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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!
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