Week at a Glance: September 11-15, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Completing Third Grade Angels novel

Math:  Chapter 1 Math test Tuesday; Begin Chapter 2 Wednesday

Spelling: Last week of spelling words from our novel

Religion- Rosary Launch Friday and all school Mass Tuesday

Social Studies: Continuing Geography chapter

Also….

• Iready reading test on Wednesday morning (please make sure your child has headphones/ earbuds for both days)

• Iready math test on Thursday morning

Reading: Students will continue reading the novel Third Grade Angels. Students will be working daily on completing:

• 30-page Close Reading activity packet to increase my students' listening skills and comprehension skills during the read aloud.
• Comprehension questions (short response, not multiple choice) per chapter. There are 17 chapters in this book.

We are currently on Chapter 10- this novel continues to be enjoyable for the 3rd graders and has had some interesting surprises about the characters. We’ve had some rich discussions with character comparisons.

• A book report template
• Essay (ELA format)

This can also be used for ELA test prep materials (short and extended response).

Students will take turns reading out loud and through the readings, we’ll discuss story elements, character traits, main idea, details, and context clues in a whole group setting.  Novel reading will be good preparation for Lit Circles, where students begin reading different types/ genres of chapter books.

ELA continuing:

• Daily work in daily oral language assignments
• Daily work in Simple Solutions Grammar book
• Work in September journal and prompts book

Lit Circles: Beginning this week-

• Group 1 reads: Magic Tree House Tonight on the Titanic
• Group 2 reads: The Boxcar Children- Volume 1
• Group 3 reads: Because of Winn-Dixie

Each group will have a comprehension packet to complete by the end of the book.

Mrs. D’Amore and Mrs. Broken will help guide the group when possible.

Spelling words will come from the chapters we read during the week. I will post the spelling words Monday- there are only 7 spelling words this week.

Students will practice spelling daily with September spelling menu activities

Writing: 

• Students will write daily entries in their September journal and notebook prompts
• Students will write an essay when Third Grade Angels is completed.
• Daily entities in Gratitude journals.

Math:

Monday- Chapter 1 test review

Tuesday- Chapter 2 test on place value

Wednesday--Here is a video to introduce Lesson 1 

Chapter 2- Addition;

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively 
•  Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Attend to precision
• Look for and make use of structure
• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Math Vocabulary: parentheses, associative property of addition, commutative property of addition, identity property of addition, mental math-

Wednesday- Lesson 1- Use the addition properties to add whole numbers- How do you use place value to help with addition of large numbers-

Thursday- Lesson 2- Students will identify patterns in the addition table.

Friday- Students will create and then use games for math centers

Social Studies: Continuing with Geography:

Essential question- Where in the world is our community?

Objectives:

• Locate key geographical features on a map of Earth: the equator, the prime meridian, the four hemispheres, the five oceans, and the seven continents.- Review this
• Identify countries on the map of North America.
• Identify states and communities on a map of the southeastern United States.
• Review Continents

Language Arts in SS-

• Correctly write the name of one’s own community and state.
• Write a journal entry relating to the experiences of an explorer.

Develop key vocabulary: border, capital, continent, country, equator, geography, government, ocean, prime meridian, state.

Connect to prior knowledge: Discuss usefulness of maps and find maps in the classroom.

Activity: Students will make a map of the classroom.

Religion: 

• Daily reading of Jesus Calling devotional book, daily songs, intentions, and prayers.
• All School Mass (no buddies) Tuesday at 8:30
• Rosary Launch on Friday morning (with buddy class)
• Discussion of Mother Mary in connection with the Rosary Launch