Happy March!
Important Dates and Reminders
Important Dates and Reminders
Our remaining library days are: March 8, 22; April 16, 30; and May 14, 29.
March 23, 2013: Invention Convention at UAHS
March 28, 2013: End of the Third Grading Period
March 29 - April 5, 2013: Spring Break
April 8, 2013: No School: Teacher Grading Day
April 11, 2013: 3rd Grade Musical Program with Mrs. Delcamp
April 15-18, 2013: Terra Nova and InView assessments (Please try to avoid appointments on these days.)
April 16, 2013: Progress reports sent home
April 26, 2013: Kidfest
April 29, 2013: Ohio Reading Achievement Assessments (All students will take. Please try to avoid appointments on this days.)
April 30, 2013: Ohio Mathematics Achievement Assessment (All students will take. Please try to avoid appointments on this days.)
May 11, 2013: Windermere Wish Run
May 27, 2013: No School: Memorial Day
May 28, 2013: Field Days (Please contact Mr. Moore if you are able to volunteer at adammoore@uaschools.org.)
May 29, 2013: Field Days rain date
Walking Wednesdays start again on April 17. The additional Walking Wednesdays are April 24; May 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.
Walking Wednesdays start again on April 17. The additional Walking Wednesdays are April 24; May 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.
Today is the final day to sign up for the Upper Arlington Invention Convention. Use the link below to reserve your student's spot. We will conclude our workbooks at school by next Friday, March 8th. That will give your student two full weeks to complete their display board. More information regarding the demonstration boards and a planning template will be sent home next week.
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080B4BA5AB2CA02-invention
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080B4BA5AB2CA02-invention
In conjunction with the Invention Convention and our upcoming famous women study, in honor of Women's History Month, Mrs. Pathak shared the following link for Ohio State's Introducing a Girl to Engineering Day (IGED). This an all day (8.00 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.) event on Sat, April 20. This looks like a great opportunity for your young female scientists and mathematicians.
http://wie.osu.edu/content/elementary-school-programs
What We Learned This Week
Word Study
- I can write and read lowercase cursive "loop" letters: l, h, k, b and f.
- I can correct sentences for convention (capitals, punctuation) and grammar (tense, subject verb agreement).
- I can recognize common prefixes: un-, re-, in-, im-, ir-, il- and dis-.
- I know prefixes change the meaning of words, typically to mean the opposite.
Reading
- I can state the main idea of a passage.
- I can differentiate between main idea and supporting details.
- I can compare and contrast topics.
Writing
- I can plan a friendly letter with three to four paragraphs.
- My plan contains sufficient supporting details to make my paragraphs rich and interesting.
- I can use my plan to draft paragraphs.
- I can use my highlighter to keep track of which details from my plan I have used.
- I can self-edit for convention.
- I can create topic sentences to introduce my paragraph.
- I can end my paragraph with a conclusion that utilizes observations, feelings, or connections.
Math
- I can define fractions as equal parts of a whole.
- I can define the denominator as the number of parts in my whole.
- I can define the numerator as the number of parts in my whole I'm using or considering.
- I can determine the number of units of a whole from a given fraction.
- I can represent the number of units of a whole as a fraction.
- I can simplify fractions.
- I can write irregular fractions as mixed number fractions (in simplest form).
- I can write mixed number fractions as irregular fractions.
- I can place fractions on a number line.
- I can compare and order fractions from least to greatest.
- I can find equivalent fractions.
We will revisit fractions later in the spring. Fractions are both abstract and require math fact fluency. The students who understand fractions as division will be able to understand and use fractions much more easily than those who cannot. Please continue to work on multiplication fact fluency. We'll end the year with division fact fluency, which also comes much faster to students with mastery over multiplication.
http://wie.osu.edu/content/elementary-school-programs
What We Learned This Week
Word Study
- I can write and read lowercase cursive "loop" letters: l, h, k, b and f.
- I can correct sentences for convention (capitals, punctuation) and grammar (tense, subject verb agreement).
- I can recognize common prefixes: un-, re-, in-, im-, ir-, il- and dis-.
- I know prefixes change the meaning of words, typically to mean the opposite.
Reading
- I can state the main idea of a passage.
- I can differentiate between main idea and supporting details.
- I can compare and contrast topics.
Writing
- I can plan a friendly letter with three to four paragraphs.
- My plan contains sufficient supporting details to make my paragraphs rich and interesting.
- I can use my plan to draft paragraphs.
- I can use my highlighter to keep track of which details from my plan I have used.
- I can self-edit for convention.
- I can create topic sentences to introduce my paragraph.
- I can end my paragraph with a conclusion that utilizes observations, feelings, or connections.
Math
- I can define fractions as equal parts of a whole.
- I can define the denominator as the number of parts in my whole.
- I can define the numerator as the number of parts in my whole I'm using or considering.
- I can determine the number of units of a whole from a given fraction.
- I can represent the number of units of a whole as a fraction.
- I can simplify fractions.
- I can write irregular fractions as mixed number fractions (in simplest form).
- I can write mixed number fractions as irregular fractions.
- I can place fractions on a number line.
- I can compare and order fractions from least to greatest.
- I can find equivalent fractions.
We will revisit fractions later in the spring. Fractions are both abstract and require math fact fluency. The students who understand fractions as division will be able to understand and use fractions much more easily than those who cannot. Please continue to work on multiplication fact fluency. We'll end the year with division fact fluency, which also comes much faster to students with mastery over multiplication.
