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Weekly Update 4.19.22

By In News & Updates On April 19, 2022


Be on the lookout for…

  • Tuesday folders will NOT come home today. Look for a folder next week.
  • There is a teacher workday Monday, May 2nd. No school for students that day.
  • Reminder- If your child read to Hawaii and received an invite to our luau it is this Thursday 4/21. You should have received a message with an invite and a link to the Google Form confirming rsvp and who will pick them up.
  • Order your yearbook here!
  • Please mark your calendars for our 3rd grade Food Truck Rodeo/Oakview spring chorus concert. More details will be coming forth, but THURS MAY 19th, students will be asked to stay afterschool as apart of our economics project presentations. Families will be invited to join their students in our classroom, and then enjoy the 4 food trucks that will be here. You are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, towels, etc to post up on the lawn and enjoy the DJ and concert!
  • EOG testing dates are pictured above. Our class will test on the following days: Reading- Fri May 27 and Math- Wed June 1st. Please do all you can so your child can be here on those days and have a great testing experience! word-testingiscoming

This week in Literacy:

In Module 4 we will explore the impact of water around the world! Find out standards, goals, and more by clicking this link to the parent information letter.

This week in Math:

The last remaining unit of our math curriculum begins this week with some more measurement concepts. Students will learn about US Customary measurement of length (in, ft, yd, mile), capacity (cup, pint, quart, gallon), and weight (oz, lb, ton). To assist parents in helping their kids I have included a guide. I know I had to refresh myself on some of these, so hopefully this makes things easier! 

Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes

Current vocab: capacity, gallon, quart, pint, cup, weight, mass, ounce, pound, ton

Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus, arrays, repeated addition, area, perimeter, rectilinear area, commutative property (flip flop rule), number line, product, distributive (break apart method), associative property, graphs, pictographs, bar graphs, numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model, inch, foot, yard, mile, measure, length, width

In Social Studies:

3.E.1 Understand how economic decisions and resources affect the local economy.

3.E.1.1 Explain how entrepreneurship develops local communities.

3.E.1.2 Explain how the natural resources of a region impact the production and consumption of goods in local communities.

3.E.1.3 Summarize the role supply and demand plays in local economies.


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