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
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