The Metric System!

We FINALLY got to use our meter tapes today! After having some group discussion time over the Royal Measurement story we read yesterday, we got to work measuring different objects around the room!

More pictures to come as we continue in our Unit!

Snapshot 8-27-18

Week of: August 27, 2018

Week of: August 27, 2018

Good evening! 

The first week of school is over! It was a busy and fun week filled with learning new procedures, routines, math concepts, and reviewing some skills from last year. Please see our upcoming dates listed below! We have our first Spirit Night of the year at Yogurtland in Firewheel! We hope to see you there this upcoming Tuesday! J

Upcoming Dates
Monday, August 27	Try to have Summer Reading Logs turned in
Tuesday, August 28	SPIRIT NIGHT!!! Yogurtland – in Firewheel between Pei Wei and Cristina’s – see you there!
Thursday, August 30	Summer Slide Ice Cream Party *for those who have returned their Summer Reading Logs
	Robotics Team Application Due
Friday, August 31	NO SCHOOL Student Holiday
Monday, September 3	NO SCHOOL Labor Day Holiday
Monday, September 10	Robotics Tryouts *for those who receive a letter
Thursday, September 13	MEET THE TEACHER First Session 6:00pm – 7:00pm & Second Session 7:00pm – 8:00pm

Upcoming Assignment due dates
Monday, August 27	Science Homework: Color, cut and glue paper meter tape. These will be used in class Tuesday, August 28. You can see an example of this on our class blog page here
Tuesday, September 4	Science Homework: Show you favorite science topics by decorating the cover of your science notebook! We will be using notebooks in class often, remember to bring them back to school every day until you are finished decorating your cover!
Tuesday, September 4	Math Homework Non-Magnet: Homework 1-4 Place Value Relationships pages 31-32 (from enVision MATH workbook) Magnet: Motivation Math Unit 2 Independent Practice page 17-18. *be sure to show all work on problems. This may mean highlighting, underlining, circling, or writing out word problems.
PRACTICE	An enVision MATH practice page will come home this week (most likely Tuesday) that describes place value relationships and gives examples. This page (27 – 28) is for practice only and does not need to come back to school. Once our Pearson accounts are ready, students will be able to watch the Place Value Relationships video for added at home support.

Graded homework begins this week! As per grading in grouping, homework that is turned in late will have 10 points taken off for each day that it is late. Homework that is more than 3 days late may not be accepted.

 THIS WEEK IN MATH:

We will continue looking at place value this week, as well as place value relationships. Place value relationships is a topic that can be a bit of a challenge, and sound confusing. We will be using our envision MATH book and videos this week to help with place value relationships.

 Some of the areas we will be focusing on this week are:

·         Compose and decompose numbers up to 100,000 using objects, pictorial models, and expanded notation

·         Represent numbers up to 100,00 using standard form, word form, expanded form and expanded notation

·         compare and order whole numbers up to 100,000 using the symbols (>, <, or =)

·         interpret the value of each place-value position as 10 times the position to the right and as one-tenth of the value of the place to its left

We will be representing these skills in our math notebooks. Math notebooks can go home at any time for extra practice and studying! Please be sure to return math notebooks to school each day so that we may continue to take notes and work through examples in them. Ways to represent numbers in different forms can also be found on our class blog page here.

MATH RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE

ABCya - Base Ten BINGO – This game has your child match a set of base ten blocks with a correct 4 digit number. You can select as many place value to practice at a time as you want up to the thousands place.

Splash Math - Expanded and Word Forms – Practice converting numbers from expanded and word form to standard form.

Sheppard Software - Math Man – I may have played this game for longer than I should have! It’s Pac-Man, but with place value! A digit and its place value is given and you have to find and “eat” the ghost with the correct number. It’s so much fun!

Sheppard Software - Place Value Shapes Shoot – This game is PERFECT for practicing the various ways a number may be represented in short word form (with numbers and words). A number is given and your job is to choose the correct representation. The tricky part is when place value amounts exceed 9!

Sheppard Software - Fruit Splat – Practice converting numbers from expanded form to standard form. There are 3 levels ranging from 2 digit to 2 digit numbers. There are also 3 challenge levels that require regrouping between place values! Play in untimed or timed mode!

These links can be accessed on our Place Value and Money Symbaloo here. As we continue through the unit, more links will be added.

 

THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE:

We will continue looking at how scientist work and fair testing! We spent Friday setting up for our first investigation of the year and will be conducting it in class on Monday! We will be practicing how to run a fair test by testing different types of paper and their ability to be shot into a trash can. We will also move on to looking at measuring length using our paper meter tapes that were sent home as homework this past week.

Some of the areas we will be focusing on this week are:

●        How to use simple tools and current technology to measure data

●        How to design a fair test

●        Components of a fair test

●        How to make measurements with appropriate units

●        Standard measurement units in the metric system

SCIENCE RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE

Khan Academy - Mass – View video that discusses mass, then practice with questions that compare grams and kilograms! You can also practice different word problems with mass. *When accessing from Symbaloo, click the navy Learner’s, start here button, Math By Grade – 3^rd, measurement and data, and then choose mass.

·         Student will be setting up their own accounts for Khan Academy within the upcoming weeks using their school email addresses. This is the same email address they will use to log into our chrome books. If you would like to begin practicing at home, you can have your child create their own account with their school email by clicking this link. The code to join our class is VFQR45RK. Their password will be the same password they use to log on to the computer at school. If you would like this information, please let me know and I will send it home!

Discovery Education - Meter Video – Students will log into their Discovery Education accounts using Ready Hub. This video goes through what a meter is, what we may measure with a meter, and what segments a meter is broken down into.

These links can be accessed on our Scientists Measure Symbaloo here. As we continue through the unit, more links will be added.

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

Place Value

Here are the different forms we have been looking at this past week!

Happy Camper Summer Reading Logs

Thank you so much for those that have already sent in your Happy Camper Summer Reading Logs!  Please remember that in order for your student to enjoy the ice cream treat on August 30, they must return the Happy Camper Reading Log.  Some students were asking for extra copies today. I will make some extra copies tonight but you can also find a digital copy here as well.  Please turn these in as soon as possible to your homeroom teacher so that we can get you on the ice cream list.

     

What a great first day of school! We talked about the good characteristics of a mathematician, the good characteristics of a scientist, looked at our class blog, Class Dojo, talked about our first home work assignment for the week, and had some really great classroom discussions!

Creating a graphic organizer in math notebooks to tell about the characteristics of a good mathematician.

Tomorrow we will being our first units in math and science. We will be looking at place value in math, and fair testing in science.

Question of the Week!

The new school year starts in just a few hours! As we com back to school, I want to know all about your favorite things and what school topics excite you! Once Class Dojo logins are sent home this week, you can log in and answer our first written activity in your portfolio! You can add a video, drawing or photo if you want to, but be sure to complete the activity in writing!

Here is what my first posted activity looks like:

Have a great last day of summer vacation, and see everyone in the morning! :)

Snapshot for the week of 8-20-18

Week of: August 20, 2018

Welcome to 3^rd Grade!

Each week, a snapshot of our week in Math and Science will be sent home. This snapshot of the week will include upcoming dates, upcoming due dates for classwork and homework, and what we will be learning in math and science for the upcoming week. There will also be links to different websites with games and information to help with practicing skills at home! These links will all be compiled onto Symbaloo by unit so you will be able to access them easier at home without having to sift through numerous snapshots.

Upcoming Dates
Monday, August 20	FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!
Friday, August 24	PRIDE card punches for signing up for Class Dojo, Remind, Kiddom and turning in photo permission forms *1 punch for each turned in – see Welcome to Ms. Molix’s Class flip book
Monday, September 3	NO SCHOOL Labor Day Holiday

Upcoming Assignment due dates
Friday, August 24	Science Classwork: Scientific Method Quiz
Monday, August 27	Science Homework: Color, cut and glue paper meter tape. These will be used in class Tuesday, August 28. You can see an example of this on our class blog page here
Tuesday, September 4	Science Homework: Show you favorite science topics by decorating the cover of your science notebook! We will be using notebooks in class often, remember to bring them back to school every day until you are finished decorating your cover!

Home practice/ Homework will begin next week. As per grading in grouping, homework that is turned in late will have 10 points taken off for each day that it is late. Homework that is more than 3 days late may not be accepted.

 THIS WEEK IN MATH:

We will begin our year discussing place value! In 3^rd grade, we are looking at different place values from the ones place all the way to the hundred thousands place. The magnet section will also be looking at the millions place.

 Some of the areas we will be focusing on this week are:

·         Place value of whole numbers up to the 100,000s place

·         Describe the place value relationship found in the base-10 place value system

·         Compose and decompose numbers up to 100,000 using objects, pictorial models, and expanded notation

·         Represent numbers up to 100,00 using standard form, word form, expanded form and expanded notation

We will be representing these skills in our math notebooks. Math notebooks can go home at any time for extra practice and studying! Please be sure to return math notebooks to school each day so that we may continue to take notes and work through examples in them. Ways to represent numbers in different forms can also be found on our class blog page here.

MATH RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE

ABCya - Place Value Hockey – Choose a level (1, 2 or 3), decide if you are going to find the place value or make a number based on the word form, and get started! Get 5 in a row correct and take a penalty shot

Math-Play - Place Value Games – Choose from 6 different place value games on Math-Play’s Place Value page. There are football, pirate and racing themed games.

Soft Schools - Teaching Place Value – Choose a level, choose the number of problems you want to answer, and START! Look at the red, underlined digit in each number and type in the value of that digit. How many can you get right?

Mr. Nussbaum - Place Value Pirates – Use your place value skills to dispatch of the wretched pirate Sir Francis Place Value and his horrible band of place value pirates! Read the prompt on the top of each page and click the pirate with the number that matched the prompt.

ABCya - Base Ten Fun – Practice base ten by building number using digits and base ten blocks.

These links can be accessed on our Place Value and Money Symbaloo here. As we continue through the unit, more links will be added.

 

THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE:

We will begin our year in Science by looking at how scientist work! This includes reviewing the scientific method, how to measure different items accurately, and what it means to conduct a fair test.

Some of the areas we will be focusing on this week are:

●       How to use simple tools and current technology to measure data

●       How to organize data in a scientific notebook

●       How to design a fair test

●       Components of a fair test

A big part of Science throughout the year will be recording information in our science notebooks. While parts of each science notebook such as graphic organizers, illustrations, and the way each student shows understanding of topics may vary, the setup of each science notebook will be the same. You can see how our science notebooks will be set up for the year on our blog page here.

SCIENCE RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE

BrainPOP Jr - Scientific Method – View this video about the Scientific Method. Once you finish, you can take the quizzes or play the game! In the Scientific Method game, put the cards that describe each step of the scientific method in order. You can also have fun by doing the string activity at home! You can also watch the BrainPOP Scientific Method for older kids here

BrainPOP - Cool Science Careers – See what it’s like to be a scientists in this game from BrainPOP! Choose between 4 different careers and test your scientific, deductive, and analytical skills. This game is for grades 3-5 and 5-8. Some of the questions may be geared more toward the 5-8 side, but from what I have played, it’s fun!

BrainPOP - The Meaning of The Beep: Scientific Method – Tim broke Moby’s language chip, and now Moby’s robot is missing some words! Can you use contect clues to fill in the blanks? Practice the scientific method as well as your vocabulary skills while finding synonyms for each of the scientific method steps.

These links can be accessed on our Scientists Measure Symbaloo here. As we continue through the unit, more links will be added.

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