The 3rd Grade Newsletter
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Reading
This week we are focusing on Ask and Answer Questions Strategy, Cause and Effect, Metaphors, and the genre will be Informational Text: Biographies. We will also be working with sequence writing. Our stories for the week include "Mary Anderson's Great Invention", "All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine", and "Lighting the World."
Our vocabulary for the week: design, encouraged, examine, investigation, quality, simple, solution, and substitutes. Our selection vocabulary test will be Friday!
Common Core Standards: RF.3.3c, RF.3.4b, SL.3.1c, SL.3.2, RL.3.2, L.3.6, RL.3.4, RL.3.7, RL.3.10, 3.4a, and L.3.4d
Math
Problem Solving: Organize Data, Use Picture Graphs, and Making Picture Graphs
Common Core Standards: CC.3.MD.3
"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." -Gail Devers
Spelling
Spelling Words Unit 1 Week 4
Spelling Pattern: Long A
Common Core Standards: L.3.2f and L.3.2g
plain
braid
fail
grain
snail
paint
sway
tray
gray
stay
state
fake
same
weigh
they
Review Words
fine
skate
globe
Challenge Words
sleigh
afraid
REMINDERS!!
- PELP! Classes are Monday-Thursday from 3:30-5:30. Pick up your student behind the school in the cafeteria.
- This week we will begin learning our multiplication facts, starting with x3 and x4!
- NO early release Wednesday!
- Blu-Jay Friday! Lets show our school pride off! WOO!
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Common Core Standards Key
R-Reading
RL-Reading Literature
RI-Reading Informational Text
RF-Reading Foundational Skills
W-Writing
SL-Speaking and Listening
L-Language
Math
CC-Counting and Cardinality
OA-Operations and Algebraic Thinking
NBT-Numbers and Operation in Base Ten
NF-Numbers and Operations-Fractions
MD-Measurement and Data
G-Geometry