Friday, September 25, 2020
Dear Families,
I want to begin by thanking you for your continued support and your efforts with completing another week of remote learning. It has been difficult because everything seems very new and we are faced with unique challenges but with patience and determination, we are able to overcome anything we put our mind to. I wanted to just give you an overview of our learning for this week.
Reading- We are still establishing routines on how to be good readers, writers, speakers and listeners. We have learned about how authors write for their audience by informing, entertaining and persuading them. We read many read alouds and distinguished the author’s purpose by discussing, listening and writing. We are learning how to read independently and complete our Weekly Reading log. We also reviewed long vowel sounds by working with partners and independently.
Math– This week we learned about equal groups, skip-counting and array models relate to multiplication. Next week, we will delve deeper into multiplication by interpreting the meaning of factors.
Writing- This week, we had many opportunities to write short responses to our reading. We also learned how to write a persuasive letter by showing our opinions of being for or against school uniforms.
In our Independent Learning, we learned how to access Xtra Math, Great Minds, and complete digital math lessons on Zearn. We also learned about turtle shells in Mystery Science!
We have completed our NWEA-Reading this past week and we will be sharing your child’s progress and set up reading goals through Class Dojo. Next week, we will complete NWEA-Math in the afternoon.We will communicate this information regarding date and times through Class Dojo.
Please make sure you have your child complete all Schoology assignments that still need to be finished by Sunday. Please also continue discussing and reviewing our Zoom expectations with your child before every Zoom meeting. Thanks again for another awesome week of our 3rd grade Remote Learning,
Educationally yours,
The Third Grade Teachers
