Each week, I will list pertinent information about each subject, as well as, other useful school information. Please look at your child's math teacher's blog to check out what is going on in their classes. Thanks!
My Math Class
Third grade is a crucial year to memorize math facts. Students will be required to pass their times tables and I recommend using the flash cards at home on a regular basis. Mastering this skill provides students with a solid sense of numbers which helps them tremendously in all subareas of math. In my math class this upcoming week, students will be locating points on a number line, practicing place value, and discussing standard, expanded and word form.
Reading
This coming week we will start introducing the reading strategies that we will be utilizing throughout the rest of the year using picture books. The strategies are predicting, inferencing, visualizing, monitoring/clarifying, phonics/decoding, summarizing (fiction and non-fiction), questioning, connecting, and evaluating.
Spelling
This week in spelling we will start with Lesson 1. These are "Back to School" words. We will pretest on Monday and pass out a homework packet due Friday. We will be taking one of the homework sheets for a grade. On Friday we will have our first test worth 20 points.
English
Next week we will start with Chapter 1 in our English book: The Sentence. We will be talking about what a sentence is, the types of sentences, subjects/predicates and run-ons. Please encourage your child to speak in sentences at home to practice their understanding of correct sentence formation. You can also start a daily journal with them where you write them a question to answer in complete sentences.
Social Studies
This week will be spent learning our directions. We are going to make a compass rose, practice our directions playing Simon Says and going on a school-wide scavenger hunt.
Have a wonderful week!!
