3rd Grade 8/28

  

Scholars, thank you for working diligently on your writing and grammar tasks. Your spelling, sentence structure, and comprehension are set to soar! Louis has learned many things on his journey thus far. Make sure to follow along in your book during read alouds. Thank you for your Try, Try Again submissions. We are delighted to view your recitations! 

In Spalding, scholars have now been introduced to the homework, Thursday review, and Friday spelling test. Monday- Wednesday, scholars will learn 10 new words every day. They will need to complete their homework where they will write their words a total of 3 times. These words will include markings and rules. On Thursday, they will write out all 30 words to prepare for their Friday spelling test. On Thursday and Friday, scholars do not need to include markings or rules. 

This week scholars will dive into mental math addition and subtraction strategies. These strategies are more tools for your scholar’s mathematical toolbox. However, they are not meant to replace the algorithm and strategies they learned last year. They can still write down a problem and regroup on paper! The goal is simply for scholars to see the relationship between numbers and learn that there is more than one way to solve addition or subtraction problems.

This week in History scholars will travel to South America, Canada, Europe, and Africa, as we continue to learn about different rivers around the world.  

This week in Science we will discuss traits of parents, offspring, and siblings. 

Why was the bee's hair sticky? Because he used a honey-comb. 

Specials:

https://ghwhspecialsls.blogspot.com/

GHWH 3rd Grade 8/21

 

This week in Spalding, students will continue to review. Now that manuscript is complete, the students will begin cursive. The purpose of cursive writing is to develop fluency. The connecting letters increase the speed of writing, improves the attention span, and fosters academic performance. Students feel successful as they develop ease with handwriting. 

Another week, another set of stories with Sam and Louis! We look forward to hearing your poetry recitations on the 28th and will spend the week practicing Try, Try Again by T.H. Palmer. The skills you will gain in the upcoming grammar and writing lessons will help you improve your overall reading and writing skills. We are so excited for you here in third grade; congratulations on completing week two!

This week our young mathematicians are going to explore rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand! Number lines are particularly useful when practicing rounding. On Thursday, we will review all of the topics from Unit 1: place value, comparing numbers with the greater than and less than symbols, number patterns, and rounding. Scholars will show what they have learned so far with a Unit 1 test on Friday. 

Why didn’t 7 and 1 want to eat dinner? Because they already eight! 

This week 3rd grade is going to take a wonderful adventure exploring the Murray, Mississippi, and the Ob rivers. Scholars will have 2 exit tickets for History this week. Finally, on Friday there will be a special reading on Friday from an excerpt from Mark Twain’s “Old Times on the Mississippi.”. We will explore the dangers along the Mississippi for river pilots. 

What is the fruitiest subject at school? History, because it’s full of dates.

This week 3rd grade will continue to study life cycles of various plants and animals. Scholars will start exploring different traits of plants and animals. There will be 2 assignments this week in Science.

Where is a rabbit’s favorite place to eat? IHop! 

Important Information:

• Parents, please see the stream of your scholars google classroom daily for an updated agenda for the day. This will help guide your scholar while doing their work to ensure everything is being done and turned in. It will also help you when you are checking your scholar's work to make sure that nothing was forgotten about or missed.
• We are working very hard to provide your scholar with feedback on all of the work being turned in. In order to see how your student is doing on assignments turned in follow the steps provided below;
• In Google Classroom on the web, available classes display after you sign in. Click on or tap a class, then: Classwork (from the top menu), then View My Work. When you see a small speech bubble next to an assignment that means a teacher has left a comment for your scholar.
• In the Google Classroom app on iOS or Android, tap a class, tap Classwork, then tap the student work icon in the upper-right hand corner of the screen.
• Each assignment is listed with its status (e.g., Assigned, Turned In, or Missing) and due date, if added. If available, grades also display on this screen, although not all assignments will have a score associated with it.
• Specials Blog:
https://ghwhspecialsls.blogspot.com/

GHWH 3rd Grade 8/14

 We've hit the ground running with literature! Scholars, you can expect to dive deeper into the mystery that is Trumpeter Swans and learn more about Louis in the coming weeks. Please be prepared to submit a Try, Try Again recitation by August 28th at midnight. Lastly, be on the lookout for the daily study of writing and grammar in the forms of scripted and interactive videos.

This week we will be studying our wonderful Base-10 number system including 4-digit numbers, place value, and number patterns. Scholars will be using their paper math manipulatives, and working in their Primary Mathematics Textbooks and Workbooks.

What did the calculator say to the math student? You can count on me!

This week we will be diving into a wonderful adventure across the world’s many rivers. We will travel to Egypt, China, and India. Scholars will answer questions based on reading chapters 1 & 2. There will be a quiz at the end of the week.

This week in Science we will begin to explore the world of animal and plant life cycles. Scholars will read chapters 1 and 2. This Core Knowledge reader will be available for download in Google Classroom. There will be a quiz at the end of the week.

What kind of tree can fit in your hand? A palm tree.

Important Note:

Google Classroom Clarification: In all of your google classrooms your scholar should be enrolled in TWO classes. One is your student's homeroom, the other should be their grade level specials class. If you do not see both classes please reach out to one of your specials teachers via email to let them know so that they can add you to their class.

 To find out about Specials: https://ghwhspecials.blogspot.com/

Way to go 3rd grade Spartans, you showed the virtue of perseverance, as many of you had technology issues and just starting back into the routine of school. We know it was rough. Now we press onward to next week. Have a great weekend.