January Third Grade News
Bridle Ridge Mustangs
LEAP Program
LEAP is an intervention program for gifted students in grade 2-8 who have been identified as gifted learners. Students must meet qualifying levels on identified assessments in order to participate in LEAP. The levels are prescribed by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and have been adapted to the Ray-Pec LEAPprogram.
Nomination Period Now Open
Each year, parents or teachers may nominate students in grade 1-7 for candidacy to be evaluated for LEAP. The nomination period is from January 3 to 28, 2019. The nomination form link will be available on January 3, 2019, on the district webpage:
http://www.raypec.k12.mo.us/index.aspx?nid=889
Our school counselor, Becky Petersen, serves as our building LEAP coordinator. If you have any questions, please do no hesitate to email her at becky.petersen@raypec.org or call her at 892-1709.
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HOMEWORK
BOX TOPS!
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Loving Library Time
Learning Targets
Reading, Writing and Language
Read, infer, and draw conclusions to explain the author’s purpose
Develop and demonstrate reading skills in response to literary text by drawing conclusions and support with textual evidence
Develop an understanding of vocabulary by distinguishing the literal and non-literal meanings of words and phrases in context
Apply correct grammar when speaking and writing
Apply correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in writing
In speech and written form apply standard English grammar to produce simple and compound imperative, exclamatory, declarative, and interrogative sentences.
Compose well developed narrative and informative texts for audience and purpose
Math
- Describe in words or drawings a problem that illustrates a multiplication or division situation.
- Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve problems
- Understand that when a whole is partitioned equally, a fraction can be used to represent a portion of the whole and Compare two fractions with the same numerator or denominator using the symbols >, =, <, and justify the solution.
- Represent fractions on a number line and recognize and generate equivalent fractions using visual models, and justify why the fractions are equivalent.
Science
- Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular ecosystem some organisms -- based on structural adaptations or behaviors -- can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
- Compare and contrast observations of the life cycle of different plants and animals.
- Construct scientific arguments to support claims that some characteristics of organisms are inherited from parents and some are influenced by the environment.