Newsletter--Week of 9/6/16

News from 3F

Week of: September 6, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will be reading a mystery series called Cam Jansen. With this story, we will continue to focus on story elements and vocabulary. We will also focus on character traits and will continue reviewing making connections: text to text, text to self, text to world. Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: The focus this week will continue to be on capitalization. Students will review when to use capitals in their writing. Please encourage your child to reread and make corrections within their daily work and homework.

Writing: We will take a short break from Opinion Writing to learn about our Work on Writing station of Daily 5. In this station, students will have a variety of choices about what they would like to write about. Make sure to ask your student about our Class Journals, Book Cover Stories, and Journal Jots!  

Social Studies: While we continue to study force and motion, this week we will focus on being able to predict the motion of an object. For example, when we look at a boy on a swing, we know that the swing will go back and forth. We will be practicing this skill by conducting several experiments this week!  The vocabulary we have been learning and practicing is listed below for your reference, and in hopes that you will continue practicing these words with your students!

Lesson 1: force, motion, position

Lesson 2: balanced forces, gravity, unbalanced forces

Lesson 3: predict

Math: This week we will continue to learn about multiplication and division. Students will be tested on 2’s and 5’s multiplication and division. We will also begin studying 10’s. While some students are beginning to master their facts, this is not an expectation at this point in the year. Please continue to assist your child as needed.

Dates to Remember:

Wed. Sept. 7- Math Test: 5’s/2’s Multiplication and Division (Some students already completed this test last week!)

Fri. Sept. 9- Scholastic Book Orders Due

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