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Dear Parents,
I hope everyone has had
and wonderful 2 week break and was able to stay warm!
Upcoming Dates
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Wednesday, January 3
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First Day Back!
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Friday, January 5
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PRIDE Parties
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Tuesday, January 9
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Timed Test (all facts so far)
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Tuesday, January 9
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College Shirt Day
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Monday, January 15
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NO SCHOOL - MLK
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Week of January 16
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Midyear MAP Testing
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Tuesday, January 16
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7s Timed Test
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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.
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
3rd 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.
