Classroom news for the week of February 23rd
Reminders:
Tuesday: STAAR Ready for reading administered this day for all 3rd
grade
Wednesday: Engineering Day
Thursday: No Library Day this week
February 25th – Talent Show
Please check Kathy Caraway website for school-wide events
Language Arts:
Spelling words: nap, neck, need, nice, nine, nothing,
number, outside, page, pail, path, pay, peas, pen, pencil
Writing Workshop: This week we will complete writing our
research papers and they will be posted in the hallway by the beginning of next
week. Our focus is writing our final drafts and designing our cover. I had hoped to have this
finished last week, but we need to extend it one more week! J
Reading Workshop: This week we will continue our unit on
“Looking Through the Informational Lens”. We will continue to practice
how to summarize nonfiction using who, what, when, where, why and how
strategy. We will also learn about homophones and continue practicing our
strategies with different reading passages.
Math: Last week we focused on learning multiplication and
division strategies for 9’s and this week we will continue with our 6’s. I encourage all my students to work on
memorizing their math facts daily!
Although we use strategies to help the children figure out how to solve,
our ultimate goal in math facts is memory! J
Social Studies: This week we will continue our unit on
“The Free Enterprise System in our World: Thinking Like an Economist”.
This week we will focus on personal finances and the children will begin a
really fun simulation where they will think about what they want to be when
they grow up and see if they can live within a budget.
We will also have an Engineering Day on Wednesday where the
students will get to visit two different speakers in our grade level and
participate in two different science activities during the morning hours of
that day.
