Third Grade News
Week of October 3, 2016
Upcoming Events in Our Community READING WITHOUT WALLS CHALLENGE MONTH
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Reading This week, we’re continuing to raise the level of our predictions while reading. We’re not only predicting what might happen to a character, but we’re thinking about how this might happen to a character AND we’re using evidence from earlier in the book to help support our thinking. Try it at home with a family read aloud! We are continuing to work on our reading partnerships and learning how our partners can help us to raise the level of our own reading! | |||
Writing We’ll be working to revise our first drafts this week. First, we will look at the work of other authors to discover ways to improve our own writing. We’ll also be working to develop the “heart” of our small moment stories. We’ll also be learning how to use paragraphs for organization and to further elaborate parts of our stories. | |||
Math This week, students will be focusing on the area model of multiplication using arrays. Arrays are an arrangement of even rows and columns. Students are using the array cards that they created last week to play games that focus on multiplication fluency. They are also learning how to use facts they know to solve facts they don’t know. | |||
Theme In Science this week, we’ll continue to think about how our time at the Huntington River and our adventure to Lake Champlain are connected through the Lake Champlain Basin watershed. Later this week, we’ll be learning more about what a watershed is and how it is made. Finally, on Friday, an educator from Echo will come to RES. We’ll be learning about problems in a watershed and trying to design solutions to prevent them from impacting Lake Champlain. | |||
Reading Without Walls Challenge We are challenging all families to participate in this global challenge. During the month of October, please find a book (or two or three!) that your child can read independently or one you’d like to read together! The challenge is to read a book outside of your comfort zone. So grab a book that is a different genre than you normally enjoy. A book about a character that doesn’t look or live like you. Read a book to learn more about a topic that you don’t know much about. Or simply read a book in a format that you don’t usually read. See the flyer for more information and also check it out using the following link: http://www.cbcbooks.org/reading-without-walls/ Mrs. Redford is allowing all 3rd graders to check out a third book to participate in this challenge! | |||
ECHO Field Trip On Friday, October 14th we will be going to ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain for a field trip connected to our science curriculum. We’ll be at ECHO from 9:00-2:00. There is no cost for this field trip because we (3rd grade teachers) received a free trip for summer course work we completed in July. We would like a few parent chaperones to help us make this trip possible, however we will limit it to 6 chaperones. Please call or email if you’d like to volunteer. If we get more than we need, we will have a drawing to choose parent chaperones at random. Thanks for your help! *Students will need to bring a Water bottle, snack, lunch from home OR order school lunch (form attached) for this trip. | |||
Contact Us Emily Ankerson: emily.ankerson@cesuvt.org Marie Ayer: marie.ayer@cesuvt.org Tonya Darby: tonya.darby@cesuvt.org (802) 434-2461 | |||
