Tuesday, December 11

House Keeping

Dear Families,

For those students that are engaging in our Home Reading Program, we have a few reminders and updates at this time of year:

• Students that have been accessing Home Reading, but are now reading at a level L or above will no longer be receiving Home Reading Books after school returns in January.  Our Home Reading Program supports students below level L, as many of the texts that students are able to access in the Learning Commons, and through the Book Truck as well as within the rich literacy experiences in our classroom are accessible for students at that level.
• If you have more than one child at our school that is participating in Home Reading, please make sure that the books that come home are returned to school in the specific Home Reading bag that they came home in.  We have had some difficulty with siblings returning each other’s books, which has caused some confusion for our lovely Home Reading Ladies and their tracking system. Your assistance in keeping the books organized is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for supporting your child as they become stronger and more confident readers!

Mrs. Mitschke

Resource Teacher

Spirit Week
Spirit week is next week, please see the small green handout that was sent home last week. Next Monday, December 17th is pajama day.

Key Arches Vocabulary:

Arch

Curve

Span

Gap

Suppor

Abutments

Load

Weight

Compression

Force

Outward

Downward

Math 

Students are now applying their multiplicative thinking into a real-life situation. Students were given a recipe for exactly one cake in a cup. They are needing to multiply the recipe to make one cake for everybody at home. Please see the 'I Can' statements below to see what students will need to think about and represent in their work. Students are also working on how to approach a word problem through the 'CUBES' strategy. 

Inquiry
For inquiry, we have started building objects and learning about forces, arches, and strong shapes. Students will be flex grouping between all 5 grade three classrooms in order to experience a variety of foundational building principles through STEM challenges. 

Literacy
Students are exploring different perspectives in fictional texts to finish out the year. We have read, discussed and written about the different perspectives in both of these books below.