Here's what you can ask your 3rd grader about:
* Starting off our day with morning work - analogies, brain teasers and handwriting practice
* Taking the MAP Reading Test
* Continuing with "Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions" language arts homework books - students have expressed that they are really enjoying practicing the skill of making inferences
* Doing learning goal presentations and teaching each other about lots of interesting topics
* Practicing reading comprehension and skills as well as building vocabulary on MobyMax
* Continuing with Persuasive Text writing with mini-lessons on developing ideas, writing a thesis, gathering reasons and evidence to support your thesis, and considering your audience
* Listening to persuasive speakers who are noteworthy and help others like Barack Obama and Malala Yousafzai
* Reading articles, establishing our viewpoint/opinion and organizing our ideas in Persuasion Map about unrecycled plastics in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and whether smarter school designs help kids to be more active and healthier
* Starting our culminating persuasive writing assignment on the Great Chocolate Milk Debate - Should chocolate milk be allowed in school lunches?
* Continuing poetry with learning about different types of figurative language
* Reading a variety of poems, distinguishing between similes and metaphors
* Completing Module 4 (Area - MD.5, MD.6, MD.7) with the End-of-Module Task
* Starting Module 5 on Fractions - G.2 (partitioning shapes into equal parts), NF.1 (understanding a fraction as part of a whole), NF.3 (comparing fractions)
* Starting our unit on economics in social studies (saving for college, advice from the sharks, stock market)
* Getting more math practice on Moby Max and Zearn
* Continuing to keep up with current events with Time for Kids
* Learning about negative peer pressure and solving problems in class during 2nd Step
* Reading with our first grade buddies
Upcoming Events and Dates:
* 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. Permission slips are due May 5th.
* Tuesday, June 6th is Olympic Day.
* Wednesday, June 7th is the last day of school.
