3rd Grade News
Ridgeview Elementary
Week of April 24-28, 2017
What We Are Learning
ELA
Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
describe the interaction of characters including their relationships and the changes they undergo
analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
-draw conclusions from the facts presented in text and support those assertions with textual evidence
Math
Review
-represent multiplication facts by using a variety of approaches such as repeated addition, equal-sized groups, arrays, area models, equal jumps on a number line, and skip counting
- use strategies and algorithms, including the standard algorithm, to multiply a two-digit number by a one digit number. Strategies may include mental math, partial products, and the commutative, associative, and distributive properties
- represent one- and two-step problems involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers to 1,000 using pictorial models, number lines, and equations
- represent real-world relationships using number pairs in a table and verbal descriptions
- decompose composite figures formed by rectangles into non-overlapping rectangles to determine the area of the original figure using the additive property of are
- determine the perimeter of a polygon or a missing length when given perimeter and remaining side lengths in problems
- solve one- and two-step problems using categorical data represented with a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals
Science
- explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment
-explore that some characteristics of organisms are inherited such as the number of limbs on an animal or flower color and recognize that some behaviors are learned in response to living in a certain environment such as animals using tools to get food (Inherited vs. Learned Traits)
-investigate and compare how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes in their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, and lady bugs
Social Studies
- identify and compare the human characteristics of various regions
PENNIES FOR PATIENTS
Every 3 minutes someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer and every 10 minutes someone loses their battle. Thanks to the support of people like you, doctors are getting closer to finding a cure every day! In the 1960’s the 5-year survival rate for children under the age of 20 with ALL (the most common form of leukemia) went from a mere 3% to nearly 95% today! Your support is critical to help us find a cure and I hope you will join us in the fight against blood cancers!!!
Ridgeview is participating in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Pennies for Patients program; a service-learning program that gives students the unique experience of working together to help raise awareness and funds in honor of thousands of children and adults fighting against blood cancers! We are asking that everyone at Ridgeview join in this effort of raising awareness and collecting funds to benefit the mission of LLS: to find cures for blood cancers and to improve the quality of life for patient and their families.
Our LLS program will start on April 10th and will end on the 21st. Thank you for your support. Here is the school link: http://events.lls.org/pages/ntx/Ridgeview-Elementary-School-Keller-2017. Look for your child's classroom to donate to their class.
Important Dates
April 21
Ridgeview Movie Night - Monsters, Inc. @ 7:00 pm
May 8
3rd Grade Math STAAR Test
May 9
3rd Grade Reading STAAR Test
May 18
Open House/Fine Arts Night