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Mrs. Chalk & Mrs. Oduyoye's 3rd Grade Newsletter Nov. 13
Welcome!
Writing Workshop
Grammar Review
Workshop review: Ask your child if they can...
- name the 5 parts of a complete sentence.
- produce a simple and compound sentence.
- use coordinating conjunctions in a compound sentence.
- explain the function of nouns in a sentence.
- use abstract nouns in a sentence.
- form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
- explain the function of pronouns in a sentence.
- explain the function of a verb in a sentence.
- form and use regular and irregular verbs.
- form and use simple verb tenses.
- produce sentences where the subject and the verb agree.
- explain the function of adjectives in a sentence.
- form and use comparative and superlative adjectives.
- use the articles a, an and, the correctly
- explain the function of adverbs in a sentence.
- form and use comparative and superlative adverbs.
Getting ready for Paragraph Writing!
Because of Winn Dixie
I can refer to parts of a story and describe how each chapter of the story builds upon on another.
I can explain my point of view and how it might be different from the narrator's or character's point of view.
I can distinguish between first and third person narrations.
I can use sentence level context clues to find the meaning of a word or phrase.
I can describe major characters in a story and explain how what they do effects what happens in the story.
I can identify the time, place, and environment and how it could effect what happens in the story.
I can explain an author's purpose for writing a story or passage. It is as easy as P.I.E.
I can explain the main events that happen in a story.
I can determine the lesson or moral (theme) of a story.
Reading Notebooks
Readers use clues to help identify the author's purpose.
Cooperative Learning
What is cooperative learning?
2. The teacher's role changes from giving information to facilitating students' learning.
Five essential elements of cooperative learning in the classroom.
- The first and most important element is Positive Interdependence. (Students must fully participate and put forth effort within their group)
- The second element is individual and group accountability. (Members promote each other's success)
- The third element is face to face interaction. (Each student has an opportunity to demonstrate mastery of the content being studied)
- The fourth element is teaching the students the required interpersonal and small group skills. (Social skills that must be taught in order for successful cooperative learning to occur.)
- The fifth element is group processing. (Group processing occurs when group members (a) reflect on which member actions were helpful and (b) make decision about which actions to continue or change.)
BOOK CLUB
Geography
- Physical and political maps have distinctive characteristics and purposes.
- Places can be located on a map by using the title, key, alphanumeric grid and cardinal directions.
- Local communities change over time
- Primary sources such as artifacts, maps and photographs can be used to show change over time.
Unit 3 - Exploring Multiplication
Students build on what they know about addition and subtraction to solve and represent multiplication and division stories. Students use drawings and number sentences to represent solution strategies and reasoning.
- Complete open number sentences involving multiplication (e.g., × 4 = 4 + 4 + 4 and
× 4 = 4 × 3; × 4 + 1 = 13 ). (Algebra 3) - Represent multiplication and division problems in stories, drawings, and number sentences.
- Multiply and divide using mental math strategies (e.g., reasoning, repeated addition).
- Solve two-step word problems involving multiplication and division.
- Represent solution strategies for problems involving the multiplication facts using number sentences and drawings. (Algebra 4)
- Represent solution strategies for problems involving multiplication facts for the 5s and 10s using number sentences and drawings.
**After lesson 3 in Unit 3, we will be taking a break from the daily Trailblazer lessons to dive deeper in our understanding of multiplication. We will work 2 days on each fact family 2-12. We are doing this because multiplication is a key concept of 3rd grade mathematical learning. We want students to be able to demonstrate mathematical understanding, as well as, procedural skills.
Strategies for Multiplication
Arrays- A Student Favorite
Why does it matter?
Sequence of Units in Trailblazers
If you would like to review work or see what is coming, you are always welcome to log into the website and access the digital lessons, or ask your child to bring home their text book. Vocabulary should be reviewed and is located in the math journal. The DPPs (Daily Practice Problems) can also be reviewed and brought home after completion in class.
Unit 3: Exploring Multiplication
Unit 8: Exploring Multiplication Patterns
Unit 10: Exploring Multiplication and Division
Unit 13: Multiplication, Division, and Volume
Unit 9: Parts and Wholes
Unit 11: Analyzing Shapes
Unit 12: Measurement and Patterns
Mrs. Oduyoye
Email: oduyoyet@sycamoreschools.org
Website: https://bb.sycamoreschools.org/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_791310_1&content_id=_1055342_1
Location: Montgomery Elementary School, Montgomery, OH, United States
Phone: (513)686-1799 (1553)
Mrs. Chalk
Email: chalka@sycamoreschools.org
Website: https://bb.sycamoreschools.org/webapps/blackboard/execute/announcement?method=search&context=course_entry&course_id=_791302_1&handle=announcements_entry&mode=view
Location: Montgomery Elementary School, Montgomery, OH, United States
Phone: (513)686-1799 (1530)
Snapshots of our Learning
COUNTDOWN TOURNAMENT
Typing Pal
Upcoming Events
November
17th Art Museum Field Trip
20th Interim Reports Distributed
25th-27th Happy Thanksgiving (NO SCHOOL)
December
4th COSI
15th Holiday Breakfast (more details coming soon)
17th Holiday Party
18th All Star Lunch
Winter Break- December 21-January 3rd
School Resumes January 4th