Weekly Update: October 12, 2019

Happy Long Weekend 3B Parents!

                                   

Important Dates to Remember:

• Monday, October 14^th – No School
• Friday, October 18^th – Chapter 1 Social Studies Test
• Friday, October 18^th—Progress Reports
• Thursday, October 31^st----Pumpkin Project Fair at 8:30-9:15am

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**Pumpkin Project Fair!**

Since the children have been working so hard on their pumpkin project, we would like to hold a Pumpkin Character Fair!  Please join both 3rd grades on Thursday, October 31st from 8:30-9:15 in the cafeteria. There they will show off their handiwork, creativity and tell you a little bit about their pumpkin character!  We hope that you can join us!  

~Mrs. Ferullo and Mrs. Newell

Math: This week we moved on to Topic 2. This topic is focused on number sense and includes addition and subtraction meanings, using mental math, rounding, estimating sums and differences, and making sense of addition and subtraction equations.
Thus far, students have been gaining practice on learning to identify key words in word problems. These words help students determine whether to add or subtract.

We also learned different strategies that can help us mentally solve addition and subtraction problems. 

You Can Help: Posing practice problems at home will help your child gain a better sense of the strategies used in mental math. 

Below you will find Mental Math Video Tutorials to help you better understand the addition and subtraction math strategies I am teaching students in class. This will hopefully prove helpful as you work with students at home.

Addition:

Breaking Apart Both Addends

Subtraction:

Making a Ten 

Reading: This week we did some more work with character traits. We read the book Pinduli and named ways to describe her. They could be descriptive words that describe how she looks on the outside, how she was feeling at the moment, or words that describe who she is on the inside.

We then used the book Stripes to sort these descriptions into physical traits and internal traits.

Next week, we will finish up our work with character traits by focusing on the difference between emotions (how characters feel at the moment) and character traits (the character’s personality). In guided reading groups, we have been discussing the character traits of the main characters of our passages.   

Religion: Religion tests will be coming home next week.  Reviewing the test with your child will help them to see their mistakes and how they will need to study for the next test. In Chapter 3 the children will learn about the Last Judgment and that Jesus taught us to love others. 

Writing:   I spent time teaching students how to write in complete sentences when answering short answer/essay questions. We learned how to box “question words” and restate almost every other word in the question. This is a handy trick, but like any strategy there are always exceptions.

  

Also this week, we started brainstorming our OUCH stories. Next week, we will begin working on generating personal narratives about a time they've gotten hurt along with building stamina for writing. They have so many stories to tell and I can’t wait to help them grow as authors!

Have a great weekend!