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?