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MATH
In
math students are solving addition and subtraction problems with two
and three-digit numbers. Students are finding combinations of numbers
that add to 100, and working with coins and coin values. Their
understanding of place value is developing as they add and subtract 10s
to form three-digit numbers. In this unit students have learned to break
three-digit numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones in different ways,
and solve story problems involving missing addends.
LITERACY
Reading
comprehension refers to the ability to acquire meaning from written
text. When students enter third grade, they are no longer learning to
read; they are now reading to learn. In order to allow for the utmost
growth as "comprehenders"
in third grade, our reading curriculum relies heavily on comprehension
strategies instruction. That is, students are taught a variety of
strategies to apply before reading, during reading, and after reading in
order to make the most meaning from a text. (Block, Gambrell, &
Pressley, 2002; Robinson, McKenna, & Wedman, 2004) In reading our
first strategy has been activating our schema with building our
knowledge through different types of connections and making sure that we
are choosing books that are at their level.
For
Writer’s Workshop we have been focusing on Personal Narratives.
Students are learning to take everyday events of their lives and stretch
them out into a well-structured story. Students are learning that in
order to do their very best to communicate these stories they need to
create a plan, then apply that to their writing.
SOCIAL STUDIES
For
our social studies unit we started our learning with comparing
communities from the past to the present. Students now have an
understanding of what makes a community. We will be exploring local
history that will allow students to grasp how communities change
overtime. Later in the month we will be going to the Plains Conservation
Center and we will also be listening to a historian tell us about the
“good old days”.
DATES TO REMEMBER
September 7th: Labor Day-No School
September 14-16: CogAT Testing
September 21st: Castro, Schwartz and Russell’s Field Trip to the Plains Conservation Center
September 23rd: Shepperd and Merideth’s Field Trip to the Plains Conservation Center
September 29th: Parent Teacher Conferences
October 1st: Parent Teacher Conferences
