March is Reading Month: This month begins our focus on celebrating reading! This year we are encouraging students to read many different genres in order to become diverse readers. Students can check off activities that are completed (please sign what they've read at home). Happy Reading!!!
Multiplication: We cannot stress to you enough the importance of memorizing multiplication facts. Having a solid understanding and quick recall of these facts will be essential for your child when we begin division. Additionally, students need this fact recall when they begin long division and other important 4th-grade math skills. We recommend purchasing multiplication fact cards at the dollar store and practicing a few minutes in the evenings. Once your child has instant recall it will stick. However, if they aren't completely memorized, the facts will not stick from week to week.
Multiplication: We cannot stress to you enough the importance of memorizing multiplication facts. Having a solid understanding and quick recall of these facts will be essential for your child when we begin division. Additionally, students need this fact recall when they begin long division and other important 4th-grade math skills. We recommend purchasing multiplication fact cards at the dollar store and practicing a few minutes in the evenings. Once your child has instant recall it will stick. However, if they aren't completely memorized, the facts will not stick from week to week.
Author Visits: We are so fortunate that we will have 2 author visits this month! Order forms went home on Friday if you would like your child to order a book. They are signed personally by the author.
Upcoming Events:
Here's What We've Been Up To in 3rd Grade:
Reading: We will continue to focus on making predictions as well as beginning our next genre study: Fairy Tales
Word Study: Our test on long "-er,-ar, and -or" syllable patterns will be Friday. We will then begin to work with Agents. These are words that change from a verb to a noun by adding -er, -ar, and -or. Examples this week are: instructor, editor, director, speaker, designer, listener, adviser, beggar
Math: We are beginning our unit on Geometry. Students will be expected to reason with shapes and their attributes. We will be comparing various shapes, sorting based on attributes, and discussing different types of angles.
Science: Invisible Forces: discussing balanced and unbalanced forces, friction, and magnetic pull. Our focus for this week will be on bridges.
Social Studies: Unit 6 will focus on Using Nature's Gifts. We will be discussing mining, lumbering, and some of our first inventions.
Writing: Informational books are almost complete! Ask your child to show you his/her book on Wixie.
