Fact fluency – memorization and speed of knowing your math facts is a crucial part of doing well in math. If you need to count on your fingers or spend a lot of time on the basic facts it makes applying these facts to more advanced concept much more difficult. Students in 3rd grade NEED to have all of their math facts memorized up to 10s. This means all the multiplication and division facts 0 to 10. They should have memorized the addition and subtraction facts before 3rd grade and should be able to quickly give answers up to 20 without counting. If they are unable to do this they should be practicing daily until they reach these goals. Flash cards, math programs like MobyMax or just quizzing them as you ride in the car are all beneficial. You can see their fluency score on MobyMax. Your student will know how to find it.
Zearn – Your student should be up to lesson 14 in Zearn as of today. Zearn is a wonderful program that is part of the Eureka math program. It matches exactly with the lessons in our book. It has a video tutorial (Math Chat) for each lesson with step by step directions on how to do the lesson with lots of practice. The students that are keeping up to date are doing wonderful on the tests. Please make sure that your student keeps up to date on their Zearn lessons. If they did not complete them in class they should work on them at home. This will be very beneficial for understanding all the concepts they need to for the tests.
Chaperone/Volunteer paperwork – Please remember to complete your chaperone/volunteer paperwork in the office. We have a two field trips coming up in November (see calendar) and it takes a couple of weeks to complete the paperwork. You must also have the paperwork to volunteer for extra recess.
Don’t Forget – 1/2 day Friday – dismissal at 11:45
Reward Recess – I still have no helper for our reward recess tomorrow. Since it is a 1/2 day it would be from 9:15-9:45, please let me know if you can help.
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