Good evening!
3rd grade is currently in the lead
for PTA membership!!! The deadline to turn in PTA membership forms is this Monday, September 24. The winning grade
level gets to have a pajama day! Wednesdays at the rec have started! If you
child is walking to the rec center after school, please send a note that lets
us know. We want to make sure we know where everyone is going after school so
we can help keep them safe. J
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Upcoming Dates
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Monday, September
24
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PTA Membership
Deadline
*The winning grade level gets a pajama day!
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Thursday, September
27
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Molix off campus –
students will have a substitute this day
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Friday, September
28
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Spirit Stick Sales
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Family Sports Night
*following PTA meeting
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End of Cycle 1
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Tuesday, October 2
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Fall Pictures
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Friday, October 5
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Donuts with Dudes
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Gilmour Gallup
*registration sheets sent home in Tuesday
folders, agendas, and through Sykward email
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PRIDE PARTIES
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Upcoming Assignment due
dates
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Monday,
September 24
*passed out in class
9-17
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Math Homework:
Pages 113, 95, and 115
stapled,
and front and back
Science Homework:
Unit 1 Review
stapled,
and front and back
Students
may also bring home any science fair work they are struggling to finish in
class or may get behind on at the end of the week and bring back to class
9-24-18
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Tuesday,
September 25
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Science Classwork:
Science Fair Project
*a list of required
tasks can be found in the packet that was sent home 9-11-18
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Friday,
September 28
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Math Classwork: Crayon
Model Drawings
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Monday,
October 1
*passed out in class
9-24
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Math Homework:
Solve One- and Two-Step Problems Using Addition and Subtraction
stapled,
and front and back
Science Homework:
We will be focusing on completing any missing, incomplete or making
corrections for science investigations as our science homework this week. If
your child does not need to complete or correct any science investigations,
they do not have science homework this week! J
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THIS WEEK IN MATH:
This
week, we will continue our unit on addition and subtraction with a focus on
regroup. We will be looking at subtracting across zeros. We will also be
looking more at how model drawing (strip diagrams and number lines) helps us to
solve problems.
Some of the areas we will be focusing
on this week are:
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Estimating sums and differences
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Representing addition and subtraction using base
ten blocks, strip diagrams, and number lines
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Using different strategies to add and subtract
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.
MATH RESOURCES
FOR PRACTICE
Math Playground - Thinking Blocks – We will use this in class during whole group
instruction to look at different types of strip diagrams and how to set them
up. During at home practice, students can go through specific operations, or
set it to random and fill in each part of the strip diagram as practice!
Math Playground - Adding with Regrouping – View the video from Math Playground that discusses
regrouping when adding. The video works through 2 digit addition and uses bas
ten blocks to show how numbers are regrouped.
Math Playground - Subtracting with Regrouping – View the video from Math Playground that discusses
regrouping when subtracting. The video works through 2 digit subtraction and
uses bas ten blocks to show how numbers are regrouped.
Math Playground - Regrouping 3 Digit Numbers – View the video from Math Playground that discusses
regrouping with 3 digit numbers when adding and subtracting. The video uses bas
ten blocks to show how numbers are regrouped.
Softschools - 3 Digit Addition with Regrouping – Play this game from Safe Schools that walks you
through addition with regrouping step by step. Enter the numbers for each place
value one at a time to ensure you are adding correctly.
Math 4 Children - Subtraction Billionaire – Answer subtraction question in this game that is similar
to Who Wants to be a Millionaire! Choose to play by yourself or as a team. You
can even “phone a friend”, get a 50/50 answer choice, or poll the “audience”.
If we have time, we are SO playing this game in class!
These links can be
accessed on our Addition
and Subtraction Symbaloo here.
Resources will be added as we continue through our Addition and Subtraction
unit.
*Here are links to Symbaloos for past units:
THIS
WEEK IN SCIENCE:
This week, we will
finish working on Science Fair. Tuesday is our last in class day to work on the
required portions of our Science Fair projects that are due in class. We will
focus on writing our hypotheses and our project experiments in class Monday and
Tuesday of this week. If students feel they need to bring home any portion of
this project on Monday night in order to have enough class time to work
Tuesday, they are more than welcome!
During our Science
Fair lesson, we will be reviewing the following:
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Fair testing is necessary in science and
engineering
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Components of a fair test
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Designing a fair test
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Identifying testable variables
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Collecting, recording, and analyzing information
gathered and organized
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How to make measurements with appropriate units
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The importance of accurate measurements
Once we have completed our Science Fair projects, we will begin our new
unit over properties of matter! This week’s focus will be on the sink or float
ability of different objects. We will also be discussing the terms “density” as
it related to an objects ability to sink or float, and “buoyancy” as it relates
to an objects ability to float.
Some of the areas we
will be focusing on this week are:
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Collecting, recording, and analyzing information
gathered and organized
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The importance of accurate measurements
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Whether or not the size and material of an object
determines if it will sink or float
SCIENCE RESOURCES FOR
PRACTICE
this video from BrainPOP Jr. After the video, play the game that
allows you to drag different objects into the ocean to see if they will sink or
float.
Sesame Street - Sink or Float – Try to collect as many items as possible in the
treasure chest by clicking the items that will sink, rather than the items that
will float.
Discovery Education - Dive Right In – In this lab from Discovery Education, you will act as
a marine engineer! Test different shapes and materials that may make a
submarine sink or float in fresh and salt water. As you investigate, your
results are recorded in order to compare your data! To log into Discovery
Education, go through your Ready Hub account or click here and log in with your student ID and password.
*Here are links to Symbaloos for past units:
Thank you so much for
your dedication to helping your child learn.
