The

Grade 3 Weekly
September 28-October 2, 2015

This Weeks Focus

MAP Testing

Language Arts

Last weeks MAP test went great. The

We will continue to discuss story elements

students took their learning very

and write stories based on settings that

seriously and did a wonderful job focusing

were created last week. We will review and

the whole time. Their next test is math

go through the writing process with this

and it is on Wednesday morning.

project. We will also introduce Read to

Someone to add to our Daily 5 schedule.

Short Day - Thursday

Math

This week our focus is strategies to help

Please make sure your child is picked

solve addition and subtraction questions. We

up at 12:15 on Thursday, as there are

will review ballpark estimates, and learn

conferences from 1-5pm that day.

partial sums algorithms for addition, and

trade-first and counting up strategies for
subtraction.

IXL Homework
This week we will start using IXL from home.
Students can either download the IXL app on a
smart device, or visit the IXL website. Students
can stop working when they have a Smart Score
of 80, or when they have reached 30 minutes.
This week students will complete P.6. It can be
done at any point in the week, but must be
completed by Friday morning.

Unity of Inquiry (UOI)

Groups are presenting their presentations to the

class based on what they learned on our trip to
the Kings Summer Palace. We will also be
creating a classroom book about Madagascar
that will help us practice our ideas trait as well
as our paragraph structure. Once our book is
completed, we are going to present and read our
book to another class.