What We Learned This Week
Word Study
Students learned about conjunctions, primarily and, but, either-or, and neither-nor. We are working on intentional sentence variation.
Reading Workshop
Students are reviewing many of our reading skills: main idea, comparing and contrasting, fact and opinion, inference, predictions, and answering questions from our text using complete sentences and spelling from the text. Despite our practice, many students still skim and miss relatively easy questions.
Writing Workshop
I'm having the students respond to the same text with an opinion essay, personal narrative, and
informational essays. Our greatest opportunity for improvement is in opinion essays where we are doing a nice job of referencing the text but we do not express how the text supports our position.
Math Workshop
I introduced geometry this week. Students learned about lines, line segments, angles, right angles, vertices, parallel lines, intersecting lines, perpendicular lines, polygons, and specific quadrilaterals.
Important Dates & Reminders
I will highlight new and changed dates on subsequent posts in red.
Please make sure your student has a working pair of headphones or earbuds for April testing! There will be auditory components on the state math test.
April 5 - Progress Reports sent home
April 6 - Early Dismissal Professional Development 1pm
April 12 & 13 - Ohio English Language Arts Assessment
April 20 & 21 - Ohio Mathematics Assessment
April 25 through 29 - Scholastic Book Fair
April 29 - Kids Fest 5 till 8pm
Kid Fest 2016 will soon be here! One of the highlights of this fun, family event is the GIANT raffle baskets! This exciting tradition is always eagerly anticipated and a great fund-raiser! Please click on the link to view the third grade basket items.
www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa9af2da31-star/31903624
We won the Box Tops collection. The class decided they would like to celebrate with a technology day. I'm meeting with one of our district technology leaders to help plan this event for May. Thank you for supporting our school!
May 27 - Last Day of School for Students
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