Welcome! We are so excited to begin this school year
and know, working together, this will be the best year yet! Please check for this newsletter weekly, as
it will be your window into our classroom activities. Each week will include summaries of class
progress, homework, and upcoming quizzes or tests. Feel free to highlight important elements and
copy deadlines into your child’s planner to help them stay organized and
accountable as we begin this new year.
Please return the beginning of
the year packet by Wednesday!
Readers’ Workshop
We will begin by establishing routines and expectations for our
workshop time (read, read, read!). Our
ultimate goal this year is to foster a love of reading. Students will work to become self aware: identifying circumstances of past reading
success, making reading resolutions, and learning to recognize “Just Right”
books.
Writers’ Workshop
We will begin by setting up our writer’s notebook, which will house
our writing all year long. As a class,
we will review the habits of writers before beginning our first unit on
narratives.
Skills
Spelling is coming
soon. Look in the ROAR folder for lists and assignment choices. Spelling will
be tested on Fridays.
Math
After gathering
baseline data, we will begin the new school year with a mathematics unit about
addition and subtraction called Collection and Travel Stories. In this unit, students practice and refine
addition and subtraction strategies and focus on different types of subtraction
problems. They will work on
understanding the place value of 3-digit numbers and learn about the size of
the number 1,000.
Science
This year we
will be busy 3rd grade scientists!
We will begin our year gathering baseline data. We will then jump into our first unit,
focusing on the essential question “How do scientists work?” We will discuss
the importance of communication, making observations, recording data, making
inferences, and using a model.
Social Studies
We will begin
our Social Studies lessons next week, focusing on communities. Be sure to look at the ROAR folder for the
blue sheet.
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