Inside Third Grade
September 28 - October 2, 2015
Common Core Curriculum
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Identifying cause/effect
relationships in texts
Comparing items within a text
(characters, settings, how a
character changes)
Explaining how text, online
features, and search tools clarify
information relevant to a topic.
Using a known root word as a
clue to the meaning of an
unknown word with the same
root, and reviewing the
placement and role of prefixes
and suffixes in determining a
word’s meaning.
Publishing Narrative stories as
podcasts using the Voice
Recorder app
Brainstorming and discussing
possible research topics
Applying context clues from
immediately around the
word/phrase to determine the
word’s meaning.
Evaluating whether it is
necessary to decompose in a
subtraction problem and then
subtract within 1000 using
strategies and algorithms.
Suggesting possible causes for
changes in the motion of objects
as they move across different
textured surfaces, and model
them.
Demonstrating how gravity
works, designing a track, and
using materials to carry out the
investigation.
Observing and describing what
may have caused a change in an
object’s motion.
Teachers’ Corner:
This week we will introduce two new long-term homework
components—Math and Word Study. Later this week, the students
will bring home a Math letter than will explain how we will be
focusing on two fact families each week to review and improve our
speed and accuracy. This ongoing basic fact practice will require you
to initial that your child practiced his/her facts twice. Our first Math
Quick Quiz assignment is due Wed., Oct. 7.
In addition, we will be sending home our first Word Study
homework packet at the end of the week focusing on some of the
spelling changes that occur to nouns when they are made plural. The
packet which will come home on Friday will include homework
practice, along with specific words for your child to study. The Word
Study packet will be due the day of the quiz: Friday, Oct 9th. This
Word Study packet will also include a cover sheet with addition
details.
Finally, our Woodfield students will be bringing home Interim
Reports next week. Please look for these reports which will include
information about how your child is performing on the Third Grade
academic content and Thinking and Academic Success Skills at this
point in the marking period. There will be a few areas that may not
yet be reported because we have not yet taught those indicators at
this point in the marking period. For example, informative and
persuasive writing are areas we are just now beginning to assess so
we won’t have scores to report at this time. Despite this, we are
sending home Interim Reports to all parents to further underscore our
commitment to communicating with you, our partners in education.
Important Dates to Remember:
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Mon., Sept. 28- Red Monday Folder comes home; signed folder is
due Tuesday
Tues., Sept. 29- Gr. 3 PTA Book Fair preview day; REMINDER: The
Reading Log will be due NEXT Tuesday.
Wed., Sept. 30- Math Quick Quiz assignment given (due Wed.,
Oct. 7)
Fri., Oct. 2- Our 1st Word Study Plurals Packet given today (Packet
will be due Friday, Oct. 9, on the day of the Word Study Quiz);
Early Release Dismissal today
Mon., Oct. 5- Red Monday Folder comes home; signed folder is
due Tuesday
Tues., Oct. 6 - Fall Picture Day; Reading Log due; new 1-week
Reading Log assigned that relates to Word Study HW this week
Wed., Oct. 7- Math Quick Quiz WS due today; Math Quiz today!
Fri., Oct. 9- Plurals Word Study Packet due today; Plurals Quiz
today; Reading Log (plurals focus) is due today—if more time is
needed to complete, contact your child’s teacher