3rd Grade 2017 - 2018
Alston Ridge Elementary Home of the Alligators!
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)
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Ms. WorleyThis is my 3rd year at Alston Ridge. I have taught 3rd grade and Kindergarten for many years. Categories |