| Reminders: Book Fair Preview – Tuesday, November 10 Book Fair Buying – Friday, November 13 New Prospect’s School Governance Council is currently working on ways to effectively implement the Project Based Learning (PBL) element of our Strategic Plan. One way they intend to do so is by investing in training for teachers in PBL from the Buck Institute for Education. Part of this investment is asking for a Request for Flexibility (RFF) for the 2016-2017 school year to have 4 full release days where students will not attend school so that the teachers may participate in this highly effective and recommended training. More details about the RFF and the full release days will be communicated at a later date, but at this time, the SGC has prepared a brochure for our school community to provide information about PBL and the Buck Institute. Please download the attachment to see this brochure. Happy Halloween! Reading – We will be continuing our study on fables, folktales, and myths. We started to look at summarizing towards the end of the week. This can be a challenge for students because many either copy random sentences from a story or they do not give enough detail. We will continue to focus on how to summarize fables, folktales, and myths. We will have our test for this unit the week of November 9. Writing – We will be focused on informational writing for the next several weeks. Students have decided to write a book on a topic that they believe they are experts on. This week we focused on how we can structure these books by creating a table of contents for their book. Math - Next week we will be reviewing multiplication and division. On Tuesday, November 3, we will have a distributive property quiz. Students should have taken home their math notebooks home to study. The test for this unit will be on Monday, November 9. Please continue to practice multiplication facts at home. Starting on Friday, students will be taking a multiplication quiz each Friday. The facts will all be mixed together as they should now know all their facts. Social Studies – We began our unit on Economics this week. We will continue to work with this unit for the next couple weeks. We will have an economics vocabulary quiz towards the end of next week. |
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We made it through ITBS!! Yay! The kids did great – we will be getting scores back before winter break. Next Week – Red Ribbon Week
Reading – We will be continuing our study on fables, folktales, and myths. We will be focused on the theme of the stories and the lesson that the story is trying to teach. We will also be looking at how to summarize what we are reading. Writing – We will be focused on informational writing for the next several weeks. Math - Next week we will be focusing on division. We will start by teaching repeated subtraction and by drawing pictures to solve division problems. Please continue to practice multiplication facts at home. We will have our quiz on 7s and 8s on Friday, October 30. Social Studies – Our next unit is Economy. We will be starting this unit on Tuesday. GAT Day – Third grade will be starting our “GAT” program on Monday. This Monday, students will be creating a school store. We will be interviewing students in different grades to determine which items students would like to see in a school store. We will then graph our results, determine how much we would need to sell each item for in order to make a profit, and create a “business plan” to show to Mrs. Robson.
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10/12 – No School 10/19 – 10/23 – ITBS – parents will not be allowed in the building (for volunteering or to have lunch with your child) during this week because of standardized testing. Reading: Next week we will begin our unit on folktales and myths. You will receive your child’s reading test that they took on Thursday sometime next week. Students are now required to fill out a reading log each week. They will need to read at least 4 days for 20 minutes each day. This week's reading log is on yellow paper in your child's homework folder. Writing: Next week we will have our Author’s Celebration for our personal narratives that we wrote. We will also begin our informational writing unit. Math: Please remember that if I do not teach your child math, you will need to check your child’s math teacher’s blog for information and updates. Here is the schedule for the next two quizzes: 10/16 – 3s, 4s, and 6s facts. 10/23 – 7s and 8s facts. Next week we will be looking at the distributive property of multiplication. 6 x 9 = (6 x 3) + (6 x 6) Please have your child practicing their multiplication facts. You can do this through flash cards or by completing the IXL multiplication activities. Science: Next week we will finish up our pollution unit. We will have a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday, October 14. We will not have a test for this short unit. Instead, we will have kids work in groups to create posters on air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution. Reminders
10/7 – Field Trip - Parents if your student is bringing their lunch please make sure to send their lunch in disposable items (ex. Brown bags, Ziplocs, etc.) We will make sure their name is on it that morning. We will give them their red t-shirt Wednesday morning. If you didn’t buy a shirt, no worries. We have one your child can borrow for the day. Please make sure to be on time that morning. As of now, the weather looks good! Let’s hope for no more rain : ) 10/8 – Picture Retake 10/9 – No School 10/12 – No School 10/19 – 10/23 – ITBS – parents will not be allowed in the building (for volunteering or to have lunch with your child) during this week because of standardized testing. Reading: Our test for this unit will be Thursday, October 8. The test will cover main idea and details, cause and effect, and sequence. Students are now required to fill out a reading log each week. They will need to read at least 4 days for 20 minutes each day. This week's reading log is on a pick paper in your child's homework folder. Writing: Next week we will finish up our narrative writing unit. Students will publish a final piece that will include everything we learned during this unit. Math: Please remember that if I do not teach your child math, you will need to check your child’s math teacher’s blog for information and updates. We took our first multiplication quiz today. Starting next week these quizzes will be timed as students need to have their facts memorized. Here is the schedule for the next three quizzes: 10/8 – 0s, 1s, and 9s facts. 10/16 – 3s, 4s, and 6s facts. 10/23 – 7s and 8s facts. Next week we will be looking at: 1. Communicative Property - 3x4 is the same as 4x3 2 Identity Property - any number multiplied by 1 is that number 5x1 = 5, 7x1 = 7 3. Associative Property - (6x5) x 7 = 6 x (5x7). Social Studies: The Democracy Test will be Monday, October 5 (TAG students will take the test before they leave for the day). Everything that the students need to study is highlighted in their interactive notebook. |
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