Third Grade News – Week of October 15-18, 2019
Last week we completed the first quarter of school. Your children learned many new things in the past nine weeks. Besides their academic lessons, they have worked on routines and procedures, expectations for their behavior in all areas of the school, and the Seven Mindsets lessons Everything is Possible and We are Connected. Report cards will be sent home on Thursday October 17. Please review them with your child. There shouldn’t be any surprises. Remember, grades are a reflection of students’ progress to date, not a final grade. Reading: This quarter we will be working on informational reading. We will begin this week with lessons on finding the main idea and supporting details in informational passages. We will continue to use highlighters and Post-It notes to indicate evidence of the standards in our readings. Grammar: Students will be focusing on pronouns this week. Spelling: Starting this week, we are going to change the way that we administer the spelling quizzes. Students will have a spelling quiz every Friday on one sort. They will be given 12 words on each quiz. This week they will have a quiz on sort 10. They will continue to receive the spelling lists with three sorts at a time. Students may practice their spelling words at the following site: https://www.spellingcity.com/users/clarkkw Once on the website, they need to look on the left side for My Home Page and click there to find the lists for 3rd. The spelling lists are not in groups, so they will have to scroll through the list to find the current week’s words. Writing: Students will complete their summative writing assessment on narrative writing. We will then work on constructive responses with informational writing using the TEACH method. This stands for Topic Sentence, Evidence, Additional Evidence, Conclusion, Have Another Look. Dates to Remember: October 16 – Fall Picture Make-Ups, Student Council meeting October 17 – Mustache Day October 18 – Walk to school and dress like a P.E. teacher October 21 - 25 – Bus Driver Appreciation Week October 21, 22, 24 – ITBS testing Please make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep Happy Birthday to: October 1- Jacob October 13- Clio Third Grade News – Week of Oct. 7-Oct. 9, 2019
As we are nearing the end of this first quarter, here are some things to ponder. In third grade, we expect students to be 100% accountable every day. This means coming to class with their supplies, participating in class, studying at home and learning the standards, and being prepared for tests. If you would like further information about our curriculum this year, please review the standards here: https://www.georgiastandards.org/Georgia-Standards/Frameworks/ELA-Grade-3-Standards.pdf (3rd. grade ELA) https://www.georgiastandards.org/Georgia-Standards/Frameworks/ELA-Grade-4-Standards.pdf (4th. Grade ELA) Reading: Last week we continued learning about different perspectives and how a reader may have a similar or different point of view than the narrator or character telling a story. We’ve also been finding evidence in the text to support the point of view. We read Two Bad Ants and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs as mentor texts and discussed how these stories were told from the viewpoint of the ants and wolf and how they would change if told by different characters or the reader. Students had their end-of-quarter formative reading assessment today. Grammar: Our focus was abstract and concrete nouns last week. Students need to review common and proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, singular and plural possessive nouns, and concrete and abstract nouns. They have resources to study in their notebooks to prepare them for their grammar test. The grammar test is postponed due to students absent and it being a holiday. Students worked on spelling sort 9 last week and completed the quiz for sorts 7, 8, and 9. They will be bringing their new spelling list home next Tuesday. The tentative date for the quiz on sorts 10, 11, and 12 will be November 1. This is a longer time frame than normal due to ITBS. Students may practice their spelling words at the following site: https://www.spellingcity.com/users/clarkkw Once on the website, they need to look on the left side for My Home Page and click there to find the lists for 3rd. The spelling lists are not in groups, so they will have to scroll through the list to find the current week’s words. Writing: Students will have a summative writing assessment on narrative writing. They will have about 45 minutes to write a five-paragraph personal narrative. The narrative must include a one paragraph introduction to include a hook ((onomatopoeia, question, interesting fact, description, or dialogue), the characters, and the setting. Setting includes where and when the story takes place. The three- paragraph body of the essay needs to include the problem along with the events and details leading to solving the problem and the conclusion. The conclusion should resolve the problem, tell how the narrator (student) is feeling and why. Dates to Remember: October 9 – School Store October 10-11 NO School October 14 NO school Happy Birthday to: Jacob October 1 Clio October 13 |
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