Welcome back! I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and restful break, I sure did!! With three weeks left prior to the winter break, students tend to become more chatty. We still have a lot to cover and a lot of work to finish up prior to the break. I have discussed this with the students in both classes today and would greatly appreciate if you could also speak with your child at home about this as well. We need to stay focused and on task through Dec. 20. Thank you for your help with this! 😊
Third Grade Newsletter week of Dec. 2-6, 2019 The first bracket of the MYON reading competition for the Final Four continues into January. Dolvin third grade students currently hold the #1 position and there are now 90 schools competing! It’s encouraging to see that many of our students continued reading over the holidays! Students are encouraged to read non-fiction as well as fiction stories. There are several stories available that will help support their social studies unit on European Explorers. Reading: We will be working on our mid-year BAS reading assessments through the remainder of this quarter. We hopefully expect to see every student progress at least one reading level from where they were in August. We will continue learning how text features aid in understanding non-fiction text. Some examples of non-fiction text features are maps, graphs, bold print, change in font or font color, headings, sub-headings, photographs, illustrations, captions, glossary, index, table of contents, title page, and diagrams. Grammar: Students are reviewing the subject and predicate of sentences as previously learned in first and second grades. By the end of this week they will be learning to identify and write four types of sentences including declarative (statement), interrogative (question), imperative (command) and exclamatory (exclamation). Spelling: Students will be working on spelling sort 16 this week. They received their lists for sorts 16, 17, and 18 today and they are in their purple folders. Writing: We are working on informational writing for the remainder of this quarter. Students are reading non-fiction articles and texts to gather information. They use their research to write their own non-fiction essays on the same topic. In their introductions, students are expected to write a hook sentence in the form of a question, a topic sentence, and three big ideas. The three-paragraph body of their paper includes a topic sentence and details about one of the big ideas for each paragraph. In the conclusion, students answer their hook question and restate their big ideas about the topic. Students will be creating an informational writing booklet on an explorer. This assessment will include reading comprehension and the use of text features, informational writing, and social studies standards. Homework: Myon (they may do this versus iReady), Read 20 minutes daily (this can be done through Myon), a text feature worksheet, subject/predicate worksheet Dates to Remember: December 5 – Sign & Return papers Happy Birthday to: Evan Dec. 17
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