It's hard to believe that we are headed into our winter break. Oh, how the time flies!
Here's What We've Been Up To in 3rd Grade:
Reading: We are learning about inferences within a text. We also continue to focus on reading comprehension of both informational and fictional texts.
Word Study: We continue to work with open and closed syllable patterns. For the upcoming week, we will focus on VCV and VVCV patterns. As a reminder, students bring a sheet home each Monday explaining the week's pattern--please make sure your child is ready to independently spell the words that are highlighted on that sheet on the Friday assessment. Helpful hint: a syllable that ends in a vowel makes the long vowel sound. A syllable that ends in a consonant will have a short vowel sound. Breaking words into syllables will help students to sound out larger words when reading.
Math: Students have had the opportunity to learn about mass, volume, and the U.S. Customary Measurements. We are now on to graphing!
Science: In our Animals Through Time unit this week we continued to learn more about selection and how animals have been changed over time.
Social Studies: Unit 3 has started. It is titled Explorers From Far Away. Students will learn about the first French explorers and why they came to this area.
Writing: We will continue to write about our reading and various topics throughout the day. After winter break, our focus will be on informational writing.
Next Week's Schedule and Dress Up Days:
Fact Practice and 7 Days of Multiplication
A 2-week winter break is a long time for kids. While we want them to enjoy their break, reviewing newly learned multiplication facts will be important until the facts are fully memorized. Remember that just 5 minutes can make a big difference. Our itslearning pages have games under the quizlets that can be played to reinforce automaticity of fact recall.
