Oct. 24 to Oct. 28

Welcome to the week! Please keep an eye out for your conference slip in your child's folder. I will be sending them home on Tuesday to tell you your appointment date and time. Thank you!

Reading: This week, the students will be choosing from three separate projects related to our Unit 1 Big Idea: How Can Learning Help Us Grow? They will either create a travel brochure, time line, or poster presentation.  They will also be practicing the Reader's Theatre "Take Me to Your Litter" to build their oral fluency. As a recap, the students will be rereading the stories from the previous weeks in the Wonders series.

Spelling: There are no spelling words for the week.

Vocabulary: We will be using the words from the whole unit to investigate our projects.

Math: We will be wrapping up subtraction this week.

Writing: The students will begin working on their personal narrative writings by creating webs and first drafts.

Week of 10/17 - 10/18

Thank you so much to everybody that joined Class Dojo. I hope that it is a great way to keep track of your child's days at school. If you haven't joined, please check your emails or phone texts. I invited you via one of these methods. I also sent home more invites so you can get connected.

Here is a peak at our learning for the week:

Math:  The third-graders will be focusing very heavily of subtracting this week. They will be learning three different strategies: open number line, compensation, and break apart strategy. They will also begin exploring the new web-based program called ST Math.

Writing: We will be finishing our project of writing friendly letters and sending them in the mail! Students will also be working on stating opinions on ST Math and the book vs. movie version of Charlotte's Web.

Reading: We will be reinforcing the various activities that students will do during reading rotations (groups).

Spelling: There is no new spelling for the week.

Thank you sending back the parent-teacher appointment slips. It helps us get scheduled. If you haven't done so, please send them in your child's folder as soon as possible.

Thank you,
Mrs. Urbaniak

Week of Oct. 10 - 14

Hello families,

I'll be sending home the preferred day/times to meet for the parent/teacher conference this week. Please send these back as quickly as you can so we can make the schedule. I really appreciate it!

Math: We are in the thick of adding and subtracting within 1000.  The students will wind up with specific lessons on adding this week, and they will begin subtracting.

Writing: The students will be finishing the process of the friendly letter this week, and we will mail them on Friday. If you haven't already done so, will you help your child find the address of the person that they are writing to? They need to have the address (name, street address/p.o. box/city, state, zip) by Friday.

Reading: The students will be reading about our nation's landmarks and examining the question "How do landmarks help us understand our country's story?" They will be working on the following skills:

Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details Word Study: compound words Spelling Strategy: Long /o/ Grammar: simple and compound sentences Vocabulary: massive, national, carved, traces, grand, clues We have finished all of our placement testing, so this week, the students will begin working in small reading groups. I'm excited to sit down and read with them! Please call or email me if you have any questions! Mrs. Urbaniak