Third Grade Newsletter (Oct 18-22)
"Better Today Than Yesterday"
Message from the Teachers
Welcome to Fall! With you by our side EVERYTHING falls into place. Our character trait for the month of October is "Honesty". Stay current with updates and news through our weekly newsletters. Please check your child’s agenda daily for updates regarding your child.
Third Grade Teachers
Reading and Writing
Reading
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Summarize the main idea and provide supporting evidence.
Analyze the use of media techniques to achieve specific purposes.
Retell the important ideas in a text.
Analyze the use of text structure to achieve specific purposes.
Determine the meaning of grade level academic vocabulary with prefixes or suffixes.
Grades for the Week
Weekly Assessment (minor) 10/22
Know it, Show it: Suffixes (minor) 10/22
Writing
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Form and use the past tense of regular verbs and verbs that end in e.
Form and use present and future tense verbs.
Understand features of descriptive writing.
Grades for the Week
Grammar: Present, Past and Future tense (minor) 10/22
Prewriting: Drafting (minor) 10/22
Math
Math
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Use bar models to solve two-step addition and subtraction real-world problems.
- Use equal groups and repeated addition to multiply.
- Make multiplication sentences.
- Use objects or pictures to find the number of items in each group when sharing equally.
- Use objects or pictures to find the number of equal groups.
- Relate repeated subtraction to division.
- Make division sentences.
Grades for the Week
- Addition, subtraction and bar modeling Campus Base Assessment (CBA).
- Classwork and class participation.
- Homework practice.
Science
Science
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Explore different forms of energy, including mechanical, light, sound, and thermal in everyday life.
Grades for the Week
- Explore stage: The students will rotate through stations exploring mechanical, sound, light, and thermal energy. An "other" grade (15%) will be given for participating during the activities.
- Explain: Students will answer at the end of the week in a short quiz the following questions. This quiz will be graded as a minor (35%).
- What is mechanical energy? How do we use it?
- What is thermal energy? How do we use it?
- What is light energy? How do we use it?
- What is sound energy? How do we use it?
Social Studies
Social Studies
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Compare ways in which people in the local community and other communities meet their needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation.
Describe similarities and differences in the physical environment, including climate, landforms, natural resources, and natural hazards.
Identify and compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment in which they live such as deserts, mountains, wetlands, and plains.
Describe the effects of human processes , such as building new homes, conservation, and pollution in shaping the landscape.
Identify, create, and interpret maps of places that contain map elements including a title, compass rose, legend, scale, and grid system.
Identify and describe individual acts of civic responsibility, including obeying laws, serving and improving the community, serving on a jury, and voting.
Grades for the Week
Vocabulary Four Square Activity (minor) 10/14/21
Lesson Questions 1-4 (other) 10/15/21