3rd Grade Newsletter
April 1, 2019
What's coming up this week?
It's no fooling! We are slowing saying goodbye to Poetry and headed into Author's Purpose as well as reviewing test taking strategies.
We will also begin to delve into Research. Research is utilized in many aspects of our lives. It empowers us to seek new information and knowledge and promotes critical thinking. It allows us to deepen our understanding of the world, its people and oneself.
In this unit of study on research, students will be immersed in reading literary nonfiction (biographies). They will pursue information related to their personal interests as they generate a list of topics and questions to research.
MATH
This unit provides a review of material covered earlier in the year, as well as opportunities to extend skills and concepts into work with larger numbers and bigger ideas. Early in the unit, students learn to multiply single digits by multiples of 10. That skill is then extended into building and sketching 1-digit by 2-digit multiplication combinations. Working with multiplication beyond the basic facts provides rich opportunities to review the commutative and distributive properties and tap into the power of the associative property of multiplication. Having worked previously with fractions as parts of a whole and distances along a number line, students are introduced to linear and area models that allow them to see fractions as parts of a set as well as a parts of a whole. These models include a ruler, an egg carton, a 12-foot strip of adding machine tape, and a circle graph. The unit ends with a foray into data collection, representation, and interpretation of data.
Science:
Earth Interactions Students will explore, investigate, and compare landforms found on Earth and the rapid changes landforms undergo. They will explore changes and interactions between humans and their environment including how people adapt, modify and use the physical environment. Students will explore and investigate natural resources and the impact of rapid changes to natural resources.
Homework
PACE LA
Write a story expressing your opinions on April fool's pranks. What do you think of them? Are they fun? Mean? Helpful? Harmful? Persuade your reader to believe that your opinion is the right one. You may write this on a sheet of notebook paper and turn it in by FRIDAY the 5th.
Words
himself
seen
however
usually
always
try
kind
paper
money
number
example
there
it's
five
sure
answer
seconds
would
Math
Subtraction - Please pick 5 problems and work them out using the strategy of your choosing. . Use additional paper if needed.
PACE:
Subtraction - Please pick 5 problems and work them out using the strategy of your choosing. Use additional paper if needed.
Multiplication- 2x2's - Choose 5 problems and work them out. Use additional paper if needed.
Practice your math facts!!!!
MARCH MADNESS (the book version)
The Final Four were:
Stone Soup
The Three Ninja Pigs
Pete the Cat and his White Socks
and
Silly Goose's Book of Big Stories
The final TWO are....
Stone Soup
and
The Three Ninja Pigs!
WHO WILL WIN??
Important Dates
April 2-Students will take STAAR math practice test
April 19- No School holiday
April 22- No SCHOOL- Bad Weather Make-up Day
Field Trip at Austin Science Nature Center April 23rd- Pencil this in and let us know if you would like to join us on this day!
Field Trip Information and Volunteer Slip- If you do volunteer you must be a registered volunteer with the school.
Keep the "stuff" Coming!
DON'T FORGET!
It's getting to be that time of year! If you're Spring cleaning around your house or garage please consider donating your gently used treasures to our 3rd Grade Store that we will have at the end of the year. We will be collecting items from now until the end of the school year to be sold in our First Annual 3rd Grade Store! Students will use class dollars they have saved up to buy items donated by you, our families! Items that go like hotcakes are stickers, gently used stuffed animals, fidgets and anything else you loved when you were a 3rd grader!
We are also looking for parent volunteers to organize and run this store the last week of school. If you are interested please contact your child's teacher. Thank you in advance!