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-Mon Mar 20, Fieldwork to Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals More information on this fieldwork to come soon! -Wed Apr 12, Fieldwork to OMSI Earthquake Lab We will need parent drivers for this trip! The program currently includes room for 5 chaperones, so preference will be given to those chaperones that can transport more students! We want to keep it at 5 chaperones, if possible, due to cost reasons. If needed, a lottery will be used. We are always in need of backup drivers, so even if you can't fit a lot of students please let us know if you're available! Thank you! Please email crew parent April at [email protected] by Mon March 20 if you can chaperone. Here is a link to our amazing Portland Bridges book that is available for purchase, but the ebook is free!: Hardcover, Softcover, PDF version (all paid) ebook version (FREE!) Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -Xtra math fluency practice xtramath.org (or multiplication flashcards) -spelling Math We are beginning to see an increase in fluency in our math facts! It is really exciting. Last week, we discussed the equal sign and what it means when you use it. We looked at equations such as 24 = 6 x 4 or 4 x 3 = 6 x 2 and determined whether or not they are true statements. We practiced saying "is the same as" instead of "equals." We also continued our work with fact families and practicing our Xtra math flashcards. Listen to your explain how to say the following expression is read 5 x 6 = 3 x 10 (five times six is the same as three times ten) Ask your student to tell you if the following expression is true or false, 3 x 4 = 12 / 3 Extend the learning by creating more expressions to practice at home Literacy This week we focused on central message. We talked about how the central message is the lesson that the author is trying to teach you. Sometimes, it can be pretty tricky to find the central message! So, we can ask ourselves the following questions to help guide us to the answer: What is the problem? What do the characters do about the problem? What lesson do the characters learn? What lesson does the author want you to learn? Listen to your student share the central message of Horton Hears a Who or The Sneetches Ask your student to give the definition of the central message of a story Extend the learning by reading some books together at home and discussing the central message Expedition We celebrated the end of our bridge expedition by strength testing them! You could really see the growth in their learning based on how much stronger our bridges turned out. Multiple bridges maxed out at 50 pounds! It was really exciting. We used the rest of the time to do extended literacy as well as team building activities. We played a game called Sticker Heads as well as Lift the Pole. Lift the Pole was especially challenging and allowed us to have a good conversation about what to do when we're feeling frustrated or stuck when collaborating. Listen to your student share how much weight their bridge held Ask them to describe our games Sticker Heads and Lift the Pole Extend the learning by asking them what they are most excited about for our upcoming geology unit! Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
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-Mon Mar 20, Fieldwork to Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals We will need parent drivers for this trip, so if you are available to drive please email our crew parent April at [email protected] with the maximum number of students you are able to drive with car seats. This is a half day fieldwork, we are expected to be back at school by 11:30a. Please let April know by Thursday if you are available to chaperone. Thank you! -Tue Mar 7, Art Opening Party, 3:30 - 5:00 The 3rd grade crew will have art from our bridge expedition on display at News Seasons Orenco Station for the month of March. The art opening party will be in the dining area. New Seasons, 1453 NE 61st Ave -Friday March 10 (this Friday!) is a full day Friday! Students will be released at 2:45p EL Night was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who was able to make it out. I loved hearing the students share our learning process and be really proud of our final products. Thank you for all of your support! Here is a link to our amazing Portland Bridges book that is available for purchase, but the ebook is free!: Hardcover, Softcover, PDF version (all paid) ebook version (FREE!) Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -Xtra math fluency practice xtramath.org (or multiplication flashcards) and math game homework -spelling Math We continued building our understanding of division this week by practicing more story problems as well as problems on whiteboards. We had a lengthy discussion on how to tell when to multiply in a problem and when to divide. Ms. Kerry made a flow chart that helped us realize that when you start with the total number and are told how many groups there are that means you divide! When you are told the number of groups and how many are in each group that means you multiply. Then, we learned about fact families which describe the relationship between multiplication and division. Listen to your explain how to tell when a word problem can be solved using multiplication or division Ask your student to create the equations in a triangle fact family (here is a link to see how we have been setting it up in class https://youtu.be/qicxGq3t43M) Extend the learning by practicing both multiplication and division problems at home Literacy In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday and Read Across American Day, we spent a lot of time this week reading Dr. Seuss books. On Dr. Seuss day, we took the time to read for 30 minutes with our reading buddies and celebrated with cool Dr. Seuss pencils and erasers. During this next week we will continue studying Dr. Seuss books and think about the central message or what he is trying to teach us from each book. Listen to your student share which is their favorite Dr. Seuss book Ask your student to summarize what happened in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day by Dr. Seuss Extend the learning by reading some Dr. Seuss books together at home and discussing the central message Expedition We spent our time in expedition this week putting the finishing touches on our final products and practicing sharing our learning in pairs. Some aspects we focused on included speaking in a calm voice with appropriate volume and making eye contact with the audience. We made sure to talk about while it is great to show off the finished product, we also wanted to focus on explaining the process of our learning. Listen to your student share their favorite thing about EL night Ask them to describe what the most challenging thing about EL night was for them Extend the learning by telling them what you were most proud of on EL night Please let me know if you have any questions or comments! Important Dates/Information
-Thursday Mar 2, Dr. Seuss Day (Read Across America Day) I have planned a fun day of reading on Thursday. The students are working toward either a pajama or bring a stuffed animal to school day based on good behavior. I will let you all know Wednesday afternoon if they've earned this special prize! -Thursday Mar 2, EL Night 6:30 - 8:00p Please join us as the students' final products are showcased. This is an opportunity for the students to lead you through our process of learning. -Tue Mar 7, Art Opening Party, 3:30 - 5:00 The 3rd grade crew will have art from our bridge expedition on display at News Seasons Orenco Station for the month of March. The art opening party will be in the dining area. New Seasons, 1453 NE 61st Ave http://cvcsgrade3crew.weebly.com/ Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -Xtra math fluency practice xtramath.org (or multiplication flashcards) -book report due Tues 2/28 -spelling Math This week, we started division. We used story problem examples to understand that division is splitting a number into equal groups. Individually, we worked on whiteboards to practice representing division in different ways. We used equal groups, repeated subtraction, and the number line to represent different problems. We had a good discussion on how different strategies will work for different people. Many of us really understand division by using equal groups, while others prefer the number line. Listen to your student explain what division is Ask your student to represent and solve 12 / 4 using either equal groups, repeated subtraction, or the number line Extend the learning by practicing division problems at home Literacy We started the second book in the Upside Down magic series called Sticks & Stones and we love it so far! Reading series books can be fun because the setting and characters are familiar and it gives us a great opportunity to compare and contrast the stories. We also did a lesson on the difference between the main idea and topic of a text. This is something many of us have been struggling with, so doing a whole group lesson helped to clarify this. We learned that the topic of a text is the general subject, while the main idea is what is specifically being said about the topic or the point the article is trying to get across. Listen to your student describe what has happened so far in Sticks & Stones Ask your student to explain the difference between the topic and main idea of a text Extend the learning by watching the BrainPop video that we used to help us understand this https://youtu.be/THX0XRB54Yk Expedition We have been using expedition this week to build our bridge models and put the finishing touches on our bridge proposals and sketches. It has been great to see how much the students have grown over the course of this expedition in their ability to persevere when building bridges becomes difficult. In pairs, we worked on Chromebooks to type up our proposals and will begin conferencing with Ms. Kerry for final revisions and edits. Listen to your student describe how it was for them to use Chromebooks in class Ask them to describe the process of building a bridge the second time around Extend the learning by discussing the bridge proposal found here: http://www.edcarpenter.net/portfolio/wildwood-trail-bridge/ |
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