Meadows Valley 3rd Grade
News for the week of January 23rd- 27th
Weekly news letters can be found at the district web page at www.mvsd11.org
A
Peek At This Week:
Reading: We will be working on the following skills through the story Night of the Pufflings.
- Comprehension: Evaluate; Fact and Opinion
- Vocabulary: The Parts
of Speech in a Dictionary
- Phonics Decoding: Syllabication and Review
- Grammar: The Verb be
- Spelling Review: vowel + r sounds in hair
Writing: Last week the students did an awesome job on writing dialogue and writing opinion
paragraph. We used the wordless “Carl Books” to write dialogue and they were very persuasive
with their opinion paragraphs. This week we will be working on Taking Notes. The
objectives for this week are:
- Identify note taking as a strategy
for remembering important information.
- Take notes to record information.
- Improve
note taking by choosing the most important information.
- Learn academic language: note taking, heading.
Math:
We will be wrapping up Unit 5 Place
Value in Whole Numbers and Decimals. Unit 5 has three main area of focus:
- To extend previous lessons on the base-ten place value system to whole numbers through millions and to decimals
through thousandths,
- To apply these concepts to reading, writing, comparing, and ordering whole numbers
and decimals, and
- To use whole numbers and decimals in real-life contexts.
This week’s lesson
objectives are:
- Monday – Lesson 5.11 – Place
Value in Decimal – T provide practice for decimal place value to thousandths
- Tuesday – Lesson
5.12 – Sunrise-Sunset Line Graphs – To guide children as they analyze data from the sunrise-Sunset routine; and
to demonstrate how to make and read a line graph.
- Wednesday – Lesson 5.13 – Progress
Check 5 – To assess children progress on mathematical content through the end of Unit 5.
- Thursday
– Lesson 6.1 – Investigating Line Segments, Rays, and Lines – To review line segments; and to introduce
rays and lines.
Science – Classification of Animals
We will be wrapping up this unit. Throughout this unit students have been
engaged in projects and activities that cover the following content:
- Vertebrates vs. Invertebrates
- Warm Blooded vs. Cold Blooded
- Reptiles
- Amphibians
- Fish
- Mammals
- Birds
Upcoming
Events:
- Jan. 31st – Aspen's Birthday
- Feb.
20th – President’s Day – No School
· Feb. 27th – Teacher Training Day – No School for Students
Meadows Valley 3rd Grade
News for the week of January 16th - 20th
We
have had a great end to the second quarter. We are all so very happy that Drew's surgery went well
and he is out of the hospital and we can't wait for him and Robert to be back with us. This week we
have started a couple of exciting new programs; trout in the classroom and Learning through Movement class with Payette Dance
Academy. We will be raising the trout starting at the egg stage. At the end
of the year we will be releasing the fish at the Meadow Creek Pond. The movement classes will take
place every Tuesday from 12:30 – 1:30 for the next eight weeks. These should be fun and engaging
activities for your children to help supplement our third grade program.
Weekly
news letters can be found on my web page as www.mvsd11.org
A Peek At This Week:
We
are at the end of our theme in our language arts program which gives us opportunities to review in skills or content that
we need to work on more.
Reading:
We will be working on the following skills
through the short stories Fugitives on Four Legs and Dinosaur Bob.
· Comprehension: Story Structure
·
Vocabulary: Using a Thesaurus
·
Phonics Decoding: Prefixes un-, bi-,
dis-, mis-, and non-
·
Grammar: Present, Past, and Future
Verbs
·
Spelling Review: vowel sounds in
clown and lawn, vowel + r sounds, j, k and kw sounds, and homophones
Writing: This
week we will review writing opinion paragraphs and dialogue. The objectives for this week are:
·
Identify the characteristics of good
dialogue.
·
Write dialogue for story characters.
·
Use capital letters and punctuation
correctly with dialogue.
· Learn academic language: dialogue
And continue with:
·
Identify the characteristics of a
good opinion paragraph.
· Write and opinion paragraph.
· Use commas correctly with introductory phrases.
Math: We
will be continuing Unit 5 Place Value in Whole Numbers and Decimals. We were unable to finish
lesson 5.8 last week, sorry if that caused any confusion with the homework. Unit 5 has three main area
of focus:
·
To extend previous lessons on the
base-ten place value system to whole numbers through millions and to decimals through thousandths,
·
To apply these concepts to reading,
writing, comparing, and ordering whole numbers and decimals, and
· To use whole numbers and decimals in real-life contexts.
This
week’s lesson objectives are:
· Monday – Lesson 5.8 – To model tenths and hundredths
with base- 10 blocks; and to model exchanges between tenths and hundredths.
·
Tuesday – Lesson 5.9 –
To demonstrate the use of decimal notation for metric measures and the conversion to meters.
·
Wednesday – Lesson 5.10 –
To introduce thousandths by revisiting millimeters; and to provide opportunities to interpret data from a map.
·
Thursday – Lesson 5.11 –
To provide practice for decimal place value to thousandths.
Science
– Classification of Animals
We
will be wrapping up the majority of this unit this week, with the exception of a couple of activities. Throughout
this unit students will be engaged in projects and activities that cover the following content:
·
Vertebrates vs. Invertebrates
·
Warm Blooded vs. Cold Blooded
·
Reptiles
·
Amphibians
·
Fish
·
Mammals
·
Birds
Upcoming Events:
· Jan. 16th – Civil Rights Day – No School
·
Jan. 19th – Robert,
Drew, and Nathan's Birthday
· Jan. 31st – Aspen's Birthday
·
Feb. 20th – President’s
Day – No School
·
Feb. 27th – Teacher
Training Day – No School for Students
Meadows Valley 3rd Grade
