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Grade 3 Weekly
September 5-9, 2016

This Weeks Focus

Welcome Back Picnic

This Saturday is the Welcome Back Picnic!

Language Arts

It will be from 11:30-1:30 on the big field.

Students will learn about character traits this

Come and join us for lunch and

week, both internal and external. We will also

entertainment. Please bring a dish to share

review setting, and the importance it has in a

with everyone!

story. We will be reading different texts to help

support these concepts. We will continue our
work on plural nouns, focusing on irregular
plurals.

Half Day - Wednesday

Math

This Wednesday is again an early

We will continue to practice elapsed time this

release day. Please make sure your

week. Please continue practicing time at home

child is picked up at 12:15pm.

with your child, asking what time it is, what time

it will be in 30 minutes, how much time has
elapsed since school ended, etc. These are life
skills and important to reinforce throughout the
year. We will also go over tally charts and bar

Homework

Wednesday: E . 1 Count equal groups

Thursday: I . 1 Divide by counting equal

groups.
Every Night: Read (at least) 1 book out
loud on Kids A-Z each night at their
reading level. Kids A-Z logins have been
sent home this week.

graphs, and introduce multiplication strategies and

division strategies.

Unity of Inquiry (UOI)

This week our focus is tolerance. Students will
learn and practice being tolerance to each other
at school and at home. We will be reading a
variety of texts and completing activities to
reinforce this concept.