Mrs. Magina's Third Grade Classroom 2012-2013

Monday, January 28, 2013

A Sneak Peek at Our Week ...


  • Word Work:  The focus this week will be on the affixes mis- and de-.  
  • Writing:  Students will continue to practice writing math extended responses.  I have been impressed with how hard they are working, and with how reflective they have been about their.  I have seen a lot of improvement and growth!
  • Math: This week, students will finish practicing dividing by one digit divisors using the traditional method OR the partial quotients.  Mid-week students will learn how to use both methods to divide by two-digit divisors.  We will end our week focusing on remainders, and deciding how to express the remainder (whole number, fraction, or not included) in story-problems.  There will be a test over Part 1 of Unit 6 on Monday, February 4th that will focus solely on division.  For extra practice, this website has a lot of worksheets focused on different division skills: Division Worksheets.  
*** On this assessment, students do not have to use both methods for division - they can choose whichever method works best for them!
  • Reading:  This week students are continuing to practice the three steps needed to write a complete, thoughtful response to reading.  On the following part of the third grade website, Extended Response Sentence Starters, I have included sentence starters to all three parts of the response (text reference, explanation of reference, and voice).  This is an updated handout to what was previously posted.  
  • Science:  Students have truly learned that rocks ROCK!  This week students will wrap-up investigations around the following key questions:  How are metamorphic rocks formed?  How are igneous rocks formed?  and How do rocks change?  The final unit test will be this Thursday, January 31st.  Because of the limited time to review and reinforce concepts, students will be able to use their science note-books on this test.  They will be taking their notebooks home to review on Wednesday. Be sure to explore the Rocks & Minerals part of the third grade website, as their are many great resources for your child to explore!
*** Reminders:  Just a friendly reminder there is no school this Friday, February 1st!

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