Ms. Vega’s Third Grade News
April 13, 2015
This week…
*Reading: Students will begin a novel study-“Sarah, Plain and Tall.” Students will build background knowledge
in preparation for our novel. Students
will discuss the meaning of home; discuss differences between New England and
Kansas, and work on vocabulary for “Sarah, Plain and Tall.” By end of week, students will have read up to
chapter 4. Students will work on predicting,
inferring, summarizing, monitoring and clarifying, comparing and contrasting,
questioning, and evaluating throughout our novel study on “Sarah, Plain and
Tall.” Wordly Wise words for this week
are: cable, cathedral, convey, device, freight, landmark, method, rod,
shaft, structure.
*Writing: Students will continue
working on developing their informational writing pieces. Students will continue developing their
topics and their sections/chapters using a variety of structures (chronological
order, compare and contrast, annotated diagram, etc…). In grammar, students will focus on subject
pronouns.
*Math: Students will begin unit 5. Unit 5 focuses on place value in whole
numbers and decimals. Students will
review place value up to 5-digit whole numbers.
Students will read, write, compare, and order these numbers before they
begin to explore larger numbers. To understand real-life applications of larger
numbers, students will study population data about U.S. cities. Students will also approximate their own ages
to the minute.
*Social Studies: Students will be skipping to chapter 8, which
focuses on the Midwest Region. Students
will be introduced to the states and capitals that make up the Midwest
Region. Students will learn and practice
identifying the states and capitals of the Midwest Region.
*Science: Students will begin Plant Pals second week of fourth
quarter.
Reminders:
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Please sign up for a 10 minute conference to discuss your
child’s progress on Thursday, April 16th if you haven’t already done
so.
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Report Card Pick Up Day is Thursday, April 16th
These will only be 10-minute conferences. If you know
you are going to need more than 10 minutes please let me know so we can
reschedule. I want to be respectful of each person’s time.
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Published Young Authors are due Friday, April 17th
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Weather permitting; students will go outside for recess, please
make sure your child is dressed appropriately!
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Please make sure your child wears gym shoes on Thursdays and
Fridays!
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Homework is always dependent on what we get done in class that
day! Please refer to your child’s agenda for the most up to date homework
assignments!!!
CLASSROOM BLOG/Quad-Blogging Update:
We did a fantastic job commenting on the blogs of our fellow
bloggers!! We will continue posting our
happenings on our blog! Feel free to comment on our blog or have your
child comment as well. When your child
is commenting on our blog or one of the other classroom blogs please remind
them of the following “Good Blogger Tips”:
Good Bloggers:
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use only their first name or initials and never their
whole name
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always say where they are from
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never post pictures of classmates without the teacher’s
permission
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don’t reveal personal information like their address or phone
number
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never pretend you are someone else on a blog
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write sentences with capital letters and proper punctuation
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are polite! We can offer “praises” and “pushes” but should
never try to hurt someone’s feelings
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are positive and have fun!
Additional awesome tips from Mr. Gasciogne on how to leave a
quality comment:
1. Compliment the writer in a specific way.
2. Add new information
3. Make a connection
4. End with a question.
5. Proofread your comment
If you have any questions or concerns, please
feel free to contact me!
Thank
you,
Ms.
Vega
Cant't wait for spirit week!
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