Good afternoon Haigh families. This week is SPIRIT WEEK 🙂 Students are encouraged to show their school spirit and participate in this fun event. Donations of $0.50 a day is to help support the Haigh library.
- Monday–Pajama day
- Tuesday–Twin day
- Wednesday–Wacky Wednesday (Crazy hair, mismatch)
- Thursday–Dress like a book character
- Friday–Wear green for St. Patrick’s day
Reminders for the week:
- Monday– Read-A-Thon for those who returned permission slips and money will be directly after school. Students may bring a small blanket/beach towel and a pillow/stuffed animal to stay cozy while reading and dancing at this event.
- Tuesday– BINGO for books St. Patrick’s style, 6:00 PM
- Wednesday– LATE START
- Thursday–Readers are Leaders Assembly
- Friday–Popcorn Day
**** please have students bring their March is reading month “reading log” to school tomorrow so I can check in with their progress. We have discussed our goal of reading every day after school A LOT and I want to encourage and help ALL students stay on track with this VERY IMPORTANT daily habit.
This week we will continue to pick up form last week with our M-Step prep packet. We will also be discussing strategies to help figure out hard vocabulary words they encounter when reading a text by reviewing context clues strategies. This is an area of weakness for our third graders. So often kids just skip the word entirely and keep on reading instead of stopping to think about the text and text clues to help determine the meaning. Last week we took a look at the writing portion of the M-Step and analyzed the writing of sample papers from the state. Students worked together to grade the papers from a checklist/rubric to determine what grade they would give each essay. Students were surprised with some of the samples and I assured them that they are MUCH stronger writers then the examples from the state 🙂 This week we will work on our own essays of the same prompt and use the checklist to help ensure we have cited evidence from the text and have written a clear and convincing essay.
Academic Words:
- Unit fraction- a fraction where the top number is one and tells how many pieces the whole is cut into.
- Vote-a choice made by a person’s opinion of someone else’s beliefs.
- Essay- a writing that is several paragraphs and is focused around a topic.
- Constitution- a set of rules that tells how the city, state, or country works.
- Dialogue- when characters talk in a story “____”.
In math last week we took a look at fractions greater than 1 and we have begun comparing these fractions with fraction strips. We will continue to work on that skill this week and talk about how we can use our knowledge of a half and a whole to compare fractions without relying on the fraction strips and instead rely on our mathematical reasoning.
In social studies we will be discussing the three branches of government. In science we will be discussing how selection can happen without people by investigating the adaptations that geckos have made over time.
Looking forward to a fun filled week at Haigh 🙂
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