Newsletter Week of October 11th

Week of October 11th-13th

Hello, 3AH parents. It was a busy week in the class. We were finishing our units in Reading, Writing and Social Studies. We also were preparing for our conferences. We will be sharing with you a piece of writing from the beginning of the year and the piece they finished this week. I was really impressed with the growth they have shown thus far!

As our narrative writing unit came to an end last week, students had the opportunity to share their stories with a variety of different third-grade students, both in their class and in other grade three classes. They enjoyed being able to share, as well as give and receive feedback. Students are encouraged to continue writing personal narrative stories at home and bring them to class to share.

It is not too late to bring in cardboard! We need as much as we can get for our Cardboard Challenge taking place on Wednesday, October 11th.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, we look forward to seeing you AND your child for Conferences! It is a great opportunity for us to have a conversation about your child’s progress thus far and set goals together.

This week will begin on Day 5.

Reading During this shortened week, we will transition toward information/nonfiction reading, with the first focus being on finding the main ideas of the text and text structures. Students will be accessing their prior knowledge of this genre and tapping into topics of interest.

Writing The informational writing unit will be taught in conjunction with our information reading unit. Although this is not a unit where the focus is on researching to write, rather the students will use informational writing strategies as they compose texts about subjects they already know well. This week will give the students the chance to show what they already know about the genre. Students will also begin to develop plans for how to organize their writing.

Math We will continue to use rounding as an estimation strategy by introducing rounding to the nearest 100. Students will continue to show different ways of proving their thinking by using a number line, using benchmark numbers, and finding halfway numbers. As always the parent learning connection has ideas for you in math and reading/writing here.

Social Studies  This week will mark the end of our Mapping and Landforms unit. Students will get an opportunity to share and celebrate the maps that they have created (landform, resource, climate, and population) as well as analyze and ask questions about the maps created by others.

October 10-17th 2016- Choose 2 activities to complete before next Tuesday to share in class.

Math: Explain and show an adult how to round 343 656 to the nearest hundred. Explain and show an adult how to round 343 656 to the nearest ten.	Language arts: What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction? Show what you know by making a list, brain frame, T-chart or anything else to show your thinking.	Language arts: Read a nonfiction book. Write down as many different text features as you can find and their examples. (example: caption, label glossary)
Math: Roll a dice 3 times to make a 3 digit number. Round that number to the nearest 100 (write it down). Do this 5 times.	Science: Draw a picture of what you think an ecosystem looks like. Label your drawing.	Other: Clean/tidy up a room in your house that is not your bedroom

• Remember: Reading is just what we do. It is expected each night.

We recommend that students do typingweb.com at home for additional typing practice!