Weekly Updates 10/6-10/10

News/Events

• This Thursday 3-509 is having their pictures taken at 9:15 am.
• Tomorrow from 6-7:30 Math Night is taking place! Please come by to learn more about math strategies and problem solving in third grade.
• The Fall Festival is taking place Saturday October 18th!
• The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to P.S. 11. Our class will visit the fair from 2-2:30 on Tuesday October 28th.
• We start our Circle in the Square Residency the week of October 20th.
• Our final farm stand date is Wednesday October 22nd.

Homework:

This week students will have nightly assignments in math, reading, and word study.

• Reading- Read for 30 minutes in your just write books and jot.
• Math- Regrouping work
• Word Study
• Monday- write your sort in your word study notebook
• Tuesday-complete a word study menu option (found in the cover of the word study notebook).
• Wednesday- complete a word study menu option
• Thursday- glue words into their "Words Their Way" book and study for spelling test

Curriculum Updates

Reading: This week we officially launched our second reading unit of the year, Characters in a Series! Throughout this unit students will study character development across a series of books, and will meet daily with book clubs to discuss ideas. This week we are establishing book club routines, goal setting, and are exploring character behaviors, key setting details, and various jotting structures.

Writing: This is our last week in our current Narrative Writing Unit (Crafting True Stories). This is an important week of revision. Students are studying how to correctly punctuate dialogue, how to develop an ending that leaves a last impression, and tomorrow several students are leading seminars about different topics discussed throughout the unit. We will publish on Friday, and any student that does not finish will be asked to finish over the weekend.

Math: This week we are exploring strategies to subtract with regrouping across the ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, as well as across zeroes. Next week we will wrap up our first math unit by studying different types of word problems using addition, subtraction, and bar modeling methods (a form of diagramming).

Social Studies: This week we are using what we know about maps (continents, oceans, lines of longitude and latitude, as well as keys and legend) to grow and develop ideas about maps and use them in a real world setting.

Have a great week!

Ms. Bouchard