Crew News

August 12, 2016

Curriculum Updates

Coming This Week:

This week was a great week for our third

grade crew! We continued working on
multiplication and using our facts to help us
understand division. We also introduced
variables this week and understanding how to
better read story problems. During two of our
math lessons we spent time on the computers
using FrontRow, a website that allows math
practice in areas specific to your student s
current abilities. This program can be accessed
at home on www.frontrowed.com (class code:
tolbek) and helps students progress in learning
their operations.
Our writing focus this week was learning the
steps of the writing process. Each student has
been working hard in drafting, revising, and
editing an entry in their writer s journals and
we will be publishing those this coming week!
We also worked in reading on moving from
describing a character to using what we know
about a character to make a self comparison.
Social Studies continued with a discussion on
rights and responsibilities in a community and
in our own classroom, and we also learned
more about our nation s flag.

Math: Continuing with multiplication and division.

Math facts this week: 9s, be sure to practice these
at home with the rest of the flashcards! We will be
doing timed math facts quizzes Wednesday and
Friday this week.
Literacy: New vocabulary- After communicating
with a few parents this week, I will be adding the
weekly vocabulary to the class website so you can
study together at home in addition to the practice
we get at school. Thank you for those of you who
provided the feedback on this matter!
Spelling: New spelling words coming home in the
Homework Packet.

**I will also be gone to a training this Monday and

Tuesday (8/15-8/16). Homework packets will still
come home Monday, however watch your child s
Communicator for a paper Wednesday about an
upcoming book report I will be assigning to be due
the week before we track off.

Save the Date

Behavior

Wednesday, August 24 School

Jog-a-thon (more info coming)

The end of the week went very well after

we had a reset on Wednesday morning!

Friday, September 2 1.)Book

Orders due (unless you order
online using class code Q4XV3).
2.) August & September birthday
celebration 1pm.

This Weeks Class Goal:

September 3-25 OFF track

HOMEWORK NOTE: In order to keep better records

of your student s homework, please do not send
the individual pages back to school, but rather
send the entire packet (omit spelling word cards
and flashcards) back as a whole.

We will get less than 10 call-outs a

day this week. If we do, Miss T will
play with us at Friday recess.