Ms. Arnold's Weekly News
Week of 11-13-17
Ms. Pscodna Got Slimed!
#3rdgradershardatwork
Math Games
Math games
Math games
Team work
Problem solving
Critical thinking
This Week
Tuesday: gym; Lexia time
Wednesday: computers; Lexia time; study guide sent home
Thursday: gym; Lexia Time
Friday: spelling test; red folders come home; new spelling list comes home; Cardinal Connections; Ms. Pscodna got slimed
Due Dates/Upcoming
*Fri Nov 17th: Book Orders Sent home (due 12-1-17)
*Unit math test next Tues the 21st (addition and subtraction)
*November 21st: End of 1st Trimester
*Thanksgiving Break: Nov. 22-24th
*December 6th: 3rd grade goes to Lansing (visit the capitol building and museum)
*Santa Shop: Dec. 11th-15th
*December 15th: Keicher Lock-In 6-9pm
*Classroom Holiday Adopt-a-Family Project (more info to come early Dec.)
-All holiday activities on Dec. 21st
Weekly Learning Targets
Reading:
On a daily/weekly basis, students get focused lessons on good reading habits, fluency and comprehension, shared reading, book of the day read-alouds, conferencing, a variety of reading skills and strategies, the tools in the classroom to help them, choice reading, content area reading, goal setting, booktalks and book trailers, and author and genre discussions and reflections. As the year progresses, students will be building a reading portfolio on SeeSaw as well as creating Greenscreen and Stop Motion videos on their favorite books in hopes to persuade other readers to read that book. I will continue to communicate our learning targets each week.
Ongoing Reading Learning Targets...
-I can pick a just fit book that's just right for me using the IPICK Strategy.
-I can practice good reading habits by rereading to check my comprehension.
-I can demonstrate my comprehension through writing which includes providing evidence from the text to support my thinking. (summarizing-reflecting and discuss-evidence)
-I can track my character's names to better understand what I read.
-I can practice my accuracy, expression, smoothness, and pace of reading to become a more fluent reader.
-I can use transition words to help write an organized and detailed book summary.
-I can use the tools/resources in the world to help me learn more about books, genres, and authors that are available to me. (libraries, stores, Google Images, Amazon, Kids Choice Awards, classmate recommendations, author websites, etc.)
This Week's Reading Learning Targets...
-I can identify the problem(s) that my characters are facing and how they solve them in my story.
-I can make connections (text to self, text to text, text to world) to what's happening in my story, to my character's, and the settings in my story.
-I can make predictions to what's happening in my story, to what my character's say, think, act, or react, and to where my characters are going throughout the story.
-I can visualize what's happening in my story, what my character's look like, the settings my characters interact with and use my senses to visualize.
Math Learning Targets: (unit: place value, addition, and subtraction)
-I can use different mental math strategies (make a ten and doubles) to better my fact fluency.
-I can use place value, decomposing, open number line, the inverse, or regrouping to add two and three digit numbers fluently.
-I can fluently find the difference between two and three digit numbers using the decomposing strategy, open number line strategy, the regrouping strategy, or the inverse strategy.
Writing Learning Targets: (unit: personal narrative)
-I can identify characteristics of a personal narrative.
-I can notice different "writer's craft" in a variety of mentor texts.
-I can use transition words to help write a more organized personal narrative.
-I can use a variety of revising and editing strategies to develop a stronger personal narrative.
(types of leads, endings, dialogue, and similes)
Science and Engineering Learning Targets: (unit: forces and motion)
-I can explain what a force is.
-I can see forces around me and how they help things move.
-I can explain which type of force puts things in motion.
-I can explain the difference between a balanced for and an unbalanced force.
-I can explain the impacts of the gravity force and friction force.
-I can determine which materials slide better than others.
-I can identify various properties of magnets.
-I can code an Osmo and an Ozobot.
Students will not have science and social studies unit tests throughout the year nor will they have homework in those areas. Math is the only subject where students will have some homework but never on a weekly basis. At the end of a math unit, students will have a study guide to complete at home prior to the unit test. Writing pieces are not sent home until the end of the unit. Our first piece, the narrative, takes most if not all of the first trimester. Students will post work on SeeSaw often. My hope is that SeeSaw will help keep you informed on what your child is doing in school on a regular basis in the classroom.
***Social Studies content standards are mostly covered in the third trimester.
Addition Strategy #1: Decomposing (break apart or expand into place values)
Addition Strategy #2: Open Number Line
Addition Strategy #3: Regrouping (Traditional)
Subtraction Strategies
Using the Inverse Strategy to Subtract
No Spelling Test the Week of 11-20-17
*Tests are on Fridays!
*Pleaes note: If your child is absent on a Friday, please have them take their spelling test at home on the weekend (on Spelling City)! Thank you!
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Ms. Arnold
Email: Stacy.Arnold@mccardinals.org
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Location: Keicher Elementary School, Broad Street, Michigan Center, MI, United States
Phone: 5177645200
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