Welcome to a new school year!
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Greetings everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend. Here are the things we are working on this week:
Reading: We have ended our study of poetry and our biography power point projects. The students did a great job taking notes on their person as they read. They really did a nice job creating their presentations and learned alot from each other too! At this time, we are working on a new research paper so students have chosen an animal they were not very familiar with and are reading a variety of texts. Writing: Students are taking notes about their animal that we will turn into a research paper. In addition, we are working on "how to" writing in which students describe steps in a process. Math: We are continuing our study of time this week. We are working to figure out elapsed time in many different situations. Elapsed time will be on the EOG. It is important to practice this skill at home as well. This is an easy one to practice on a daily basis. When you are making dinner or driving somewhere, talk to your student about how much time has passed and how much time until the activity is done. They might need to draw out a clock to help them. Here are some links that go along with the strategies we are using: Clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXFZUMjehDU T-chart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eucvb7qFpk Numberline, Clock, and Subtacting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKzmSMePwTQ Science: We are continuing our study of plants. This week we thinned and transplanted our seedlings and did an experiment with kool-aid to show how pollen is transferred from flower to flower. Hi everyone and welcome back from trackout! I hope you enjoyed yours and the students have shared with me about some of the camps they were involved in. Congratulations to Katie and Nikhil for reading the most over their time out! We'll have another contest during our next one.
Book Drive- The school is having a book drive. Our school goal is to collect 5,000 new and gently used books to support literacy for pre-school and elementary-age students in Wake County. The drive will run from Monday, 02/27 until Thursday, 03/30, and we will use it as an opportunity to celebrate reading each week. Here are more specific details: Donated Book Criteria from WAKE Up and Read: Books must be new or gently used and appropriate for children birth – 12. *For gently used donations, book covers, pages, and spines should be intact and without rips, tears, or added pencil/crayon markings (names of original owners/dedications are acceptable). Used books should not be damaged by mold, water, or fire, and should not show signs of discoloration or age. *Titles like Curious George, The Magic Treehouse, Charlotte’s Web, and bilingual books are appreciated. *We cannot accept coloring books, activity books or magazines. Reading: We are finishing up text structure and working our way deeper into our biography study. We will be learning about all different types of famous people! Ask your student who they have learned about today and their significance in history. Writing: Students will on top of reading about different people in reading, will also be researching a person of their choosing. We will be researching these people for a while. Social Studies: We are still focusing on the three regions of North Carolina this week. (Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Mountains). Students will be acting like a travel agent later this week and creating a travel brochure of North Carolina and all the great things available in our state. Math: We will be studying fractions into fourth quarter. At this point, students are expected to have the base knowledge of identifying fractions, what the numerator and denominator are, and where fractions might be located on a number line. We also began these concepts before our trackout. Happy track out week everyone! It's that time again and your students will be bringing home their track out bags on Friday. We have an early release day on Friday also.
Here is what's happening this week: Reading – We will be finishing out unit on Text Structures in Nonfiction reading. These include Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Description, Sequencing, and Problem/Solution. We have focused on short passages and identifying them. Writing – We have finished our suspenseful writing graphic organizers and are drafting our first copies. Some of us are in the peer editing stage now too. Ask your child about their character and what he or she discovers by the end of the story! Math- We are still at the beginning stage of our fractions unit. We will take a short quiz this week though. We are learning the basics before trackout: identifying fractions by looking at a fraction drawing, drawing fractions, and placing fractions on a number line. Social Studies – We are starting our Maps and Globe unit this week. We will start out by going over the five themes of Geography.(Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement and Region) Good afternoon everyone! I hope you are off to a great week. Here are the skills we are working on this week: Reading: We have started working on our Mystery unit and reading novels that fall into this genre. As always, we are working on our comprehension skills through them but also using our new vocabulary words such as suspect, sleuth, detective, suspect, evidence, and red herring. There are some great mystery series books for students out there! Don't forget about the classics like Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. We are also working on an important skill that ties in nicely which is to infer. When you infer, you use your background knowledge (schema) plus information from the text. In class, I sometimes refer to this as "author and me" . Writing: So we have started working on this writing idea of "show don't tell" and writing a suspenseful story. We are using a grphic organizer along with this piece too and lots of great examples. Math: We are still working on Area and Perimeter!! This is a difficult and exciting unit. Students are now expected to have their multiplication facts memorized and will need to recall them quicker. Be aware that students only need to find the area for squares, rectangles, and shapes that combine squares and rectangles in third grade. They will not be asked to find the area of triangles or circles. At this point, we are showing our understanding through word problems. Science: Now that we've studied shadows we are moving to onto studying the moon and it's phases. Students should still consistently record the moon observations in their planner. To connect the moon at home, there are lot of great rotational models online as well as activities using oreos and other fun things. Happy November 1st everyone! Things are moving so fast. We will be tracking out next week, which is hard to believe.
A few reimnders:
Reading: We are finishing up our small group novels this week. We will then move onto to Non –fiction text and text features until the end of Quarter 2. With Non-Fiction it is important that students use all of the text features to gather information like pictures and captions. Readworks.org is a great resource to use at home to read non-fiction stories with questions. Writing: We are working on writing reviews and recommendations this week. This incorporates what we have learned about forming opionions. Then we will move onto persuasive writng. Social Studies: This week we will finish our unit focused on North Carolina beginnings. I will give the students a study guide Wednesday and our test will be Friday. Math: We are wrapping up algebraic equations this week. We will then move onto a short unit about reading and interpreting data and graphs. VOCABULARY WORKSHOP: We are starting our vocabulary workshop study. Students will be given their set of vocabulary words and it will be used for 2 weeks. I will be sending home information for you this week. Hi everyone! It seems that fall weather has finally arrived. Yay!
We had a wonderful time on our first field trip of this school year. The students learned quite a lot at the Mordecai House as well as on our trolley tour around downtown Raleigh. I was so proud of their behavior and how they represented our school in the community. The students have been creating their own brochures since then using information they learned while we were there. Keep practicing those multiplication tables everyone! The students are quizzing each other too because they know an ice cream party is on the line. Red Ribbon Week: Tuesday Oct. 25th-Team up Against Drugs! (Wear a team shirt). Wednesday Oct. 26th- Red Ribbon Week Ends – We scare drugs away! (wear a costume with NO masks, and NO toy or weapon accoutrements) Writing: We are continuing our persuasive writing. We have been identifying the important parts of that style so we can create our own persuasive papers. Ask your child about the 4 parts found in persuasive writing! Social Studies:. This week we will talk about North Carolina’s history with the state capital and transportation. Later this week we will learn about the first colony and the lost colony of Roanoke. We will end the week by taking a closer look at who Sir Walter Raleigh and Virginia Dare were. Reading : We are continuing or unit on comparing and contrasting stories and theme this week. To work on this at home, have your child tell you the theme of the book or story that they are currently reading. Remind them that the theme is a general life lesson or message and it is not a specific lesson for the story. For example your child reads a story about a child secretly eating the whole batch of cookies and getting terribly sick. The theme would be to be honest or consequences can still happen even if you think no one is watching. The theme wouldn’t be specific by saying don’t steal cookies. We are also working on expanding simple sentences into compound sentences. We can use connectors( For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So) to expand our sentences. Ex: The cat meowed.(Simple) The cat meowed, but he had a full bowl of food and a dish of water.(Compound) Math: We are moving to balancing equations. This means that both sides of the equal sign should balance out. Ex. 4x2 = 8x1. Both sides of the equation equal 8. The way to prove that it is balanced is by solving both sides and if it is the same number on both sides, it is equal. To work on this at home, give your child two equations (equal or unequal) and separate them with an equal sign. Have your child tell you whether it is true or false. They may also be asked to compare two equations. I always tell students to write the answer for each equation on top of the equation before comparing or determining if they are equal. We also create equations that have a missing number and students have to decide what number whould go there to make the equation true. Ex. 5 + 7 = ___ + 8 Example: 4x5=10x2 (True) 7x3>8x1(True) Hello everyone! It's hard to believe that we are in the last week of September. My how time flies! REMINDERS September 27, BOX TOPS due. PTA will let us know the class who collected the most. September 29, Picture Day. You were sent an order form at the beginning of the month. Please send the order form in if you plan to order. This photo will also be the one for our yearbook. September 30, Early Release Day and report cards go home. If you did not receive the email about signing up for a parent conference, please let me know so I can send you the link. Thank you to those who have already signed up. I look forward to talking to you. Reading: This week we are working on Point of View of characters in literature and Context Clues that help us as we are reading. Writing: We are finalizing our imaginitive stories through our last stage of the writing process and publishing them. Language Arts/Grammar: using stong verbs and verb tenses Math: We are continuing with Multiplication along with its strategies and properties. This class loves to multiply. Welcome back everyone!
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Ms. WorleyThis is my 3rd year at Alston Ridge. I have taught 3rd grade and Kindergarten for many years. Categories |