Dec. 3-7

***THERE ARE A LOT OF NEW PICTURES IN THE NOVEMBER FOLDER IN THE BLOG***

Week of December 3rd - December 7th

Greetings,

We have had a great week in Grade 3 with lots of science experiments happening. Students started to explore how animal adaptations help them to survive by experimenting with blubber in icy water. Each class also recieved their own worm bin to observe worms in action over the coming weeks.

Next week we will have the opportunity to see the Elementary Holiday Concert. We will be going to watch our talented classmates perform on Wednesday morning, and will be having an adjusted morning recess and snack time.

This week begins on a day 1.

Reading Students will be applying their informational reading skills and will become an expert on a topic that interests them. They will need to find the main idea and supporting details and use these to teach others.

Writing Students are entering the final stages of the writing process by revising their information books and beginning to publish. They will be excited to share these with you.

Math Students will continue to work on multiplication problems and applying  their prior knowledge and understanding of place value to help with multiplying groups of tens. Students are also developing an understanding of sharing and grouping as they represent division.

Science Students will continue to investigate how animals adapt to survive. They will also explore how human impact can affect an ecosystem in both a positive and negative way.

Dec. 3-7th 2017- Choose 2 activities to complete before Friday to share in class.

Math: Teach someone at home how to play one of the multiplication math games you have been learning.	Language arts: Ask your parents to read a story or a chapter to you. This can be done in your home language. What did you read? What did you like about having read aloud time?	Language arts: Write a creative story in your home learning journal. Have an animal be the main character.
Math: Practice your basic multiplication facts (1-10).	Science If you could chose, what animal adaptation(s)  would you like to have? Draw a diagram of what you would look like and how your adaptations would help you in life.	Other: Build a fort and play a game or read a book in your fort.

Remember: Reading is just what we do. It is expected each night.

Nov. 12-16

Good Morning,

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and the International Fest on Saturday. Even though last week was a shortened week it was a wonderful week of learning and celebrations. Our first international flag parade at our new campus was a huge success and showcased how fortunate we are at ISKL to have such a diverse group of students. Check our class blogs to see the pictures from the parade.

Students continue to immerse themselves into our non-fiction reading and writing units. Choosing topics for their information books and organizing that information in a way that makes sense. Students are getting help by looking and reading different non-fiction texts and noticing how the author presents the information and what text features they use.

We look forward to a full week of learning this week!

This week will begin on Day 3

Reading Students will continue their work on talking about texts in conversation with their reading partners using prompts such as: This makes me think that.. I wonder.. It is important to notice that… Students will also determine perspective. One of the questions they will ask themselves as they read a text is: “Is the perspective or point of view of this topic different from the reader's’ point of view?” This foster the concept that authors can write about the same topic, but have varying perspectives.

Writing Students will work on connecting the information in their chapters by using different transitional strategies, phrases, and words. They will continue to study mentor texts to help develop ideas on how to best transition in their own informational books.

Math Students will begin to look at different subtraction strategies for three digit numbers. They will be using place value, number lines, decomposing, and a standard algorithm. As students become more familiar with subtracting strategies, they will select a strategy that they feel is effective. We will also begin to work on rounding when solving subtraction problems to check the reasonability of their answer.

Science Student will examine the interdependent elements of an ecosystem. (The consumers/producers, food chain, food web and the competitive relationships that help promote adaptation in the ecosystem.

November 12^th - 16^th, 2018  Choose 2 activities to complete before Friday to share in class.

Math: Write a 3-digit by 3-digit subtraction number story. Solve it and show your thinking	Language arts: Visit the website of the author Melissa Stewart and explore! Melissa-stewart.com	Language arts: As you read a nonfiction book, use these sentence starters to determine perspective: The author seems to feel… about this topic My evidence is… I agree/disagree with this perspective because...
Math: What is this? What math do you see? What questions do you have?	Science Draw a model of how living and nonliving things depend on each other in an ecosystem. Think: sun, plants, water, soil, animals, insects.	Other: Make something that will help you organize your things( pencils, artwork, toys).

Remember: Reading is just what we do. It is expected each night.

Nov. 5-9

It has been another busy week in grade 3 as we dove into our non-fiction reading and writing units. We ended the week with a wonderful field trip to FRIM and learned a lot about patterns and the different living and non-living elements in that diverse ecosystem. A HUGE thank you to our parent volunteers for helping make it a smooth trip. If you were one of our AMAZING parent volunteers and took pictures on your phone, we would love to add them to the folder of the field trip. You can add them to the folder I  shared with you, or send them to me via email. We would love to include them in our blog posts.

This week is a shorten week with no school on Tuesday in celebration of Deepavali!

There will be no after school activities on Monday due to the expected Deepavali traffic.

Friday will be our International Festival Flag Parade – This is an annual event at ISKL and students are encourage to wear clothing that represents their culture and wave flags in the parade.

This week we begin on Day 7

Reading Students will organize the bits of information in a nonfiction text into categories.  They will also teach others what they’ve learned from their nonfiction texts, paying close attention to the main ideas and supporting details.

Writing They will make plans for how to organize their information writing and try different organization structures on for size. Writers look at the different parts of an information text paragraph, breaking them apart and identifying their purpose. They will write an informational paragraph.

Math Students will continue to practice a variety of addition strategies to find the sum of 3-digit numbers. They will also be solving real world problems involving addition and measurement.

Science Students will look for commonalities among components of biomes in different locations, as well as adaptations that plants and animals make to these different biomes. They will begin to study food chains/food webs to think about the interconnectedness of living and non-living elements in an ecosystem.

November 5^th  – November 9^th

Math: Jesse practices the trumpet for a total of 165 minutes during the first week of school. He practices for 244 minutes during the second week. a.               Estimate the total amount of time Jesse practices by rounding to the nearest 10 minutes. b.              Estimate the total amount of time Jesse practices by rounding to the nearest 100 minutes.	Language arts: Make a list of things that strong informational authors include in their writing.	Language arts: Read an informational book and take research notes as you read. You can organize the notes into boxes and bullets. Then you can teach your new understanding to an audience.
Math: Practice your fact fluency (+ or - facts to 20) ·       Flashcards, online, games, worksheets, or game.	Science Design  your own ecosphere or closed terrarium. Draw and label your design in the home learning journal. If possible, make it!	Other: Go outside for a walk, observe the different biotic and abiotic (living and non-living) elements on your walk.

Remember: Reading is just what we do. It is expected each night.