Ms. Vega’s Third Grade News
April 27, 2015
This week…
*Reading: Students will continue and wrap up their novel
study-“Sarah, Plain and Tall.” 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.” To
finalize our novel study, half of the students will work on a timeline of “Sarah,
Plain and Tall.” While the other half of
students work on murals they create that reflect important events, symbols, and
or themes in our novel. Wordly
Wise words for this week are: graduate,
frustrate, vigorous, stresses, urges, prank, diagram, primary, vacant, risky.
*Writing: Students will continue
working on their informational writing pieces.
Students will develop 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 object pronouns.
*Math: Students will take a unit five quiz on lessons 5.1-5.5. Students will work on modeling
decimals with base-10 blocks and grids to model tenths and hundredths and write
money amounts in dollars-and-cents notation; read and write decimal numbers
through hundredths. Students will use
base-10 blocks and grids to represent decimal and fraction equivalencies. Students will also compare and order decimals.
*Social Studies: Students will also continue, “touring” the Midwest
Region. Students will write a letter
reflecting on their tour of the Midwest Region.
*Science: Students will continue their unit on Plant Pals from
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
Reminders:
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Science Fair preparation has begun! Please see the packet that was sent home on Thursday
regarding expectations, due dates, and date of science fair. If you have any questions feel free to
contact me. On Tuesday, April 28th
students will need to turn in their completed project proposal sheet. Friday, May 1st students will need
to turn in their completed research plan and hypothesis. I will go through the components of the
research plan and hypothesis on Monday and Tuesday. I will also show students samples of
completed research plans and hypothesis to give them a better understanding of
what is expected.
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Students should be practicing their math facts everyday!!
Students should be building fact power with addition, subtraction, and
multiplication facts!!! Students may do flashcards, games online, Think Through
Math, or any other type of fact practice.
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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:
If
you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me!
Thank
you,
Ms.
Vega
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