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Schedule change! We are going to the library on Tuesday this week instead of Wednesday to accommodate a split art day with the second grade class. So, please have your student bring their library book back on Tuesday. Thank you! Donation Requests: -disinfecting wipes -healthy individually packaged snacks (for those students who forget snack) Missing Audio book! We are on the great audio book hunt! We are currently missing The Magic Treehouse books 25-29 from the library. If you somehow ended up with it at home (or overnight drivers it might possibly be in your cars) please go ahead and return it to the public library. Thank you so much! Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -Spelling words (just so nobody is confused, these didn't make it out this past week due to the shorter catch up week, but they will be going out this week!) -Math home connections Math We kicked off our week by reviewing some difficult geometry concepts that our assessments showed we needed a bit more work on. Then, we dove into multiplication! As a class, we came up with a group chart on different groups of things. For example arms, eyes, and ears come in pairs of twos; tricycle wheels in groups of three; points on a star in groups of five. It was fun to hear what the students came up with over their snow day! Then we looked at a hexagon pattern and explored how sometimes we can look at problems as repeated addition, but also as multiplication facts. Listen to your student explain what part of their assessment needed corrections Ask your student to make a few interesting groups of things that we came up with in class Extend the learning by finding repeated addition patterns and turning them into multiplication facts Literacy This week we learned about writing a strong topic sentence in hamburger paragraphs. We learned that the topic sentence introduces the reader to the topic of that paragraph or what it will mainly be about! Then, we practiced writing sentences that add spark to the paragraph and will captivate our reader. Starting topic sentence are often the hardest part, so we used a few sentences starters such as "If...then...," "since," and "when" to hep us get going. Listen to your student explain what a topic sentence is Ask them to name you a few ways we could start a topic sentence Extend the learning by reading some books together as a family to learn about how different authors use topic sentences Expedition We are continuing to revise our bridge writing. The third graders have been meeting individually with me to discuss their changes and make further improvements. We have also begun the art piece of our bridges, we will be using water color and sharpies to make detailed drawings of our bridges. Listen to your student explain how our revising process has been working and how they feel about it (we have been talking a lot about how challenging it can be!) Ask them to describe some revisions they have made to their own writing Extend the learning by practicing drawing bridges together as a family Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
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