Miss Branchick's Newsletter
March 7-11, 2016
Homework this week
Reading packets are a review.
4 pages of Rocket Math need to be turned in by Friday for all students who have not mastered all four operations yet this year.
Marshmallow Challenge
Marshmallow Challenge
Marshmallow Challenge
IREAD3 Next Week
- Monday- 9:45-10:24am
- Tuesday- 9:45-10:30am
- Wednesday- 9:45-10:27am
Please make sure your child gets plenty of sleep each night and if possible does not miss school. There is a much smaller window for IREAD than ISTEP. If your child does not take the test or all parts of the test they will have to retest in June.
A Sign-up link should have been sent out to you all about donating snacks for IREAD. This is all optional but there were a lot of students without snacks during ISTEP and I am hoping to avoid that this round of testing. Thanks in advance for your generosity!
Results will get back to the school around Spring Break and will most likely come home after break.
This week in room 506
Math-
Miss Branchick's Math Class
We have finished the final unit in third grade. This week is ALL review due to shortened math block times. Students are working on Benchmark Tests for review and pages in their workbook.
We will take the End of the Year test on Thursday. Students are expected to score at a 90% or higher to demonstrate mastery of the entire year. Students who score below 90% mastery will be given reteaching pages for each lesson they need to review.
Information about starting 4th grade math will be coming soon!
Social Studies:
Social studies has been put on hold this week due to ISTEP and finishing the test for homework.
Standards:
3.2.1- Discuss reasons for government and identify the goods and services they provide.
3.2.2- Know the significance of democratic principles and ideals.
3.2.3- Explain the duties of local and state government officials who make, implement and enforce laws
3.2.4- Explain that the U.S. has three levels of government, each with special duties and responsibilities.
Writing:
Writing has been put on hold this week due to ISTEP. Students will be free writing during our writing block.
Reading-
Unit 4 Week 5
- Strategy: Reread
- Skill: Theme
- Genre: Poetry
- Literary Elements: Repetition and Rhyme
- Vocab: Metaphors
- Phonics: soft c and g; words with -er and -est
Vocabulary:
1. adventurous- Someone who is adventurous is willing to risk danger in order to have exciting or unusual experiences.
2. courageous- People who are courageous are brave.
3. extremely- Extremely means the same as "very".
4. weird- Something that is weird is strange or mysterious.
5. free verse- Free verse poems that sometimes rhyme, and sometimes don't- they are free to do what they want.
6. narrative poem- A narrative poem tells a story
7. repetition- Using the same word several times in a poem is called repetition.
8. rhyme- The words night and right rhyme because they end in the same sounds.
Spelling Words:
1.peaceful
2. placed
3. officer
4. changes
5. garage
6. pounce
7. cents
8. Egypt
9. gently
10. cabbage
11. office
12. citizen
13. pages
14. message
15. giant
Websites
- ScootPad
- TenMarks
- Acuity
- Tumblebooks (username northelementary / password books)
- MasteryConnect
- Symbaloo (username kbranchick@danville.k12.in.us / password room506) - this website has links to kid approved websites we use at school)
- IXL - a great website for students to practice skills from any subject!
Tumblebooks is registered for grades K-4 so North and South share.