THIRD GRADE NEWS
March 5, 2020
What's Happening?
March 13- No school! (teacher workday)
March 16--No school! (RFF Day)
March 17--Spring Picture Day
March 24--No school! (teacher workday)
March 31--College Pride Day
Inquiry Into.....
Reading: We are working on a Test Prep unit where students will practice test taking skills (coding passages, eliminating answer choices, circling important words in questions, etc.) along with a recap of previous reading skills. Also, students will be reading paired passages and writing constructed responses using text evidence. We will be focusing on strategies students can use to help gain information from the text.
Writing: Students will continue their work with essay writing. We will work on writing interesting leads, supporting our ideas with evidence/examples from the text, and writing a conclusion.
Math:3.2 We are wrapping up our unit on fractions and will begin a new unit on measurement. We will learn how to find elapsed time with story problems and then examine
various weights and volumes.
Math 4.1: We are continuing our work with multiplication and division! Students will deepen their understanding by developing strategies to multiply larger numbers, solving multi-step multiplication and division word problems, investigating factors and multiples, and analyzing patterns in multiplication and division.
Math 4.2: Students will start a new geometry unit by studying various polygons. They will examine their attributes and angles along with parallel and perpendicular lines.
Science/Social Studies: We are starting a new IB unit: How We Organize Ourselves. In this unit, the students will be learning about rocks, minerals, weathering, and erosion.