Weekly Learning Targets and Important Information

THIS WEEK'S IMPORTANT INFORMATION
REMINDERS
CMAS
I am SO PROUD of our class! The students worked so hard on their state tests and really persevered. We are done!! :)

PARTY THIS THURSDAY
Our class has earned a party for reaching 100 TTE Pack Pride Tickets/Tokens. It will be this Thursday afternoon, and we will celebrate with pizza and a movie in our classroom. If your child does not like pizza, they may still order school lunch or bring their own food from home. The students will vote on a G-rated movie early in the week. 

iREADY
End-of-year iReady testing begins this week at TTE. Third grade will start with math on Tuesday through Thursday and reading next week. We will only test for about 30 minutes a day. Please check in with your child to make sure they have working headphones at school. (We only have a couple of extra pairs in our classroom.)

MATH FACTS
Please make sure your child is practicing his/her multiplication (and then division) facts at home. By the end of the year, third grade students are expected to have these facts memorized, 0 through 12.   

END-OF-YEAR PARTY
Our end-of-year party will be on May 21 from 1:30PM- 2:30PM on the grassy knoll. We would love for all families to attend. Thank you to our fabulous room parents for planning this event!

LEARNING TARGETS
READING
This week in reading, the students will be reading a variety of informational texts about extreme weather.
Specific Learning Targets:
* Use text features (headings, subheadings, captions, bold words, glossaries, indexes, charts, diagrams, and tables of contents) to locate and understand information
* Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of informational texts
* Determine the meaning of academic and domain-specific words in a text using context and text features.

WRITING

This week in writing, the students will be creating a poetry anthology with their own original poems. We hope to share these with first grade on Thursday.

Specific Learning Targets:

*  Understand key poetry language (stanza, rhyming, rhythm, mood, line, line break, and figurative language) and how to use it

*  Use sensory details and descriptive language to create vivid images

MATH
Some of our math time this week will be spent taking Math iReady. However, we will also be learning about volume and capacity, as well as reviewing various concepts.

Specific Learning Targets:

*  Measure and estimate liquid volumes (liters and milliliters)

*  Measure and estimate the mass of objects (in grams and kilograms)

*  Choose appropriate tools (like beakers, scales, and measuring cups) to measure volume and mass

*  Solve one- and two-step word problems involving mass or volume using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division

 

SCIENCE:
We will be continuing with our Earth Science study of weather. 

Specific Learning Targets:

*  Describe different types of extreme weather (like floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires)

*  Explain how extreme weather affects people, animals, and the environment

*  Design or describe solutions to reduce the impact of extreme weather on people and communities