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Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling: Random Spelling Lists 14-20 (students will study only A and Both)

Math: Unit 8 Fractions

• Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.2
  Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line diagram.

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  Students will practice the fiction and non-fiction comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Writing: Opinion writing-CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support,

Welcome Back!  Hope you enjoyed the well deserved break with your families.  

Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling: List #20 -igh & -eigh

Math: Unit 7

3.OA. 9  Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties of operations. For example, observe that 4 times a number is always even, and explain why 4 times a number can be decomposed into two equal addends.

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  I will be sending home comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Writing: Opinion writing-CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons

Snacks: please send a healthy snack.

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support,

Mrs. Shakarchi and Students in room 217

Important Dates

Spring Vacation: Friday March 30- Friday April 6.  Enjoy your break with your friends and families.  Happy Easter!

Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling:No Spelling

Math: Test might be this week depending on if we finish all lessons before the break. Please see updates on Class Dojo.

Unit 6 will be all about geometry.  3.G.1-Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  I will be sending home comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Book it: Due Thursday 3/29.

Writing: Opinion writing-CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons

Snacks: please send a healthy snack.

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support,

Mrs. Shakarchi and Students in room 217

   Important Dates

Tuesday: Literacy Night from 4:00-5:30

Thursday 3/22 : Field Trip

Parent Teacher Conferences

Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling:List#19 – ough and augh

Math: Unit 6 will be all about geometry.  3.G.1-Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  I will be sending home comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Book it: March Book it logs were sent home last Thursday.  Please indicate the minutes they read for each night.

Writing: Opinion writing-CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons

Snacks: please send a healthy snack.

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support,

Mrs. Shakarchi and Students in room 217

Monday: Math Unit 5 Test

Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling:List#18 -ear and -air

Math: Unit 6 will be all about geometry.  3.G.1-Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  I will be sending home comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Book it: March Book it logs were sent home last Thursday.  Please indicate the minutes they read for each night.

Writing: Opinion writing-CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons

Snacks: please send a healthy snack.

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support,

Mrs. Shakarchi and Students in room 217

Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling:List#17 er, ir, ur, & ire

Math: Math unit 5.  Students will fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers. Unit test will be on Tuesday.

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  I will be sending home comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Book it: Continue filling the heart reading logs for the month of February. We will collect the logs on 3/1.

Writing: Compare and Contrast-two text about the same topic.

Snacks: please send a healthy snack.

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support,

Mrs. Shakarchi and Students in room 217

Welcome back!  

Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling:List#16 ar and or

Math: Math unit 5.  Students will fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  I will be sending home comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Book it: Continue filling the heart reading logs for the month of February. We will collect the logs on 3/1.

Writing: Compare and Contrast-two text about the same topic.

Snacks: please send a healthy snack.

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support,

Mrs. Shakarchi and Students in room 217

Important Dates:

Thursday- WIDA Testing (Writing)

Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling:List#15 consonant +le

Math: Math unit 5.  students will fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  I will be sending home comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Book it: Continue filling the heart reading logs for the month of February.

Writing: Compare and Contrast-two text about the same topic.

Snacks: please send a healthy snack.

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support

Important Dates:

Thursday- WIDA Testing (Listening and Reading)

Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling:List#14 Irregular Past Tense

Math: Math unit 5.  students will fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  I will be sending home comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Book it: Reading Log for February will be sent home this week.

Writing: Compare and Contrast-two text about the same topic.

Snacks: please send a healthy snack.

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support

Important Dates:

Wednesday, January 31 Science NWEA

Homework Packets: Please have your child work on the packet each day.  Also, read for 20-30 minutes and fill response logs, students choose only three boxes of spelling activity.  Homework is due on Fridays.

Spelling:Random spelling – students will study lists 8-13.  Please have your child study Both and list A only.

Math: Math unit 4 test will be Friday, February 2nd.  Students will have a study guide.

Prodigy Prodigy is a website that help students practice their math skill.  Your child is encouraged to practice math skills with Prodigy.

Mobymax: practice math fluency, math, numbers

Reading: Read every night for 20-30 minutes, and ask and answer comprehension questions.  I will be sending home comprehension questions to assist with understanding text.  Reading logs and responses should be filled for each time they read.

Book it: Book it is due Friday February 2nd. 

Writing: Compare and Contrast

Snacks: please send a healthy snack.

Contact me by e-mail: shakara@dearbornschools.org or schools.

Thank you for your support,