Team Third Grade
Mrs. Behm, Mrs. Komar, & Mrs. Frye
January 24, 2020
Community
We are grateful for our parent support of having our students read every night. We have spent some time reflecting on our Home Reading Logs to see who we are as readers by analyzing the trails of our reading history since the start of the school year. We’re excited to share with you at parent conference what we’re noticing about ourselves as readers. Reading is thinking...thus we embrace the challenge to continue to grow our thinking.
Language Workshop
How are identities formed and shaped?
In Language Workshop, we have been reading & unpacking biographies of various individuals who impacted others and influenced the lives of many. We have discovered different ways that these individuals responded to a challenge, event, or relationship that caused them to problem solve and persevere. These stories are well received because they bring hope and focus to what’s possible when we keep striving to be creative and passionate about what we love. We are looking forward to reading and unpacking the final two books for this unit.
Reader's Workshop
In Reader’s Workshop, we will continue to study informational text with an emphasis on biography. We will also continue to study the different structures (main idea & details, comparison, time & sequence, cause/effect) that writers of informational text utilized to communicate their information. As our readers become fluent in identifying text structures, it will help them determine the information that is most important.
Writing Workshop
Our Biography unit is well underway! Your son or daughter has been researching and taking detailed notes about their important person each day. They have learned how to use their resources to get ideas but then put it in their own words. Students are also learning about giving credit to the people who wrote the books and online resources they used by making a source list or bibliography. Soon they will start to use their notes to draft their paragraphs.
Math Workshop
We are well underway into learning fractions! Just a friendly reminder that fractions are relatively new for our friends. We are focusing on two main way to use fractions - the area model and the number line model. For an area model, each unit fraction is represented that shows how a unit fraction never changes. One half is one half no matter the context. The number line model shows the order of fractions - one fourth, two fourths, three fourths, four fourths. This concept is challenging for students to understand but essential. Be on the lookout for a study guide coming home early next week!
Science
After studying live crayfish in our “Unity and Diversity” unit last week, we are using what we’ve learned and applying those concepts to any organism. This week we focused on animal adaptations and what they need to survive. Next week we will begin the inquiry process. Students will need to choose another wild animal besides the crayfish to do their inquiry around.
Digital Citizenship
Our students have been exploring a variety of informational websites for their biography research and comparing their findings. They have been learning how to choose an informational website that is right for them as they collect facts for their research topic. It’s exciting when they discover the information that they were inquiring about prior to researching. Finding quality websites that connected to their topic was the goal.
Other Information
Hi Parents,
Here at Rose Glen, the Physical Education program prides itself on providing the students learning and moving opportunities that won't be found at most other schools. One of those opportunities is Nordic (Cross Country) Skiing. This activity is provided to our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. During the unit, the students learn a variety of skiing techniques, as well as experience the physical fitness benefits of nordic skiing.
Beginning next week, the 3rd through 5th grade students will be participating in the Nordic Skiing unit weather permitting. All students are expected to have snow pants, coats, boots, hats, and gloves in order to go onto the snow. There isn't an alternative activity, so any student who doesn't participate will receive a zero for their participation. Students who can't participate will be expected to go outside with the class and watch as their supervision needs to come from Physical Education.
The students will be emailed on their school email to announce any cancellations of skiing, so please encourage your student(s) to be familiar with accessing their school email on their iPad.
Six Flags Reading Program!
Six Flags Reading Program
For completing 6 hours of reading outside of school time students in kindergarten through grade 5 are eligible to earn a free ticket for Six Flags Great America. There is a NEW feature this year - electronic Reading Logs. Adults will register and log their child(ren)’s reading time into an online reading log directly on Six Flags’ website. Families will have the ability to track their child’s progress during the program. Also NEW this year is an extended program deadline of April 16th, leaving more time to complete the reading minutes.
Register using this link:
You will need the teacher code for each child that you register
There are no reading logs to return this year; everything will be done online. Tickets will be distributed by teachers in mid-May, once the tickets have been sent by Six Flags.
Please note: Six Flags does not allow 4K students to participate in this program.
Any questions can be directed to Mrs. Beth Anne Krahn, Rose Glen's coordinator for Read to Succeed.
#970-2451 or bkrahn@waukesha.k12.wi.us
Codes:
Behm - XHKXT
Frye - JEUHG
Komar - CW6RJ