Ms. Arnold's Weekly News
Week of 4-29-18
Important News!!!!!!!!!! Nerd Camp Jr. Sign-Ups
Nerd Camp Flyer
This Week
Tuesday: Lexia; gym; M-Step Testing Day 1
Wednesday: Lexia; computers
Thursday: Lexia; gym
Friday: red folders come home; spelling test; new spelling list comes home
Due Dates/Upcoming
Tues, May 1st: Day 1 of 3rd-grade M-Step Testing
Fri, May 4th: Last popcorn day ($1 a bag)
Tues, May 8th: Day 2 of 3rd-grade M-Step Testing
Thurs, May 24th: 3rd-Grade Hands-On Museum Field Trip (looking for chaperones)
Mon, May 28th: Memorial Day (no school)
Mon, June 4th: Field Day
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.
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.)
-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 infer my character's thoughts, actions, traits, as well as my book's theme or message.
Nonfiction Text Study and M-Step Test Review
Currently, we are breaking down nonfiction text and learning about the structure and a variety of text features that author's use to give us new information. Students are also in beginning steps of drafting their own nonfiction book with a classmate on a topic of their choice.
-We are breaking down specific nonfiction text examples and are identifying the main ideas and details of the author's text.
-We have been working on identifying and explaining what the author's purpose is of a variety of texts.
This Week's Writing Learning Targets...
-I can write a persuasive book talk and use Greenscreen to share my talk with other readers. (ongoing)
-I can use different types of nonfiction structures and features to create a nonfiction book on a topic of my choice.
Math Learning Targets: (unit: area and perimeter; fractions; M-Step test review)
-I can explain why area and perimeter are important and how they help us solve problems.
-I can identify real-world examples of area and perimeter.
-I can solve a variety of area and perimeter problems in different ways (using formulas, square units, drawings, arrays, or the distriubutive property) while using the right tools to help me model solving for the area and perimeter.
-I can use my knowledge of fact families and the inverse strategy to multiply and divide more accurately and fluently.
-I can fluently multiply and divide up to 100. (basic facts).
Side Note:
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.
Multiplication and Division Sentences
Multiplication Strategies
Arrays and the Commutative Property
Division Strategies
Double a Known Fact Strategy Example
To multiply any number by 8, double the number. Then
double the product and finally, double that product.
Double-Double
Doubles Facts
× 8
Multiplication Strategy Posters
© The Math Learning Center
8 × 6
2 × 6 = 12
2 × 12 = 24
2 × 24 = 48
8 × 6 = 48
9 × 8
9 × 2 = 18
18 × 2 = 36
36 × 2 = 72
9 × 8 = 72
List #23 (prefixes)
1. untied
2. repay
3. disagree
4. preheat
5. unafraid
6. return
7. preschool
8. dislike
9. disappear
10. resell
11. precook
12. prepay
13. unbeaten
14. reprint
15. unwrap
16. unlucky
17. recover
Spelling Tests are on Fridays on Spelling City. If students are absent on Friday, it is important that they take their test at home over the weekend on Spelling City. If they do not have the Internet at home then they can take the test Monday mornings at computers. Thank you!
Keicher News
TEACHER REQUESTS for the 2018-2019 school year are now being taken in the Keicher office. We will
continue to take requests during the month of April. We have a super teaching staff at Keicher Elementary, and
are excited at the variety of teaching styles we can offer our students. Requests must be written and have an
educational reason to be considered for the placement. As much as we are able, we will honor requests made,
but there are no guarantees. The deadline is April 27, 2018.
HOOPS FOR HEART will take place during your student’s gym classes during the week of April 16th. Forms will be going home on Monday, April 9th. All forms and donations need to be returned by Friday, April 20th. All monies raised will be donated to the American Heart Association. Thank you in advance for your
support.
BOX TOPS! BOX TOPS! PLEASE COLLECT YOUR BOX TOPS!
Ms. Arnold
Email: Stacy.Arnold@mccardinals.org
Website: smore.com
Location: Keicher Elementary School, Broad Street, Michigan Center, MI, United States
Phone: 5177645200
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Twitter: @MsArnoldClass3