Grade 3 News
Newsletter #2: How We Organize Ourselves
UOI 1: How We Organize Ourselves
Transdisciplinary Theme:
An inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities; the structure and function of organizations; societal decision-making; economic activities and their impact on humankind and the environment.
Central idea: Local government systems impact the lives of citizens.
Key concepts: function, perspective, responsibility
Related concepts: systems, local government, representation, power, justice, rights
Lines of inquiry
- Local branches of government and state elected and appointed officials (voting process, function of govt/officials) (Function)
- Government systems influence the lives of citizens (Perspective)
- The rights and responsibilities of citizenship (Responsibility)
UOI Field Trip
What Have We Learned So Far?
Math
Social Studies
English Language Arts
UOI Summative
Third-grade students will be writing an informative paragraph to explain to their readers how local government impacts the lives of citizens.
Subject Specific Summatives
Students will have formatives, which will assess their understanding of the math content and help drive my instruction to better suit their needs. They will also have an end of module math summative, the date of this summative will be announced a week prior. I send home review sheets for these assessments, the questions on the review sheet are very similar to those on the tests. Students that complete the review sheets generally do better on the summative, than those that do not do it.
Students will also have a vocabulary assessment every other Friday, and there will also be a short grammar assessment every Friday that will assess the part of speech we've worked on all week. Students get plenty of exposure to vocabulary and grammar through daily mini-lessons and activities, this isn't something students need to work on outside of their class time.
AQI
Students have been learning surat Al-Burooj and the story of people of ditch and how the king Thoo Nawwass was affecting the lives of people in his community, students watched a video about the story of "Okhdood" and they discussed through a venn diagram the differences and similarities between a king and an elected official. Students watched videos about our responsibility and discussed what are some responsibilities toward the community to improve their speaking by using the Arabic vocabularies.
Students have been learning to be part of community by action by taking action to clean the neighborhood.
Students have been working on their Arabic handwriting skills by writing vocabulary and Duaas
Students have been working in their Arabic reading skills by reading surat Al-Kahf and surat Al-Mulk.
Students have been learning Wudu and Salah by practicing with all the verbal steps.
Art
Oil pastels - Introduction to the elements of Art
They also divided the space using lines and treated each section differently using different elements of Art ( different lines, different colors, different shapes etc.)
Intro to the Greek and Roman Architecture
Finally they sketched the columns of each order (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian).
At the end they used their sketchbooks to design original columns.
ONE-POINT PERSPECTIVE CITY STREETS
Then the students worked on their own city street perspective drawing.