This Week in Third Grade 3/3

I hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy their Snow Day today! Here is a look at what is going on this week in third grade!

Reading: This week in reading we will continue to focus on determining importance of events, and start moving into main idea by the end of the week. As always, I will continue to stress the importance of being prepared for book club!

Writing: Our writers will continue their unit on persuasive writing! Students have picked a topic that they feel passionate about, and we are going to carry it through the writing process! We will specifically be focusing on adding details to support our claim and organizing our writing in a logical sence of order to be the most effective.

Math: Students showed that they had a strong understanding of area and perimeter. As we move forward this week we will switch gears and start talking about data. We will be collecting data by surveying people and learn which type of graphs should be used to represent the data we received. We will be taking a combined test after Spring Break over this information.

Science: We will finish up learning about stars this week, and move on into planets!

Social Studies:  As we move forward in our economics unit, students will continue to learn about advertising. On Tuesday we will begin making advertisements that are appropriate for our own businesses. Students will design an for their good or service that will hang in the hallway, and a smaller one that will hang on their desk. Students are more than welcome to create a video advertisement as well if they would like to. All ads will be due on Monday March 10.  Economics Day is on March 14. 

Other: 
Pennies For Pasta Update:

Tuesday March 4 – Inside out/backwards day. Wear your clothes backwards or inside out and bring in dimes.

Thursday March 6 – Hat day. Wear your favorite hat and bring in quarters.

Friday March 7 – BYOG. Bring your own gum and collect dollars (this is a half day).

Parent Teacher Conferences are on Thursday afternoon/ evening! 

Friday is a half day early dismissal at 11:50 AM! Please make sure that your child knows how they will be getting home that day before they come to school. 

Saturday is Trivia Night!