Announcements for this week:

1. Math iReady Test is on Wednesday (Students need to bring in headphones)

2. Reading iReady will be on Tuesday (Students need headphones also)

3. Math Test is on Tuesday.

4. Spelling Test is on Friday.

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

• Comprehension questions packet. (short response, not multiple choice) per chapter. These are done both whole group and independently.

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.

1. Reading groups have been started. Students are reading small passages and asked comprehension questions afterwards. Next week, Lit circles will be officially starting and organized.

Students will also be working on the following:

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

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

Students will practice spelling daily with September spelling menu activities and on Seesaw during the week. Spelling words and packet will be sent home Monday.

Writing: 

• Students will write daily entries in their September journal and notebook prompts and on Seesaw.
• Students will write an essay when Third Grade Angels is completed.

Math:

Monday- Chapter 1 test review

Tuesday- Chapter 2 test on place value

Wednesday: iReady Testing

Thursday-- Lesson 1 Chapter 2- Addition

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

Students will be able to:

• 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

Friday- Students will do math stations to review lesson 1

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
• Start Session 3