Weekly Newsletter week of January 29th

Good morning 3AH parents, 

What a busy week we had in Grade 3. Students were busy brainstorming questions to answer and projects to create for Genius Hour. It is great to see their creative juices flowing! This will be a shorter week starting on day 2, with Wednesday a day off for Thaipusam. 

Reading

This week students will continue to research their book club topic and share their findings with a group. Students will learn how to keep a book club conversation going by adding on to others ideas and asking questions. 

Writing

Students will continue to work on saying more about each of their reasons. Students will learn that when writers write to convince someone they only put in their best, most convincing evidence. We will also begin to use paragraphs as a way to organize their reasons.

Math

We are continuing to work on finding the area of rectangles. Students will learn about the distributive property as a way to solve area problems and as a strategy to multiply using base 10 blocks. Take a look at this progression video to see how we do this. 

Social Studies

We are lucky to have 2 parent experts come in and speak with grade 3. The topics will be archeology and the legacies that ancient civilizations leave us. 

January 29th- February 2nd. Choose 2 activities to complete before Friday to share in class.

Math:

• Roll 2 dice to find the factors (3, 7) Multiply and make an array or area model to find the product. Repeat until your products add to 100. 

AND/OR

• If you know 2x6=12 how will that help you solve 4x6? Explain to someone.

Language Arts: 

• Would you rather be an archeologist or a veterinarian? Give reasons and say more to explain.

AND/OR

• Write a story where the villain is actually a hero.

Social Studies

Write down 2 things you learned from the grade 3 expert parents who came in this week. 

Other: Make a grocery list of things needed for a meal your family is eating this week. Then, go and get those items with an adult. After, make that meal! 

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