The

Grade 3 Weekly
January 4-8, 2016

This Weeks Focus

Welcome Back!

Language Arts

Welcome back, everyone! I hope you all

This week we will be learning about the

had a wonderful, relaxing 3-week break.

Authors Purpose, or the reason the author

I had an amazing time on a road trip

wrote the text (persuade, inform, entertain).

down the RN 7, am recharged, and happy

We will also be reviewing action verbs and

to get back to school. I am excited to get

linking verbs.

back and see everyones smiling faces.

Math

Welcome, Milano!

We are starting a new geometry unit this

week. We will discuss line segments, rays,

We have a new student joining us this

and lines, parallel and intersecting lines,

week, Milano. I know the students will

angles and triangles. We will learn how to

do everything they can to make him

identify them, classify them, and how to

feel welcome in our classroom

name them.

community.

Unity of Inquiry (UOI)

Our focus this week will be on forces and

Homework
M onday or Tuesday: IXL V.21
W ednesday or Thursday: IXL V.20
*Please make sure your child completes
these on the nights they are assigned, not
before, as they have not yet learned the
content.
Every night: Kids A-Z Reading

how difference forces relate and connect to

simple machines. We will conduct a variety of

experiments to learn about different forces.