November 26th - 30th

Thank you for taking the time to read our third grade blog. Make sure you are checking it weekly for calendar updates and what we are learning!

Important Dates

November 19th-November 23 - NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving Break
December 4th - PTO Meeting @ 6pm

Announcements

CogAT Test Results

Your learner is coming home with an envelope containing their CogAT test results as well as a letter explaining the scores. 

Third Grade Students of the Week
November 15th, 2018
We are SO proud of these learners for being model citizens every day this week. They are so respectful, kind, and follow directions the first time they are asked. We are so proud of you!
3A: Soee Jakhu , 3B: Naima Andrew, 3C: Avni Malik, 3D: Rika Okuda, and 3E: Sahana Hosalli

Parent Newsletter

Ms. Martin sends out a parent newsletter each week with many important announcements about TCE. Click here to check out this weeks newsletter.

What are we learning?

Math

In math, we will continue with 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication. We have covered the Distributive Property/Partial Products and Area Model strategies and will continue to practice these. After our break we will hone in on the Standard Algorithm. There are strategy videos on our websites to better understand how we will be teaching these methods. If you would like your child to watch these at home to practice as "flipped learning" so that they will be familiar with the strategies as we practice them at school, that would be great! You can also find these strategy videos here. We will continue with our "fact fluency" timed practice. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday will be retake days for past quizzes. New quizzes will be taken on Wednesdays and Fridays. This will not be a grade of any sort, just a way to practice and reinforce memorizing multiplication facts. Additionally, we will get some more practice with multi-step multiplication word problems. 

Language Arts

In LA we will be finishing up our review on Non Fiction Text Features.
Learners will read, infer, and draw conclusions to identify the details or facts that support the main idea of an article or book. 

In writing Learners will write about and discuss what they read and will get ideas for informational writing. We will integrate our SS projects with writing as we write about our Historical Figures.

Science

In Science, learners will investigate rapid changes in Earth’s surface such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides and the effects they have after the fact.  After taking a deeper look into the rapid changes the learners will take this information to create a survival guide for a natural disaster. 

Social Studies

In Social Studies learners will continue to consider the following while they conduct their initial research on their historical figure:
How do historical and contemporary figures shape our community?
How have scientific and technological developments affect our community and us as individuals?
What are the characteristics of heroes as related to good citizenship?