Our Last Full Week!

We are starting our last full week of school!  Here are our learning goals for the next five days:

Reading: Continue with The Trumpet of the Swan and associated tasks for examine story elements and comprehension skills

Spelling:  This is our last spelling unit!  We are practicing words that end with -er or -le.

Math: Geometry-compare and contrast polygons

Research Projects: Animals (using websites for information)

Art: Continue weaving projects

May 16 to 20

Hello!  We will be finishing our standardized testing this week!  Yippee!  The students have been doing SO WELL on them.  They have had very positive attitudes and incredible focus.  I am so proud of how far they have come this year in their learning. The students will be completing their SRI Reading tests in order to evaluate their spring Lexile scores.  They will also be finishing their NWEA MAP Math tests.

Reading: The students will be reading The Trumpet of the Swan with the whole class. We will be doing daily activities that reinforce our reading, including using maps and directions, drawing pictures to imagine what happens, and predicting what will happen next.

Math: We are going to be finishing our practice with fractions, introducing perimeter and area, and completing the NWEA MAP test.

Science/Research: Each student will be researching an animal and its adaptations.  They will be recording what they learn, and they will then create a google slide presentation.

Spelling: No spelling this week.

Please note that different grade levels have various field days.  Our field day will be from 1:00-2:15 on Friday, May 27th.  This is a change from previous years.

Have a delightful week!
Miss Kimpton

Spelling Test Date Change

The spelling test will be on next Friday, May 13, for Unit 33: Words with "ough" and "augh".

May 2 to 5

Reading: The students will be comparing and contrasting various adaptations of living things.  They are also starting our last novel for the year, The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White.

Word Work/Grammar: Correct Capitalization

Spelling: Words with ough and augh

Math: We will be working on fractions on a number line, equivalent fractions, relating fractions to whole numbers, and the fractions identifying a group

Testing: NWEA MAP Language test

Apr 25 to 29

Oh my!  It's the last week of April! Time is sure flying by this spring.  

Our work this week will include:

Reading: The students will finish reading "How to Steal a Dog" and will be recalling and retelling events from the story.  In our small reading groups, they will be investigating further various features of extreme environments and adaptations of living things that help them survive.

Word Work: Noun Suffixes

Spelling: Double Consonant

Math: The third-graders continue to work with fractions in their GoMath workbooks to understand the various quantities and divisions.  They will be ordering them on number lines, building whole amounts based on the fractions, and making fraction strips.  

We spend a lot of time using different materials to act out problems.  Here, eight people (markers) are sharing 4 sandwiches (pink paper).  These types of activities really help students understand what it means to separate whole amounts into equal pieces. 

Week of April 18 to 22

Reading: The third-graders are continuing to read How to Steal a Dog with Mr. Groshans' class.
We are also starting Unit 6: Extreme Environments in our reading materials.  The students will be investigating the question "What does it take to survive in the wild?".

Spelling: 2-syllable words with a VCCV pattern

Math: We are investigating fractions using many, many hands-on activities.  We are learning the names for various fractions (halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eights), words used in describing fractions (parts, whole, numerator, denominator), and the relative sizes of fractions. We will be working through the lessons in Chapter 8 on equal parts, equal shares, unit fractions, and fractions of a whole.

Please remember that Friday will be a day of no school!  School resumes on Monday.

Thank you!
Miss Kimpton

Thinking Balloons!

Your kids may have told already told you, but they started the week with "Testing Survival Kits". In each kit, they have new materials to help them solve math problems and "thinking tools" to stretch or mold as they work.  Today, they made their own "Thinking Balloons" filled with sand or gravel.  It was a great way to start our day, and they are great tools for kiddos to hold in their hands as they work!