September 27th-October 1st

 

Upcoming Dates

October 7th - Early Release @ 12:30

October 8th - Student Holiday - Elementary Conference day

October 11th - No School

Conferences

Earlier today, we sent an email through Parent Square that contained sign ups for the Fall Conferences on October 8. Please make sure to check this email and sign up for a conference! 

iPads

Please help your child remember to charge their iPad each night.  Now that we are getting into swing of things with school, we will be using the iPads more and it is important that they come to school with it already charged.

October Lunch Menu

October

 

Math 

We’re regrouping! Yeah, we are! For us grown folk, that “new math” talk means borrowing and carrying the one. I have no problem using those terms; they’re interchangeable with regrouping, and honestly, these terms from our youth connect with the kiddos of today as well. 

As you know, we love a rhyme down in 110B, so here are our rhymes for addition and subtraction:

More on the top? No need to stop. (No need to regroup.)

More on the floor? Go next door, get 10 more. (You need to regroup - borrow.)

Numbers the same? Zero’s the game! (Example: 5-5=0)

When we are trick or treating, and someone isn’t home, we keep going on to the next house until we get to a house where someone is home. The same principle applies when subtracting across 0s: when a place value has a 0, we keep going to the next place value until we get to a digit greater than 0.

We will also discuss some addition and subtraction word problems this week.

Science 

We will continue with changing states of matter by exploring condensation and evaporation.  We will also explore mixtures and how identifying properties of matter can help with separating them.

Reading/Writing 

In reading, we will continue monitoring and adjusting comprehension when tackling more challenging fiction texts. We will show our reading GRIT by not giving up easily and instead use context clues to solve hard words, make sense of figurative language and talk back to the text using thick and thin questions. We will deepen our understanding of our reading by making text-to-text, text-to self, and text to world connections. In writing, we will continue planning and using graphic organizers to get our thoughts in a logical order and finish writing our first drafts (including an introduction and closing).  We will begin editing and revising to make our writing the best it can be.

Social Studies 

We will begin our new unit of Government and Citizenship.  We will start with looking at characteristics of a good citizen.

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Snapshots of 3rd grade

We had fun sharing all about our cultures!