Inside Third Grade
April 11, 2016
We are working on:
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Teachers’ Corner:
Determining the main idea and supporting
details in a nonfiction text.
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Using context clues, word parts (prefixes,
root/base words, suffixes), and related
words to determine what a word means.
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Ask and answer questions to identify
characteristics of traditional stories.
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Recount key details to explain the theme of
a folktale.
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Compare characters of stories written by
the same author.
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Represent and solve 2-step word problems
using equations (all operations).
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With guidance and support from peers and
adults, develop and strengthen writing as
needed by revising and editing.
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Edit narrative stories to include
conventions demonstrating command of
Language standards.
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Writing realistic narrative stories with story
elements (characters, setting,
problem/solution).
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Design a roller coaster for a given set of
requirements using physics knowledge of
pushes, pulls, and friction
Last week, important decisions were made at
the county and state level impacting our school
calendar. At this point, the State denied the MCPS
request for a 2-day waiver to cover the extra
weather-related closings this Winter. At this point,
we have not received any additional information
about the last day of school for students, but it
appears it might be later than the original date
posted on the calendar. We will continue to
update you of any last day of school changes in our
newsletters as we receive information from MCPS.
This month, we are sending home information
about our only out-of-school field trip in Grade 3.
As we mentioned in one of last month’s
newsletter, the trip on May 24th to the Baltimore
Museum of Industry in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is
a costly, however it extends several of the things
we have learned this year in both Science and
Social Studies with hands-on activities that are
very memorable. The cost will be a sum of the
museum’s fee and the charter school bus (MCPS
policy dictates we must take a charter bus when
traveling outside of our local area). There are a
few scholarships available to help defray the cost
of the trip; please contact your child’s teacher or
Mrs. Starr if you feel the cost is a burden when this
paperwork is sent home. Please be on the lookout for the field trip packet which will come home
soon about the field trip, the chaperone lottery,
and the required permission slip.
Important Dates to Remember:
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April 11- Red Monday Folder sent home; please sign and return Tuesday
April 13- Math Quick Quiz paper due today
April 18- Red Monday folder sent home; please sign and return Tuesday
April 20- Math Quick Quiz paper due today
April 26- No school; primary election day in Maryland
May 24- Field trip to Baltimore Museum of Industry