Newsletter-Week of 8/24

News from 3P

Week of: August 24, 2015

Reading: This week students will be reading a story called “Officer Buckle and Gloria.” With this story, we will be focusing on the story elements and looking into the main characters. There will be a lot of whole group discussion with this book. The following questions can be asked of your child: what is the story you are reading this week?, what is the setting?, who are the main characters?, what is the problem/solution?. These will help to instill the importance of the story elements we will be focusing on. Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: The first week of school is a transition week. As a third grader, we will be focusing on simple conventions (capital letters, punctuation, etc…). Please make sure that your child is taking his/her time to write neatly and use the proper grammar.

Writing: Last week, students began their GLURP paper! Don’t know what a GLURP is, please ask your third grader! J We focused on a simple third grade paragraph. We will be doing our final copies this week and they will be posted for the upcoming Curriculum Night!

Social Studies: We will be continuing to study continents and oceans this week. We will have a quiz next week and then move on from the big picture of the world to just the Midwest and specifically, IllinoisJ.   

Math: Last week, students were pretested over their multiplication/division facts of 2’s and 5’s. We broke up into different math groups to begin learning these concepts. There will be nightly homework so please make sure to check in with your child. Our focus this week will be studying the concept of multiplication and 5’s. Students not only need to be able to multiply and know the answer, but they also need to be able to draw pictures and talk about the idea of repeated addition.

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Dates To Remember: Curriculum Night—Thursday, September 3

                                      2 Sessions at 7:00 or 7:35pm