 |
| The Spelling tests were pretty poor this week. |
 |
| April Fools! |
Friday, April 1, 2016
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Moving Lines Art Project
Here are some photos showing our most recent art project using rulers to measure and draw straight lines. The students then cut the original paper into strips, and organized them in a fan arrangement.
March 29 to April 1
Hello families! Report cards for 3rd quarter will be coming home on Friday, so watch for them in your child's folder. Here are the learning goals for the week:
Reading: The class is reading How to Steal a Dog, and they are continuing to identify the various story elements. In the small groups, they will be reading biographies and choosing a person that they would like to research. Research will be through books and the internet. They are also focusing on character traits of various people in history.
Word Work: Adjectives (used to describe a noun and to compare objects)
Spelling: Suffixes (-ful, -ly, -er)
Math: The students are working on Ch. 6 Understanding Division. Specifically, they will be relating multiplication and division, solving problems to use division, and working through various strategies to divide.
Test Prep: Daily, the students will be working on the Smarter Balanced Practice Tests to get familiar with the testing format.
Enjoy your week!
Miss Kimpton
Reading: The class is reading How to Steal a Dog, and they are continuing to identify the various story elements. In the small groups, they will be reading biographies and choosing a person that they would like to research. Research will be through books and the internet. They are also focusing on character traits of various people in history.
Word Work: Adjectives (used to describe a noun and to compare objects)
Spelling: Suffixes (-ful, -ly, -er)
Math: The students are working on Ch. 6 Understanding Division. Specifically, they will be relating multiplication and division, solving problems to use division, and working through various strategies to divide.
Test Prep: Daily, the students will be working on the Smarter Balanced Practice Tests to get familiar with the testing format.
Enjoy your week!
Miss Kimpton
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Mar 7 to 11
Hello Families! We had a magnificent time yesterday at the Alberta Bair Theater watching The BFG. What a treat that we were able to go and enjoy it. Thank you to the community for offering it to us!
Reading: We will continue reading Frindle this week. Many of the reading strategies we will be using this week will be comparing and contrasting (The BFG movie, book, play) with a triple Venn diagram, making and writing opinions, and defining character traits.
Math: We are currently working on hands-on activities that give the students practice with estimating, graphing, multiplying, and dividing. We are also working on taking a total amount and putting it into groups (we are building a solid understanding of division).
Spelling: Words ending with -ed and -ing
Writing: The third-graders will be writing their own elaborated sentences to turn Humpty Dumpty into their own sentences and stories.
On Friday, we will be visiting the 5th-grade Wax Museum. The 5th-graders have researched people from history, and they will be dressing up as the wax character. For a coin (penny, nickel, dime, or quarter), they will answer a question. If possible, please send your child to school with five or more coins so they can participate!
We will also have the school carnival from 6-8 on Friday night! Come join the fun and games!
Enjoy the remainder of your week!
Miss Kimpton
Reading: We will continue reading Frindle this week. Many of the reading strategies we will be using this week will be comparing and contrasting (The BFG movie, book, play) with a triple Venn diagram, making and writing opinions, and defining character traits.
Math: We are currently working on hands-on activities that give the students practice with estimating, graphing, multiplying, and dividing. We are also working on taking a total amount and putting it into groups (we are building a solid understanding of division).
Spelling: Words ending with -ed and -ing
Writing: The third-graders will be writing their own elaborated sentences to turn Humpty Dumpty into their own sentences and stories.
On Friday, we will be visiting the 5th-grade Wax Museum. The 5th-graders have researched people from history, and they will be dressing up as the wax character. For a coin (penny, nickel, dime, or quarter), they will answer a question. If possible, please send your child to school with five or more coins so they can participate!
We will also have the school carnival from 6-8 on Friday night! Come join the fun and games!
Enjoy the remainder of your week!
Miss Kimpton
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Week of Feb. 29 to Mar. 4
Hello! This week, we have/will be working on:
Reading: We are starting Frindle by Andre Clements. The students will be predicting, questioning, and drawing images from their minds as we read.
Leap Day: We did a few fun activities to investigate Leap Years, including comparing calendars from various years, identifying the Leap Years, and using the dictionary to make words from February Twenty-Ninth.
Spelling: Unit 23 Contractions
Math: We are starting division this week! All week, the students will be investigating the process of division through sharing various materials. They will be learning how to use the proper symbols to write equations, and they will be relating multiplication to division.
Writing: The third-graders will be adding details to the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" to answer the questions Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How? They will then practice writing elaborated sentences for each part of they rhyme.
This class is filled with so many responsible kids that we are instituting Gum Fridays. They will be allowed to bring gum to school to chew on Fridays. The rules are:
1. Bring your own gum.
2. No sharing
3. Chewed gum goes in the garbage.
4. Gum is allowed only in our classroom.
Enjoy this first week of March!
Miss Kimpton
Reading: We are starting Frindle by Andre Clements. The students will be predicting, questioning, and drawing images from their minds as we read.
Leap Day: We did a few fun activities to investigate Leap Years, including comparing calendars from various years, identifying the Leap Years, and using the dictionary to make words from February Twenty-Ninth.
Spelling: Unit 23 Contractions
Math: We are starting division this week! All week, the students will be investigating the process of division through sharing various materials. They will be learning how to use the proper symbols to write equations, and they will be relating multiplication to division.
Writing: The third-graders will be adding details to the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" to answer the questions Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How? They will then practice writing elaborated sentences for each part of they rhyme.
This class is filled with so many responsible kids that we are instituting Gum Fridays. They will be allowed to bring gum to school to chew on Fridays. The rules are:
1. Bring your own gum.
2. No sharing
3. Chewed gum goes in the garbage.
4. Gum is allowed only in our classroom.
Enjoy this first week of March!
Miss Kimpton
Monday, February 22, 2016
February 22 to 26
Hello! Just a quick reminder that we have class pictures Tuesday, Feb. 23, as well as individual Spring pictures for anybody that orders them.
Here is a look at our learning goals for the week:
Reading: We will be reading the last chapters of The BFG. Over the following few days, the students will be recalling and retelling events in order to determine the plot, events, and solutions of the story. We will then be watching the movie and comparing and contrasting the two different versions.
Word Work: The students will be identifying and using the prefixes mon- and di- to determine the meaning of words. They will also have practice with similes.
Math: We will be wrapping up our multiplication practice and completing the test on Wednesday. The students will then be investigating the beginning of fractions.
Science: In our small reading groups, each student will be reading about the ways that humans are part of Earth's story. They will be using this information for writing.
Have a great week!
Miss Kimpton
Here is a look at our learning goals for the week:
Reading: We will be reading the last chapters of The BFG. Over the following few days, the students will be recalling and retelling events in order to determine the plot, events, and solutions of the story. We will then be watching the movie and comparing and contrasting the two different versions.
Word Work: The students will be identifying and using the prefixes mon- and di- to determine the meaning of words. They will also have practice with similes.
Math: We will be wrapping up our multiplication practice and completing the test on Wednesday. The students will then be investigating the beginning of fractions.
Science: In our small reading groups, each student will be reading about the ways that humans are part of Earth's story. They will be using this information for writing.
Have a great week!
Miss Kimpton
Thursday, February 4, 2016
First Week of February!
Reading: We are continuing the book, The BFG, by Roald Dahl. We will be working on visualizing (picturing what is happening in the story) this week.
Word World: Contractions
Spelling: Unit 20, Words with /j/ and /s/
Math: The students are continuing their work with multiplication. They've been practicing the Distributive Property of Multiplication (the students are breaking apart a multiplication equation into parts they know, and then they are adding the products together), as well as other various strategies.
Writing: This week, we are focusing specifically on the Idea trait of writing. We are staying on one topic and further exploring that theme.
To help you with knowing how your kiddo is doing on his/her assignments, we've started writing the percentages in their planners and circling them (beside the initial place that we wrote the assignment). I know that you receive a lot of papers from home, and I am also aware that you may not always get your child's work. It is difficult to communicate what paperwork we do each day. I hope that this helps clarify your third-grader's work. Please talk to your child about showing you his/her work in order to keep you updated and to celebrate the successes.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Thank you!
Miss Kimpton
Word World: Contractions
Spelling: Unit 20, Words with /j/ and /s/
Math: The students are continuing their work with multiplication. They've been practicing the Distributive Property of Multiplication (the students are breaking apart a multiplication equation into parts they know, and then they are adding the products together), as well as other various strategies.
Writing: This week, we are focusing specifically on the Idea trait of writing. We are staying on one topic and further exploring that theme.
To help you with knowing how your kiddo is doing on his/her assignments, we've started writing the percentages in their planners and circling them (beside the initial place that we wrote the assignment). I know that you receive a lot of papers from home, and I am also aware that you may not always get your child's work. It is difficult to communicate what paperwork we do each day. I hope that this helps clarify your third-grader's work. Please talk to your child about showing you his/her work in order to keep you updated and to celebrate the successes.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Thank you!
Miss Kimpton
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)