Hi families,
This week we were on a roll, making progress in toward our learning goals! In math we began work on addition into the thousands without regrouping. We reviewed tools such using graph paper to line up our numbers and 100's grid to double check our answers for accuracy. We will introduce regrouping this upcoming week. In Social Studies we are creating various maps of Mexico (landform, agricultural, political, and product) making sure to include important map elements such as a compass rose, scale, and map key/legend. Coming up: Conferences - looking forward to seeing you all this week! Wednesday, October 31st - Halloween parade 8:15 Thursday, November 15th: Join us for a great Parents' Night Out at FA in support of the Book Fair. Click here to learn more and register. Childcare is available, but you must register for it in advance. All the best, Mrs. Tavares
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Hi families!
This week we began studying the Mexican holiday, Dia de Muertos ("Day of the Dead"), which focuses on honoring and remembering friends and family members who have died. A long term project that helps students connect this tradition to their own life, went home in your child's blue folder (it's fun, I promise!) In guided reading groups, our students have been working on incorporating their decoding skills from OG, and each have individual goals to practice while they read. In writing, we have been spending lots of time with our Framing Your Thoughts and Writing Skills programs to make sure each sentence is properly "framed", which basically means that it starts with a capital and ends with appropriate punctuation. Students have also identified subjects (nouns) and action predicate (verbs) and have been creating and diagramming sentences with the "subject" and "action predicate" symbols. We will generalize these learned skills to all of our writing assignments. In math, we ended our unit on number sense and place value into the 10,000 place, and will begin combining numbers through addition of digits in the thousands and ten thousands. During the week to come, we will be taking a look at the work we have produced so far this year and evaluate it for quality and effort. Students will compile the work that they are most proud of and put it together in the form of a portfolio. (The work that does not make it into the portfolio will be sent home in their trappers). This process will continue at the end of each month until the end of the year when the portfolio is full. Also, our conferences are student-led. The expectation for third grade SBP students is that they will run the first few minutes of the meeting and will guide you through their portfolios at this time. I am excited to see our students confidently speak about their work! After students present their portfolios, they will be dismissed and we will have time to speak as adults about their progress and our vision for this year. Finally, we will call the your child back in and together we will set some short and long term goals. Looking forward to seeing you in the coming weeks! All the best, Mrs. Tavares Hi Families,
This week was an exciting one for our third graders as we went on our first field trip to join the Lloyd Center in tagging Monarch butterflies at Gooseberry Island in Westport. It was a windy day, but we tagged a season record of 25 butterflies! We will benefit from the data that each of those butterflies bring as they make their way to Mexico. This trip also ushered in our Mexico studies and in the coming weeks we will learn more about this country and its culture. Our students have also been enjoying reading Here's Hank, a prequel to the Hank Zipzer series, which our students will be reading next summer as part of their transition to fourth grade. They have been reading this book with Ms. Velazquez, which has provided a wonderful opportunity for our students to bond with her. The main character, Hank, is in second grade and has undiagnosed dyslexia; so many of our students have connected with his feelings and experiences at school, and the reading of this book has spurred many meaningful conversations. In math, we are solidifying our understanding of place value and deepening our sense of numbers to 10,000 through a variety of in class activities and IXL practice. We also had our first Band of Friends practice. This is a special group of third grade, and select fourth and fifth graders who form a chorus that performs throughout the school year. It meets last period on Fridays and is a joyous way to end the week! All the best, Mrs. Tavares |
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