Newsletter Week of November 20th

Week of November 20th-24th

In 3AH the students have been working hard in our new math unit: The Relationship Between Multiplication and Division. It was a unit that many of the students were eager to begin. This unit will be continuing after the winter break.

Please look over your child’s math assessment that was sent home this weekend. Please sign the front cover and return the assessment on Monday.

A friendly reminder to check your child’s blog. They have been commenting on their peers posts. It would be wonderful if you also commented on your child’s work and posts.

This Friday is a Free Dress Day. If your child will participate, please remember to send 5RM with them.

This week will begin on Day 5

Reading Students will continue to build on their knowledge of biographies. Students will think about biographies with a new lens. They will try using one lens to understand the story and the other lens to learn new information. As students read they ask themselves “what information am I learning here? What is the main idea and what are the key details? What boxes and bullets could I make?”

Writing Students will study mentor texts to see how authors have written their introductions. We will revise our writing pieces by including new introductions that we learned from our mentor texts. We will also work on setting new goals for the rest of this unit.

Math Students will continue to work on sorting objects into equal groups. For example, here are 20 beans. How could you sort them so that each group has an equal number of beans? How many different ways could you group them? We will also use the number line and arrays to solve multiplication problems.

Science This week we will have investigations about animal adaptations. We will be examining the concept of how an adaptation helps an animal survive in an ecosystem.

November 20th-24th, 2017- Choose 2 activities to complete before Friday to share in class.

Math: Write your own multiplication number story? Then solve it. Explain your thinking in pictures, numbers, and words.	Language arts: Read an informational book or chapter. What was the main idea? What were the supporting details? Write them down using boxes and bullets.	Language arts: You are a worm, living in a compost bin. Write a fiction story describing what your life is like.
Math: Practice skip counting by 2,3,4, 5, and 10. Time yourself to see how fast you can do it. Write your best times in your home learning journal.	Science Design a new made up animal. What is its habitat? What adaptations does it have that help it survive there?	Other: Play a board game or card game with your family.

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