Snapshot for January 3

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Week of: January 3, 2018

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone has had and wonderful 2 week break and was able to stay warm!

Upcoming Dates
Wednesday, January 3	First Day Back!
Friday, January 5	PRIDE Parties
Tuesday, January 9	Timed Test (all facts so far)
Tuesday, January 9	College Shirt Day
Monday, January 15	NO SCHOOL - MLK
Week of January 16	Midyear MAP Testing
Tuesday, January 16	7s Timed Test

 THIS WEEK IN MATH:

In math this week we are continuing personal finance literacy. Students will be learning about economics and keeping a budget. They will also be learning about how a budget can help to manage money that is earned, how credit is used to buy things you may not otherwise be able to afford, how money borrowed must be paid back and other skills.

Vocabulary cards for personal finance literacy will be sent home in your child’s daily take home folder for them to study throughout the week. Please be sure that your child keeps these in their take home folder, as we will need them in class throughout the week, as well.

**Showing Work: Please double check to make sure your child is showing their work on their math homework.

Students have gotten much better at showing work on classroom assignments, but a reminder from home will help to reinforce that justifying our answers is an expectation.

Math Resources to Help at Home

Division Math Practice – In this drag racing game, your child can practice division facts while racing against the computer or other players.

Students in third grade must master their multiplication facts with automaticity.  This means they are to recall these facts quickly.  Each Tuesday, we have a two minute test over the facts we have studied for the previous week.  Notes have been sent home each week before our upcoming test to explain this. This week, we do not have a timed test.  We will resume timed multiplication testing January 9 over all of the facts we have tested over so far. These are facts in the 0s, 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 8s and 10s. The following week, January 16, we will test over 7s.

SKILL PRACTICE WEBSITES

Free Training Tutorial - Division - This link will take you to the division page. If you would like to practice other skills with your child, you can search through them on the website’s home page.

Regrouping is definitely a skill that needs to be reviewed often in addition and subtraction.  Many of our students are showing a need for this.  Under Subtraction, there is a two-digit with regrouping basketball game that would be a great practice if your child wants to strengthen this skill.

That Quiz  - Under Integers, click Arithmetic.  Adjust length, level, and time as needed.  Click the box for multiplication to let your child practice their facts.

Multiplication – Lots of free and entertaining games to practice multiplication facts.

Education Galaxy – Use the skills practice section for math to practice multiplication facts.

Turtle Diary Division Games - Use these games to practice division and multiplication facts. Change the topics or grade level to review different skills, or bump up to a more challenging level!

Personal Financial Literacy – In the game. Road Trip to Savings, your child will make decisions about income, expenses, and savings.

Hands on Banking – In this game, your child will learn about managing their money using a budget. This is a great review of the money managing game that we played before the break.

BrainPOP - Budgets – This video about budgets is another great review with plenty of useful vocabulary to help your child as we move through this unit. There are also a few games that go along with this video that can be found here, or by clicking on the games box on the right side of the screen where the video loads. 

THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE:

In science this week, we will begin looking at force, energy and motion. Over the course of this week, we will be focusing on looking at different forms of energy, including mechanical, light, sound and thermal and how we see those different forms of energy in everyday life.

We have also been looking at different topics and questions for Science Fair. The main areas that 3^rd grade has focused on are motion, force, living organisms, physical properties, forms of energy and natural resources.

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE

Turtle Diary - Energy Games – Turtle diary has 2 different sound energy games to choose from. In I Spy Sound, choose different scenarios and listen to sounds that are being played. Match the sound you hear with the object it belongs to in the scenario. In Musical Water Glasses, hit different water glasses that are filled with different amounts of water, creating different pitches. The pitches go along with a song that lights up the words as you hit the correct water glasses.

Study Jams - Heat Energy – Play the video on heat energy and test yourself over various heat energy questions.

Study Jams - Sound – Play the video on sound energy and test yourself over various sound energy questions.

Study Jams - Light - Play the video on light energy and test yourself over various heat light questions.

Education Galaxy – On the top right, have your child go up one level on the drop down menu.  Then go to My Study Plan and choose science.  Practice Forms of Energy.

Discovery Education – There is a large supply of video, interactive learning, questions, and an interactive glossary for vocabulary that is always helpful for whatever we are learning in science.  All content in this resource is searchable.

Thank you so much for your dedication to helping your child learn.