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Hi families!
It is hard to believe that this was our last full week of school for the year! This will be the LAST long update for the year (I promise!!). Please help your learners get any library books back to school! Here is a look at what we did this week and what is to come. Link to our classroom calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?tab=oc#main_7 Important Upcoming dates: Monday May 30th-No school-Memorial Day weekend Wednesday June 1st-Field Day! Third grade will be participating in field day from 12:45-2:15pm Monday June 6th-Math Projects (Measurement and data due) Monday June 6th-Rumpus Performance- 1:30-2:15pm Monday June 6th: Book Fair! 7:30-10am and 2:00pm-4:00pm Tuesday June 7th-Rumpus Performance 9:30-10:15am Tuesday June 7th-Book Fair! 10:30-12:30 and 1:00-6:00pm Wednesday June 8th-Staff vs. 5th grade kickball game from 1:15-2:15 Wednesday June 8th-10:30-12:30pm and 2:00pm-4:00pm Thursday June 9th-Last day of school! Half day-dismissal at 12:20pm Homework this weekend: Measurement and Data project work, final journal entry (3rd grade reflection), Book group work/reading group article work (Eerie Elementary will meet for the last time on Monday), Send Rumpus shirt to school (let me know if you would like to borrow one from school!) **We are finished with dictado for the year! Other Important Information Rumpus Costume Information: Students will need to wear a t-shirt with these specific colors for their roles in the play. The T-shirt needs to be clear of any writing (can be turn around or inside out so no writing is displayed). If you do not have a t-shirt of this specific color at home, please don't worry about running out and buying one, we have MANY extras from years past that learners can borrow (please let me know if your learner will need to borrow one). Colors for Rumpus: Frog-green Toucan-Black Boa-Green Jaguar-orange, yellow or animal print Sloth-gray Monkey-gray Shaman-white Explorers-white with khaki shorts Ants-red Storytellers-Dress clothes-idea is to look like news anchors :) *Black colored shorts or pants is best or any other dark colors for everyone except explorers. Important Information about field day:
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Literacy: This week in literacy we continued working on persuasive writing, reading examples of persuasive text and explored how to add strength in our writing through describing words and strong adjectives. We also discussed the different types of persuasive techniques you can use to appeal to your reader. Next week we will work on two short writing projects using our heredity monsters from science and then a piece to persuade other students to come to third grade :) Social Studies: We have continued learning about South America through our time practicing Rumpus in the Rainforest and mini lessons with Ms. Cieslik and Ms. Schmitt's classes on Brazil, Patagonia and Peru. We will wrap these mini lessons by discussing the environmental issues currently being face by South America (melting of glaciers and deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest) and asking students to use their persuading techniques and skills in small groups to create informational posters in class prompting awareness and solutions to these issues. Science: We wrapped our Heredity unit on Monday with our Heredity Unit Quiz. The students did a great job in this unit and on the final quiz! Have a wonderful holiday weekend and please let me know if you have any questions, Nicole “What are we going to do in math this week?” asked Kate. “This week we will review area and perimeter,” replied Ms.Triller. “I am so excited!” shouted Ethan.
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It is finally starting to feel like we are on our way to summer with the beautiful weather we have had this week! We had a great trip to the UW this week (check the blog for some great pictures of our day! and thank you again to our chaperones that joined us!) and the learners are continuing to have a blast in gym with roller blading, our last day for rollerblading will be on Monday. Here is a short update of upcoming dates. Link to our classroom calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?tab=oc#main_7 Important Upcoming dates: Monday May 23rd: Gym-bring protective gear *Last day of rollerblading in gym Monday May 23rd: Heredity Quiz Tuesday May 24th-MAP testing (Math sessions) 10:45-11:45am and 12:45-1:45 Wednesday May 26th-Hoot permission slips due back at school *please check with your learner, these went home today. Thursday May 26th-All LMC books due back at school-I will send home notices for overdue items on Monday Thursday May 26th: Volunteer appreciation breakfast Monday May 30th-No school-Memorial Day weekend Monday June 6th-Rumpus Performance- 1:30-2:15pm Tuesday June 7th-Rumpus Performance 9:30-10:15am Homework this weekend: Story problems for time for measurement and data project if not finished in class, journal, dictado, book group (Eerie meeting on Monday) **Book groups will officially wrap up this next week and from there for the rest of the year we will work on guided reading with articles and other shorter texts** Rumpus Costume Information: Students will need to wear a t-shirt with these specific colors for their roles in the play. The T-shirt needs to be clear of any writing (can be turn around or inside out so no writing is displayed). If you do not have a t-shirt of this specific color at home, please don't worry about running out and buying one, we have MANY extras from years past that learners can borrow (please let me know if your learner will need to borrow one). Colors for Rumpus: Frog-green Toucan-Black Boa-Green Jaguar-orange, yellow or animal print Sloth-gray Monkey-gray Shaman-white Explorers-white with khaki shorts Ants-red *Black colored shorts or pants is best or any other dark colors for everyone except explorers. Dictado for next week: “What are we going to do in math this week?” asked Kate. “This week we will review area and perimeter,” replied Ms.Triller. “I am so excited!” shouted Ethan. Have a wonderful weekend and please let me know if you have any questions, Nicole The learners had a BLAST on our field trip to the UW on Wednesday. They were able to work in the genetics lab and explore DNA, work with some hands on activities that demonstrated different aspects of physics and learn some interesting facts about cows and the care they receive in order to stay healthy! Here are a few snapshots from our day! Since we are nearing the close of school, we thought we would ask you what you would change about this year? Between all the events, which have been your favorites?
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Hope you all had a great week! Here is a look at our week this week and our week ahead! Book group assignments for next week are attached :) Link to classroom calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?tab=oc#main_7 Upcoming important dates: -Wednesday May 18th-UW Field Trip -Thursday May 19th-Gym Day-bring protective gear -Friday May 20th-Heredity Quiz -Friday May 20th-LMC day-Bring Books :) -Monday May 23rd-Gym day-Bring protective gear -Tuesday May 24th-Map Testing for Math 10:45am-11:45am and then again from 12:45-1:45pm -Thursday May 26th-Volunteer appreciation breakfast in the LMC 7:30-9:00am -Friday May 27th-Gym day-bring protective gear Homework: Book Group work (Eerie meeting Monday p. 34-55), Dictado practice, journal, practice Rumpus :) *UW Field Trip: It's hard to believe we are only a week away from our UW field Trip. We will leave school at 8:15 and return at 2:15 on Wednesday. The whole third grade will be in three groups and we will all rotate between the same three stations from 9:00am-12:30pm. Here are the three stations we will be rotating between: Dairy Cattle Center, Biotechnology Workshop, L.R. Ingersoll Physics Museum. *We will be having a late lunch, so please make sure your students eat a big breakfast at home. We will be using our school breakfast as a snack. If you still think your learner will need an extra snack, please make sure to pack one. Here is the dictado for next week: Since we are nearing the close of school, we thought we would ask you what you would change about this year? Between all the events, which have been your favorites? Content Areas: *Literacy: We have continued working in literacy on persuasive writing. We are continuing to expand our familiarity of of using the OREO structure for our persuasive writing. Learners have been working with stories that provide positive connections to examples of persuasion through reading stories like "I wanna Iguana". Next week we will be working on using persuasive language and transition words to add into our persuasive writing. In book groups we have been focusing on connecting to ideas we have previously been working with related to character feeling and text evidence. Students worked to identify a characters feeling and then support their reason with text evidence. *Math: In Measurement in Data this week we continued working on our understanding of time, creating hours of operations for the learner's businesses and began working with liquid measurement. Students worked with understanding the conversions between different units of measurements (Milliliters and liters), (gallon's, quarts, pints and cups). We did some interactive stations measuring different unlabeled containers and created a bar graph from this information. We also worked with word problems around creating a lemonade stand to further our understanding of liquid measurements. *Science: We continued our studying of heredity this week. In class we learned about the differences between inherited traits and learned behaviors and began creating our own monsters using our understanding of punnett squares, recessive traits and dominant traits. We will also use these in connection with some of our persuasive writing. Next week we will have our final activities in heredity and close this out with a final quiz on Friday May 20th or Monday May 23rd (depending on timing, I will let you know as the week progresses, but lets plan on the 20th). *Social Studies: We finished working with Asia this week and began working on South America. We will be learning about South America through our work with the musical, Rumpus in the Rainforest, as well as in class activities. The students are already doing a wonderful job with Rumpus. Please continue to help them practice the songs and their lines for the performance :) Have a great weekend and please let me know if you have any questions! Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent. There are over four billion people that live in Asia. Asia is divided into 48 countries, two of them (Turkey and Russia) having part of their land in Europe.
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What a week it has been here in the land of 3rd grade! Thank you for all the wonderful thoughtful gifts for teacher appreciation week!! Between the talent show, zoo and starting MAP testing, it was a week well spent! Happy Mothers Day Weekend to all the wonderful mothers of these learners. You truly have amazing children and I am so happy to share in the joy that they bring to each day. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend celebrating your amazingness!! Link to our classroom calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?tab=oc#main_7 Upcoming dates: Monday May 9th:Rollerblading begins in gym-please send in helmets and any other protective wear you might want your learner to have on gym days (day 3 and 5)This week we will have gym on Wednesday and Friday:) Wednesday May 18th: Field trip to the UW-Please make sure to send back permission slips, fees and lunch to go slips by Wednesday May 11th. May 26th: Volunteer appreciation breakfast 7:30-9am LMC. Please see the attached flyer! Homework for the week: Math worksheet on time for some that did not finish in class, journal entry, dictado practice, family tree (due Monday), Book group work (all book groups will resume this coming week with their normal schedules). Send back any fraction unit reflections and materials back to school if they are still at home :) Content Information and updates : MAP Testing: Map testing is off to a great success, the students came in on Wednesday ready to do their best and worked extremely hard on the test! I do not have the math session scheduled yet, but it will not be for a few more weeks and will let you all know when those times are scheduled. Literacy: This week in literacy we presented out final Roary Tales (which will be graded this weekend and sent home for you all to enjoy). They will also be posted on the blog for students to share and view. We have continued with persuasive writing and focused on practicing persuasive writing based on learner's opinion using the "OREO" opinion style for writing. We will continue to evaluate more examples of persuasive writing next week as well as working on practicing our persuasive skills :) (although many are already advanced persuaders!!) Math: This week in Math we began working with time as our first focus of measurement and data. We started by reviewing what we already know about time and practicing measuring time elapse as well as creating schedules for our businesses. Science: We continued our heredity unit with activities focused on understanding our family trees, how traits are shared and passed as well as applying this knowledge and these skills to an activity around different dog breeds! We will continue working with heredity next week with several more hands on experiences. Social Studies: This week we learned about the Japanese Cherry Blossoms and their connection to Japanese culture. We will spend one more day in Asia next week and then begin practicing Rumpus in the Rainforest, the third grade play that we will be putting on with Ms. Schmitt and Ms. Cieslik's classes at the end of the year that focusing on studying South America. Ms. Cieslik, Ms. Schmitt and I working together diligently to take into account student preferences for roles as much as possible, but there are few leads and many learners participating so there will be some learners that may not get the role they hoped for. We will have roles ready by Monday. Dictado: Here is the dictado for next week: Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent. There are over four billion people that live in Asia. Asia is divided into 48 countries, two of them (Turkey and Russia) having part of their land in Europe. Please let me know if you have any questions and have a lovely weekend!! Persuasive writing is a type of writing that tries to convince someone of your opinion. In order to convince someone of your opinion, you must use good reasons and examples. Can you think of a time when you had to persuade someone?
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