November 13, 2017

News for the Week… No School-November 22-24 Thanksgiving Break. Everyone will need to begin taking home their habitat projects this week. If they are not able to take their project home on the bus please be sure to make arrangements for them to get their project home. If you are scheduled for a conference this week you can take their project home at that time. We would like all projects taken home by Friday, November 17. 3rd Grade Musical-November 30th at 7:00 at BBH High School Auditorium

ELA This week will be the first Vocabulary assessment for the second quarter. This will cover the vocabulary for Weeks 1 and 2. We are currently working on whose point of view a story is being told from. While determining whose point of view the story is being told from we are also determining the author’s point of view (what the author thinks), which we have been practicing the last two weeks. After completing our short candy opinion writing we have moved on to working on a longer opinion piece. The students worked on generating ideas for their opinion writing. They were able to use these ideas and narrow it down to the topic they will be using for their writing. They have also used a graphic organizer to organize their reasons and examples to support their opinion. We will continue to work on: writing a lead revising their reasons organizing their writing into paragraphs writing their topic and concluding sentences transitions editing and publishing.

Math We are moving on to multiplication and division number patterns. We will begin with 2s and 5s. Students should begin practicing their multiplication facts at home in order to increase their math fact fluency. We are currently using a computer program called XTra math for practice at school. I will be sending home a letter about the program and how students are able to access this at home. The students are also working on some project based learning activities. There are two projects that different groups of students are working on. One project is a Thanksgiving Meal Project and the other is a Pilgrim project.

Social Studies Students are working on completing their Google slideshow animal research project. This is part of our animal unit and is also being combined with our integration lessons with Mrs. McKelvey. On Friday, November 17 we will have our animal unit assessment. Students will complete a study guide which they will be reviewing nightly beginning Tuesday night.. They will also be bringing home their science book to reread portions of the chapter in preparation for the assessment. We will be moving on to our Social Studies unit about Civics.