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Monday, January 29th
- Guyot Special Class: Media Technology (Computers)
- Kalis Special Class: Media Literature (Library)
- Warneck Special Class: Music
Tuesday, January 30th
- Reflections Ice Cream for participants (during school/from the PTA)
- Reflections Celebration at APCA @ 6:30pm
- Readworks article due (“Famous African Americans – Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- Guyot Special Class: Art
- Kalis Special Class: Music
- Warneck Special Class: Physical Education (Gym)
Wednesday, January 31st
- Guyot Special Class: Media Literature (Library)
- Kalis Special Class: Physical Education (Gym)
- Warneck Special Class: Media Technology (Computers)
Thursday, February 1st
- NWEA Celebration Assembly
- We will celebrate our students who reached their personal growth goals on reading and/or math.
- MSTEP HW Packet #7 due
- Guyot Special Class: Music
- Kalis Special Class: Media Technology (Computers)
- Warneck Special Class: Art
Friday, February 2nd
- NWEA Principal Meetings
- Mr. Zielinski will be meeting with some students in our classroom to review their NWEA scores. This doesn’t mean they are in trouble! Mr. Zielinski takes an invested interest in the education of our students. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have time to meet with every student. He wishes he could!
- Edmentum Trophies due
- MSTEP Vocabulary Week 10 Quiz
- Grammar Quiz (Kamishibai Man)
- Guyot Special Class: Physical Education (Gym)
- Kalis Special Class: Art
- Warneck Special Class: Media Literature (Library)
English Language Arts
In third grade we will use an anchor text for 2 weeks. This week, students will focus on spelling, grammar, and writing skills. Spelling words and grammar will be assessed Friday, February 2nd. Please note that students are provided individualized spelling lists for their test. Groups are determined according to a pre-assessment which allows a student to work at his/her ability while also being challenged. Please see your child’s paper copy to determine their assigned word group. RAZ Kids (Vocabulary A-Z) has activities available to your child to help them practice their words independently. Please encourage your child to utilize this resource.
**MSTEP Homework Packet**
This homework assignment was sent home Friday, January 26th. Please stress the skills of reading the passages and looking back in the story to answer the questions. Thank you!
**Edmentum**
Third grade’s focus is earning trophies as students navigate their individualized learning path. Students are encouraged to earn 2 trophies in the area of reading, 1 trophy in math, and 1 trophy in language arts. Trophies are earned by completing a Progress Check with 80% or higher. Students know how to check if they met their trophy goal.
Math Chapter 10: Understand Fractions
In this chapter, your student is learning how to understand fractions. The lessons address how to identify equal parts of a whole and name them, how to write a fraction, and how to plot fractions less than 1 and greater than 1 on a number line. The vocabulary words for this chapter are: whole, whole numbers, sixths, eighths, fraction, unit fraction, numerator, and denominator.
Build your student’s understanding of fractions at your next family dinner!
• What dinners do you and your family make in fraction-ready shapes? Two examples are lasagnas in rectangular pans and circular pizzas! The next time you sit down for dinner with a fraction-ready dish, invite your student to help you divide the dish into equal parts. Begin by cutting the dish in half. Ask, “Does this shape show equal parts or unequal parts?” Then ask your student to name the equal parts. Next, divide the dish again so your dish is in fourths. Ask your student to name the equal parts.
• Divide a fraction-ready dish into sixths or eighths. Then, remove a sixth or an eighth of the dish. Ask your student, “What fraction of the dish have we removed?” Have your student write down the fraction. Next, remove more parts of the dish, asking your student each time to write down fractions to represent the fraction of the whole that has been removed.
• Sketch an empty number line. Ask your student to plot their “dinner fractions” on the number line. Remind them that every number on a number line represents a distance from 0, and the distance from 0 to 1 is one whole.
• Once your student is comfortable plotting fractions less than 1 on a number line, challenge them to plo
t fractions greater than 1 on a number line. If you made more than one fraction-ready dish for dinner, you can use those dishes for this fraction practice! For example: Cut two lasagnas in rectangular pans into sixths. Remove 2 equal parts of the lasagna from one pan. Ask your student what fraction of a lasagna is still in the pans. Then, ask your student to plot that fraction on a number line.
By the end of this chapter, your student should feel confident with the learning targets and success criteria on the next page. Encourage your student to think of other contexts for using fractions, such as measurements in a recipe.
Have a great time at your next family dinner!
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