Hard to believe the end of December is fast approaching. I wanted to send a few reminders before the 19th is here.
1. Please remember to have students reading at home. As I have mentioned before many times, students in 3rd grade do not have a lot of homework but are expected to be reading at home. With that, remember that students can participate in the Book It program encouraging reading and earning a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. November calendars were due last week and December calendars can be returned on the 19th or after the first of the new year. Keep reading!
2. 3rd grade students should have brought home their recent math assessment over unit 1 last week, adding and subtracting large numbers. With that, there was a note from me and a review packet sent home. If you did not see on and you are a parent of a 3rd grade student, ask them about it or contact me. Continue to keep reviewing addition and subtraction of large number.
3. We are finishing up our literacy unit next week focusing on the strategies and skills of text structure, predicting, summarizing, contractions, compound words, and recognizing figurative language uses of similes and idioms. Our theme has focused on science so it is a nice way to cover science across the curriculum as well. We will do a quick assessment right before the break and return ready to start theme 3.
4. Our current math unit is on measurement. While measuring to the nearest inch and half inch appear simple for students, measuring to the nearest 1/4 inch is more challenging for many. We will continue to work on this as well as move into perimeter and area before the break.
5. This week we are interrupting social studies to do some coding for the Hour of Code, which starts today. I will be posting information about that during the week as well. Next week we will wrap up our social studies unit on Communities with a project based assessment.
6. Parents, please remember to send boots and snow pants with your 3B student even if there is not a lot of snow outside. Students are coming in wet from recess when they don't have the necessary clothing and then have to sit all afternoon in wet clothes. The playground is pretty muddy and wet so boots are appreciated.
As always, we are busy in 3B!
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