3JI Weekly News

Week of October 29th- November 2nd

Good Evening,

We had a busy week in G3 finishing up our narrative reading and writing units. Students are encouraged to continue writing personal narrative stories at home and bring them to class to share. Students had a special opportunity to celebrate with grade one students as they finished up their writing unit. Both grades shared their writing and gave feedback to each other. The rooms were buzzing with excitement as budding authors shared!

On Wednesday, students will be able to dress up in their Halloween costumes (no weapons and no masks). While there will not be any specific parties, students do love to see the different and creative costumes. You may wish to have your child bring in their school uniform to change into as sometimes those costumes are not comfortable to wear all day.

This Thursday (3MM, 3JA, and 3JH) and Friday (3JI, 3JG, and 3BM), students will be going on a field trip to FRIM (Forest Research Institute of Malaysia). They will need to bring a home snack, as we will be eating our snack at FRIM. Children also need to bring: sunscreen, water bottle, hat, bug spray/repellent and wear closed-toe shoes (it might be muddy). For those of you that are chaperones, please be at school by 8:00. Parents who are chaperoning will ride on the bus with the students. We should arrive back at ISKL around 11:45.

This week will begin on Day 2

Reading This week we will transition toward information/nonfiction reading, with the first focus being on finding the main ideas of the text and text structures. Students will be accessing their prior knowledge of this genre and tapping into topics of interest.

Writing The informational writing unit will be taught in conjunction with our information reading unit. Although this is not a unit where the focus is on researching to write, rather the students will use informational writing strategies as they compose texts about subjects they already know well. This week will give the students the chance to show what they already know about the genre. Students will also begin to develop plans for how to organize their writing.

Math We will continue to use rounding as an estimation strategy by introducing rounding to the nearest 100. Students will continue to show different ways of proving their thinking by using a number line, using benchmark numbers, and finding halfway numbers. As always the parent learning connection has ideas for you in math and reading/writing here.

Science  This week w Students will look for commonalities among components of biomes in different locations, as well as adaptations that plants and animals make to these different biomes. They will begin to study food chains/food webs to think about the interconnectedness of living and non-living elements in an ecosystem.

October 29^th – November 2nd - Choose 2 activities to complete before Friday to share in class.

Math: Show an adult how to add 3 digit numbers. Write down and solve  2-3 problems in your home learning journal.	Language arts: Make a list of things that strong informational authors include in their writing.	Language arts: Read a favorite nonfiction book. Summarize one or more sections of the book using boxes and bullets. Then you can teach your new understanding to an audience.
Math: Play a math game that you have learned in class.	Science: Write down and explain to an adult what are some common features/characteristics of all biomes.	Other: Play a musical instrument. If you do not have any instruments, make your own!

Remember:

• Reading is just what we do. It is expected each night.

3JI Weekly News

Greetings,

We had such a fun week in grade 3! Students were really excited to go and cheer on our IASAS teams and show their ISKL school spirit! I think this will be something that many of the kids remember for a long time.

Students did a really nice job reflecting on our geography and mapping unit. We are all excited to start our new science unit this week. If any of you have expertise in ecosystems, please let us know. We would love to have you come and share your passion with the students.

This week, we will be welcoming a new third-grade class to ISKL. Welcome to Ms. Jen of 3JH. She comes to us with lots of teaching experience and we are excited to work together this year.

This week starts on a day 6.

Reminder: There is no school for children on Monday, October 22nd. This is a professional development day for teachers.

What’s happening this week in the classroom?

Reading This week we end our first reading unit. We will then move from fiction reading to information/nonfiction to focus on main ideas and text structures. This is perfect as we think about areas of interest, so students can build on their strengths.

Writing We are also ending our personal narrative unit.  When we are finished, we will be sending home both the pre and post assessments for this unit. We will use these to help set goals as we move forward. Many aspects of writing are transferable across genres so this information will help us as we move on to informational writing.

Math  We will continue to use rounding as an estimation strategy by introducing rounding to the nearest 100. Students will continue to show different ways of proving their thinking by using a number line, using benchmark numbers, and finding halfway numbers. We will also use our rounding to check and see if our answers for addition and subtraction are reasonable.

Science This week marks the beginning of the Ecosystems unit. We will start out by thinking about what is a scientist? What are ways that scientists interact with the world? What skills do scientists have/use? How do we keep track of our scientific thinking?

3JI Weekly News

Greetings, 

The Global Cardboard Challenge was a huge success in grade 3. Creativity and collaboration filled our common area. Students were engaged and busy problem solving as they designed games, houses, forts, and so much more! 

3JI also worked with 3JG on some Place Value Games this week.

This week starts on a day 1.

What’s happening this week in the classroom? 

Reading Students will continue practicing using their reading strategies to ensure understanding along with making predictions that include evidence from the text. We will also continue practicing retelling the main story events in order and then “growing ideas” by adding on to our own thinking about what we have read. Students are also working on their listening and speaking skills as they have book discussions with their book groups.

Writing  Revision and editing continue to be a focus as students work with more independence on their new narrative. We will focus on using descriptive language and making a clear image in our readers’ mind as they read our stories.

Math We have begun our second math unit and in the coming week will focus on rounding to the nearest ten. We will introduce multiple strategies including using a number line, using benchmark numbers, and finding halfway numbers. As always the parent learning connection has ideas for you in math and reading/writinghere.

Social Studies This week will mark the end of our Mapping and Landforms unit. Students will get an opportunity to share and celebrate the maps that they have created (landform, resource, climate, and population) as well as analyze and ask questions about the maps created by others. We will also have a chance to investigate any further questions that we have about maps and geography that we have not answered yet in the unit.

Week of October 15th, 2018

Choose 2 to complete and return on Friday.

Math: Mr. Morefield and Mr. Mangelsdorf were keeping track of their reading for the week.  Morefield Mangels Mon 38 min 34 min Wed 56 min 54 min Fri 27 min 41 min Who read longer this week?  How much longer? Show your thinking.	Language arts: Read aloud to a person in your family or a doll or stuffed animal.  When you are finished reading, be sure to practice your retell including only the IMPORTANT details.	Language arts:  Make a comic or graphic novel that includes a hidden treasure or map.
Math: Practice your fact fluency (+ or - facts to 20) · Flashcards, online, games, worksheets, or game.	Social Studies:  Now that you have learned about maps. Spend time on google maps or with an atlas and write down everything you notice about different types of maps.	Other: Build something out of recycled material. Take a picture of it and email or print it to show the class on Friday.

Remember: Reading is just what we do. It is exp

Greetings,

Thanks again for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend the conferences. It is always such a wonderful opportunity for the students to share their work and talk about their learning.

Students will participate in the  Global Cardboard Challenge on Monday afternoon.   This is a wonderful event that helps students foster creativity, critical thinking skills, and teamwork as they design, build, and celebrate the wonderful inventions they create out of cardboard. Please send in cardboard with your child tomorrow.

This week starts on a day 4.

What’s happening this week in the classroom?

Reading The focus this week is on being more aware of when a text signals the reader to do more thinking. Students will learn to add their own thinking and consider the author’s purpose when something unexpected happens in the text. We are introducing conditional language such as “could it be that…” or “maybe…” so that students explore several ideas to dig deeper.

Writing  Students will begin writing a second narrative this week and revision and editing will take on a bigger role as students work independently on this narrative. We continue to work on punctuation within dialogue by referring to our mentor text, Come On, Rain! all

Math This week we begin our second math unit, Solving Problems with Units of Measure. In this unit, students will:     Build on the understanding of place value to round whole numbers.    Continue to develop the understanding of addition and subtraction and use strategies and properties to do so proficiently and fluently.  Solve elapsed time, including word problems, by using a number line diagram. Solve word problems involving masses or volumes. We will begin with making conjectures (what we believe to be true) and composing and decomposing numbers.

Social Studies We will continue to look at different types of maps and the information we can glean from them. As we look at different maps of the same area we are trying to make connections of how landforms, climate, and resources all influence the population of different areas. We will also have a guest speaker on Friday sharing his experience as a geographer.