Welcome to our third grade blog! Please check our blog each week to see what we are learning as well as announcements and calendar updates for TCE and Third Grade!
Calendar
November 5th - PTO Meeting @6pm
November 7th - TCE STEM Night 5:30-7
November 8th - North Feeder Night at Coppell HS Football Game
November 11th - Veteran's Day Ceremony @8am
November 5th - PTO Meeting @6pm
November 7th - TCE STEM Night 5:30-7
November 8th - North Feeder Night at Coppell HS Football Game
November 11th - Veteran's Day Ceremony @8am
Announcements
CISD Family Survey
CISD is currently surveying our families in order to gain insight into your perception of our schools and district effectiveness. This survey shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to complete and will be a valuable source of information for us, as we work to make our schools and our district the best that they can be. You may complete the survey online between now and Nov. 4, using a computer, tablet or smartphone. To take the survey, please visit https://surveys.panoramaed.com, then select your child(ren)’s school. If you have multiple children in CISD, we ask that you take the survey for each school your child attends.
Last week your learner should have made it home with a yellow copy of our school - parent compact. If this has been misplaced or lost, you can find another copy on Ms. Martin's parent blog. Please sign and return to school as soon as possible.
STEM Night
Veteran's Day Ceremony
Pumpkin Patch!
Town Center Parent Newsletter
Here is the link to Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter for the week.
Pumpkin Patch!
Town Center Parent Newsletter
Here is the link to Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter for the week.
What are we learning?
Math
In math, learners will be taking a multiplication and division pretest on Monday. Please remember that our pretests are not weighted and do not go towards their mastery for the year. They are assessments used solely for instructional purposes. Throughout the week we will learn various strategies to represent multiplication so that the learners have a conceptual understanding of what is happening.
After learning the 'why' behind multiplication, we will begin our timed multiplication fact quizzes on Monday, November 11th. These will be 2 minute timed quizzes on each times table. They are allowed to take one quiz per day, and move through the times tables (up to x10) at their own pace. If they don't finish the quiz that is A-ok, they can retake that times table once a day until reaching mastery. There is no time limit as for when these quizzes will end, as we know each learner works and memorizes at different paces. However, any practice with fact fluency that can be done at home is VERY helpful. Each learner has been placed on multiplication and division on Reflex Math for this reason. Flashcards at home also work.
Language Arts
In language arts we are continuing our unit on character analysis. We will explore inferencing some more and how we may use our past knowledge combined with what the book says to infer things about our characters. We are also going to talk about how stories have problems, and explore different ways characters react to problems. We will discuss how the way a character reacts to problems tells us a lot about them and their traits.
Science
In Science, the learners will complete their energy expert research and present to their classmates. Following the project completion we will begin to work through our first ADI (Argument Driven Inquiry) project for the year involving forces. This process will take 1-2 weeks and practice the skills of creating, testing, and defending a scientific argument.
Social Studies
In social studies we are wrapping out our unit on government and citizenship by talking overviewing the purposes of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. We will begin our upcoming unit on geography by introducing maps, parts of maps, and what they are used for. The learners will be utilizing a new learning journal to track their learning throughout this maps unit.
Math
In math, learners will be taking a multiplication and division pretest on Monday. Please remember that our pretests are not weighted and do not go towards their mastery for the year. They are assessments used solely for instructional purposes. Throughout the week we will learn various strategies to represent multiplication so that the learners have a conceptual understanding of what is happening.
After learning the 'why' behind multiplication, we will begin our timed multiplication fact quizzes on Monday, November 11th. These will be 2 minute timed quizzes on each times table. They are allowed to take one quiz per day, and move through the times tables (up to x10) at their own pace. If they don't finish the quiz that is A-ok, they can retake that times table once a day until reaching mastery. There is no time limit as for when these quizzes will end, as we know each learner works and memorizes at different paces. However, any practice with fact fluency that can be done at home is VERY helpful. Each learner has been placed on multiplication and division on Reflex Math for this reason. Flashcards at home also work.
After learning the 'why' behind multiplication, we will begin our timed multiplication fact quizzes on Monday, November 11th. These will be 2 minute timed quizzes on each times table. They are allowed to take one quiz per day, and move through the times tables (up to x10) at their own pace. If they don't finish the quiz that is A-ok, they can retake that times table once a day until reaching mastery. There is no time limit as for when these quizzes will end, as we know each learner works and memorizes at different paces. However, any practice with fact fluency that can be done at home is VERY helpful. Each learner has been placed on multiplication and division on Reflex Math for this reason. Flashcards at home also work.
Language Arts
In language arts we are continuing our unit on character analysis. We will explore inferencing some more and how we may use our past knowledge combined with what the book says to infer things about our characters. We are also going to talk about how stories have problems, and explore different ways characters react to problems. We will discuss how the way a character reacts to problems tells us a lot about them and their traits.
Science
In Science, the learners will complete their energy expert research and present to their classmates. Following the project completion we will begin to work through our first ADI (Argument Driven Inquiry) project for the year involving forces. This process will take 1-2 weeks and practice the skills of creating, testing, and defending a scientific argument.
Social Studies
In social studies we are wrapping out our unit on government and citizenship by talking overviewing the purposes of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. We will begin our upcoming unit on geography by introducing maps, parts of maps, and what they are used for. The learners will be utilizing a new learning journal to track their learning throughout this maps unit.
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