November 12, 2010
Headlines
Language Arts
Spelling – Dig It Verbs, Dictionary Races
Grammar – Verbs
Writing – 3 Favorite parts of my vacation
Reading – Guided Reading Groups
Read alouds: Magic Schoolbus Blows Its Top by Joanna Cole and Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day by Robin Pulver
Maths
Multiplication – 3’s and 4’s
Fact Families – multiplication and division
Multiplication and Division Gropus
Introduction of 2 digit times 1 digit numbers
Mathletics Update- We are offically registered with Mathletics for the rest of the year. I am still working out how best to use it, but we have been using it in class and going extra times to the computer room as well. If you would like your child to continue practicing what we were working on this week, he or she should work on Algebra Groups, Algebra Arrays and Algebra Problems. Under Algebra Problems, we worked on FactFamilies: Multiplication and Division this week. Children should try again until they get a gold bar (85% or more). They also really enjoy the Times Table Toons.
UNITS of INQUIRY:
DIG IT – How the World Works
Plate Tectonics
Pangea
Announcements and Notices
Thursday and Friday, November 25 and 26 – Thanksgiving Holiday
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 – Grades 2 & 3 Winter Recital
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - Holiday no school
Feel free to email me anytime at courtney.beeton@ambrit-rome.com
Over the last few weeks, during our unit "Dig It", 3B students have been participating in all kinds of experiments. They have made Earth sandwiches, showing the layers of rocks and then manipulating them to show the different ways the plates move together and how they can cause earthquakes. They also made rather explosive volcanoes and discovered the properties of a number of rocks and minerals. They examined them according to a series of criteria such as porosity, presence of pattern and grains, etc.
