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Weekly Update 5.17.22

By In News & Updates On May 17, 2022


Be on the lookout for…

  • Tuesday folders will not come home today. 
  • THIS WEEK is our 3rd grade Food Truck Rodeo/Oakview spring chorus concert on Thurs, May 19th.  Your child will be staying afterschool until you arrive. You are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, towels, etc to post up on the lawn and enjoy the DJ and concert! Please see event details on class dojo and let me know if you have any questions!
  • We will do more math and reading review over the next several weeks in order to revisit some past concepts and ensure we are ready for end of grade testing. You will notice reading passages coming home with “PARTY at the top. Please remind students to actually apply this reading strategy when reading for best performance! 
  • Our class will do EOG testing on the following days: Reading- Fri May 27 and Math- Wed June 1st. 
  • There is no school Monday May 30th due to Memorial Day.
  • Order your yearbook here!
  • We have a ton of fun things planned for this last month, and especially the last week of school. Thank you to all who have already signed up and sent in items to support these fun efforts! View the sign up here if you want to check your signup or contribute!

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.

Our students are working SO hard on their Public Service Announcements (PSA’s) regarding the inequality of clean water in our world. We read the story of Salva Dut, a lost boy from Southern Sudan who overcame incredible hardships to eventually find a better life, then give back to those still living in extreme poverty. Students had a hard time not DOing something, so we have joined the Iron Giraffe Challenge which is a competition among schools to raise money for an amazing cause. Your child will share their homework with you tonight! Please feel free to ask them questions and have them discuss their research and new knowledge. word-PSA

This week in Math:

The last remaining unit of our math curriculum continues 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: ALL of it!

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, capacity, gallon, quart, pint, cup, weight, mass, ounce, pound, ton, minute, hour, elapsed

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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