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Weekly Update 5.9.23

By In News & Updates On May 9, 2023


Be on the lookout…

  • TODAY Tuesday, May 9th is an early release day.
  • Tuesday folders will come home FRIDAY this week with interim reports.
  • 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. Please remind students to actually apply the PARTY reading strategy when reading for best performance! 
  • 🗓️ NEXT Tuesday, May 16th will be our 3rd grade Food Truck Rodeo and Oakview’s Spring Fling. Please see the attached flyer for more info.  Students will stay afterschool as apart of our economics project presentations. Have you filled out the RSVP form!?  Families are invited to join us 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 coming soon! Our class will test on the following days: Reading- Fri May 26 and Math- Wed May 31st. Please do all you can so your child can be here on those days and have a great testing experience! 

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 wartorn 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 part of our proceeds from the Food Truck Rodeo sharing/Family night will go to Water for Southern Sudan. Please see this flyer for more info on the cause and what we are doing to help.  word- takeaction

This week in Math:

We are on our last remaining unit of our math curriculum 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

This week 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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