Here's what you can ask your 3rd grader about:
* Starting off our day with morning work - analogies, brain teasers and handwriting practice
* Starting "Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions" 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 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
* Starting our Persuasive Text writing
* Reviewing reading strategies - interpreting figurative language, distinguishing between real and make-believe
* Reading Treasures stories called "Castle on Viola Street" (realistic fiction) "Out of the World" (biography) and working on reading comprehension skills
* Starting poetry
* Reading "What's in the Sky?" for guided reading
* Building vocabulary by reviewing the prefixes ex- (out), sub- (under, below), co- and con- (with, together), in-, il- im- (not)
* Continuing with 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 - graded papers were sent home for signatures
* Getting more math practice on Moby Max and Zearn
* Doing MARS task called "Clubhouse Plans" (using area and perimeter)
* Continuing to keep up with current events with Time for Kids
* Learning to solve problems during 2nd Step
* Reading with our first grade buddies
Upcoming Events and Dates:
* 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 over the next 2 weeks.
* Tuesday, May 2nd is the Learning Goal Fair is 6:30-7:30pm.
* 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.
