This week marks the beginning of the last nine weeks. Where did the time go? It's also the time of year to start preparing for STAAR. This won't impact our regular schedule, but you may notice we will complete more reading passages in reading. During math, spiral review is always part of our regular routine, and it will continue to be so, although some days we will spend slightly longer than usual for review.
Speaking of STAAR, beginning this week, students will have homework consisting of a reading passage and math review. The first homework assignments will be sent home tomorrow and will be due on Friday. We'll go over it on Monday, (so if your child forgets to bring it Friday, they have one more chance). Homework will be given until the week before STAAR. Coming Up This Week... Science: Our unit on environments and food chains is off to a great start! This week students will choose an ecosystem to learn more about through research. Also, we will finalize our PBL projects we have been working on during ESLOT which includes an ecosystem scene. And...we have a guest speaker from the Austin Zoo coming on Monday! Reading: This week we will start book clubs as we shift gears from nonfiction back to fiction. I LOVE book clubs and I'm pretty sure the kiddos will too. Students will choose their top three book choices and then I'll form groups. I try my best to give everyone their first choice but it doesn't always work out. Book clubs are a time when we dive really deep into character/plot development. This week, we will learn how to have a good discussion as well as how to stop and jot questions/thinking to prepare for book club meetings. While reading the first chapter, students will do some problem solving to set up their thinking for the rest of the book by completing a Know/Wonder chart. We did one together last week using the first two pages of Stone Fox, and everyone was thinking deeply about the text. Writing: The first part of the week, we will be writing scripts from the point of view of an endangered animal as part of our PBL project. We'll learn how to write with voice as we convey an important message to people about their plight of animals and their habitat loss. Then we will begin another unit on writing personal narratives. Math: Our focus this week will be on finding the perimeter of a figure with a missing side length and determining solutions to problems involving adding or subtracting time intervals. Upcoming Events Monday, March 26-Zoo presentation for 3rd grade Friday, March 30-No School
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November 2019
Mrs. Swyers3rd Grade Teacher |