April 11-15, 2016
Third Grade News
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Report Cards - April 12th
Reading Assessment - April 15th
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Honor Roll Celebration - May 3rd
This Week's Learning Topics:
Math Topics:
3.MD.5 Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
3.MD.6 Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).
3.MD.7 Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
I Can:
What will we learn?
This week students will continue using multiplication to find the area of regular and irregular shapes. Sections to focus this week on IXL are V.10-V.16.
Reading Topics
RI.3.9
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
I Can:
What Will We Learn?
Science and Social Studies
3.E.1 Understand how the location of regions affects activity in a market economy.
3.E.2 Understand entrepreneurship in a market economy.
3.L.2 Understand how plants survive in their environments.I Can:
I can determine the relationship between economics and agriculture in my community.
What will we learn?
In the first part of the week, students will learn about the plant parts and the plant life cycle. Later in the week they will experiment with 3 main soil types. In addition to studying the observation properties of the soils. students will conduct experiments that are geared to answer the question, "Which soil would you rather use?"