This Week in Third Grade
Learnings, Happenings, and Announcements
Meet Your Third Grade Team!
Ms. Colucci, Room 310
Mr. Oliver, Room 311
Mrs. Snow, Room 312
Mrs. Duty, Room 313
Thank you!
We've reached our goal and have purchased brand new brain games for third grade, thanks to your awesome donations! YAY!
We appreciate your support!
Announcements
October 9th- MAP Window Closes
October 12th- Smithfield Lockdown PRACTICE
DIBELS and TRC testing will continue until October 12th.
October 18th - All Day Planning
October 19th- Fall Picture Day
October 24th - Permission forms for our first field trip to the James K. Polk Historic Site are due.
Oct 31- Parent Teacher Conferences
Reading
This week in reading, students will finish their first literacy playlist. This playlist will engage students in learning standard RL 3.3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. Students will be quizzed on RL 3.3 this week.
Students will also continue to engage in a read aloud of Stone Fox.
Students will begin learning RL 3.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, identifying words that impact the meaning in a text. They will work to identify and make meaning of figurative language in a text using mentor texts such as the Amelia Bedelia books.
Writing & Words Their Way
Students will work toward publishing their personal narratives this week.
Students will begin their first Words Their Way sort. The whole class will work with a sort about contractions (wouldn't, should've, etc.) to learn about how Words Their Way is done in third grade.
Math
OA.2- For whole-number quotients of whole numbers with a one-digit divisor and a one-digit quotient: • Interpret the divisor and quotient in a division equation as representing the number of equal groups and the number of objects in each group. • Illustrate and explain strategies including arrays, repeated addition or subtraction, and decomposing a factor.
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OA.3- Represent, interpret, and solve one-step problems involving multiplication and division. • Solve multiplication word problems with factors up to and including 10. Represent the problem using arrays, pictures, and/or equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. • Solve division word problems with a divisor and quotient up to and including 10. Represent the problem using arrays, pictures, repeated subtraction and/or equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Students can practice at home by practicing multiplication and division facts involving numbers up to and including 10. (ex: 7x4, 5x5, 18/6, 20/2).