Happy April & Happy Start of 4th Quarter!!
Testing: 3rd graders will be IAR testing starting this week. April 2, 3, & 4 will be the Mathematics Assessments and April 7, 8, & 10 will be the English Language Arts Assessments. Please ensure that your child comes to school with their Chromebook fully charged. Thank you for your help!
Math: As IAR testing wraps up, we will be starting our sixth module on collecting and displaying data. Students will be generating and organizing data to create & analyze bar graphs, picture graphs, and line plots. Practicing multiplication facts will also help for this module. Thank you for your support!
Reading: Students are starting the month with a text set focusing on stories that showcase the importance of determination. Afterward, we will move on to the reading skill of determining the author’s viewpoint. The books in this text set are nonfiction and are about various environmental topics including oil spills, gasoline, renewable energy, and endangered animals. Students will be listening to and analyzing the texts to determine the author’s feelings about the topics, and work to form their own opinions, as well.
Language Arts: Students will start off the month by drafting and finalizing their opinion writing piece on their chosen subject. I can’t wait to see what the final products look like!
Science: We are continuing our unit on Inheritance and Traits with the unit question: How do organisms get their traits? To answer the big question, students will be answering smaller, chapter questions. We are starting Chapter 2 after break where we will be completing activities to answer: Why is Wolf 44’s color similar to one pack but different from the other? Then, in Chapter 3, we will determine Why isn’t Wolf 44 like the Bison Valley Pack in hunting style and size? Next, in chapter 4, we will discuss How can scientists investigate questions about traits? After all of this, students should know how organisms get their traits.
Cursive is starting! We will continue to learn letters throughout the month, with hopefully writing our stories & sentences using cursive in May.
