Jan 13th-17th

This week we have benchmarks Tuesday and Wednesdy. The students will be getting a review packet Monday. Please make sure they get a good night sleep for both days. Thursday and Friday are early release days. Report card grades end this week as well. 

Problem solving

Problem solving is the hardest thing for my students but we have worked very hard everyday learning strategies to make us successful. Here is a tool I use with them to organize their thinking. 

I also encourage the kids to explain to me how they know they choose the right operation and worked through it correctly. Here are some examples of your children's explanations. 

Math has been learning fractions!

For the next three weeks, we will learn about fractional parts of a whole. I challenge you to start asking your children the fraction when splitting things into parts. For example, our pizza is divided into 8 parts, and we each took two pieces. What is the fraction of how many pieces we got. The answer would be two eighths. In third grade, they will need to read the fraction as a "th" number. In second grade, they said 2 out of 8 pieces. Here is a picture of our work this week!

Miss Scott

Read in!

Tomorrow third grade classes will have a read in. Your child may bring a pillow to sit on if they would like! We will read different books during our reading class time tomorrow. Students will have time to read independently, and listen to fluent reading from a class guest!  

November 4th-8th

The students are working on Multiplication. Challenge them on the multiplication chart and facts. 

Homework will be a little different this week. The students are required to do regular math problems along with math facts, and now a story passage. These skills are very important to the students success. 

Buckeye book club is Thursday at 4:00 till 5:15!

PROGRESS REPORTS go home Thursday. Make sure you sign and return. 

Group pictures and retakes will be Friday so please dress your child for the picture. 

Text Evidence

Look at the excellent examples of text evidence! Some students modeled using their strategies during class today! Great job! 

Grades

Report cards go home this week! Look for them Thursday.