Writing: Students will continue working on how to write a math extended-response. This week, the final two steps are being added - writing why you took each step, and restating your answer to conclude your thinking.
Math: Today students learned the traditional multiplication method. They will take the Unit 5 test on Tuesday, take the Unit 6 pre-test Wednesday, and complete lessons 6.1: Multiplication and Division Number Stories and 6.2: Strategies for Division Thursday and Friday.
Interactive Read-Aloud: Room 203 will begin reading a new novel this week, Holes by Louis Sachar.
Reading: Lessons and practice on author's purpose will be wrapped up this week. For the final lesson, students will find details in the text that support/show proof of an author's purpose, and then evaluate the text evidence to determine the overall purpose (they will find examples of different purposes within a text). We will also focus on how to construct complete, thoughtful responses to our reading. Steps that will be instructed include how to restate the prompt, and find strong text evidence to support our thinking.
Science: Students are learning that rocks ROCK! This week, guiding questions that students will discover are: What are rocks made of? How are sediments formed? and What effect do wind, precipitation, and ice have on rocks?
ISAT Practice Homework: Beginning tomorrow, students will be given a small packet of ISAT practice related materials. Usually the packet will be given on Monday, and be due the following Monday. Giving students a week to complete the work will hopefully be more conducive to your busy at home schedules! :) As a class, we will review all work sent home. A tab has been added to the Third Grade Website: ISAT. When Mrs. de Nazarie or I have any important information to include about ISAT testing we will post information on the website and be sure to update you on our blogs!
Unit 2 Quarter Project - Science: Just a friendly reminder that the science fair project is due January 25th. Please e-mail me with any questions you and your child may have!
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