January 19-22
Week 20 - Read Fluency Every Night!
News This Week
Remember to read fluency folders each night and return on Friday. You do not have to record anything on Friday. This only takes 60 seconds each night. If you forget a night for some reason, do two the next night!
Test folders went home today. Please check over them. You should see reading, math, spelling, science, social studies, and grammar from the last week. We are working hard to make sure that tests do not all fall on one day. Spelling tests will be on Thursdays starting next week.
Students need to have their folder, homework, and AR book with them everyday. It is very important to come prepared.
Author Visit Thursday!
Studies this Week
- RI 3.3 - Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
- RI 3.8 - Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
- We are reading America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederly and When Women Took the Field
Spelling
- R-controlled Vowels
- The title on spellingcity.com/meverette is Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
- third, early, world, certain, dirty, herself, earth, word, perfect, verb, nerve, worm, thirsty, workout, earn, determine, commercial, whirlwind, worthwhile, virtual
Math
- We will continue “Rocket Math” daily. Please help your child practice each day with the drill sheet they bring home. Many students have made it to M and beyond already! Great job!
- Check your child’s folder for homework. They will have math homework several days throughout the week.
- In math, students are assessed for mastery. Therefore there will be no study guide prior to math assessments. However, reviewing homework daily will be a great help to your child.
- Tuesday - review division
- Wednesday - division assessment Thursday - begin fractions
- New Objectives: 3.NF1, 3.NF3
Vocabulary
- atmosphere, brilliant, convince, endure, glance, harsh, plunge, precious, swift, unite
- Test on Unit 5 words Thursday
Writing
- In Writing we will spend the next three weeks working on “My Favorite Book” Essay Contest
Grammar
- L.3.2d Form and Use Possessives (the dog's bone, all the girls' books)
Science
- Plant Adventures
- Over the next few weeks we will:
3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
3-LS3-2. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
3-LS3-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
Social Studies
- Physical Map: Colorado
- Understanding physical features on a map that include: mountains, valleys, plains, oceans, lakes, rivers, and gulfs.
Join Our Math Class on Remind
Mrs. Blackmon has set up a Remind just for math and spelling. You can join by clicking the link: https://www.remind.com/join/494bh
A paper in your test folder has directions as well. Our class code is 494bh
Practice at Home
Practice Structure and Sequence
Reread (these 2 paragraphs). How are the ideas (in the two paragraphs) connected? (connected by time order/sequencing, comparison, cause/effect)
What is the next step/event/idea after___?
What words or sentences help you know what comes next?
Explain how the first paragraph relates to the second paragraph. Use examples from the text in your explanation.
Explain how the author develops his/her idea across the paragraphs. Use examples from the text in your explanation.
Explain what the author does to help the reader understand how to (put the tent together). Use examples from the text in your explanation.
How are paragraphs (2 and 3) connected to each other? Use a detail from the text to explain your answer.
Important Dates
January
18 - No School - MLK Day
26 - Snow Wizard $1.00
29 - Talent Show