to solve problems during 2nd Step
* Reading with our first grade buddies
Upcoming Events and Dates:
* Friday, March 24th is the day report cards go home and the start of spring break.
* Monday, April 3rd is the first day of school after spring break.
* Tuesday, April 4th is Institute Day. There is no school for students.
* Friday, April 7th is Lincoln School's SpellCheck. Information, lists and buttons went home today.
* Friday, April 14th is a day off from school.
* Monday, April 17th is the due date for the Learning Goal Project. Students will present their projects to an audience of their peers throughout the week.
* Tuesday, May 2nd is the Learning Goal Fair in the evening. Look for more details closer to the event.
* Wednesday, May 31st is the 3rd Grade Picnic at Maple Park. Look for more information closer to the event.
* Thursday, June 1st is our last field trip. Look for more information closer to the field trip.
* Tuesday, June 6th is Olympic Day.
* Wednesday, June 7th is the last day of school.
