Happy New Year! We are excited to be back after break and are looking forward to a great rest of the year. 🙂

Reading: Our focus will be point of view. This week we will use this skill with fiction pieces. We will focus on the idea that words and illustrations help the reader understand characters’ points of view. We will practice this skill throughout the week!

Writing: Our focus for quarter 3 writing is “on demand” writing. We will be writing a variety of responses to literature (literary analysis). This week we will be examining different types of questions and how to organize our responses. We will also be introducing the concept of writing a response to literature using two different texts on the same topic.

Grammar: Last week we reviewed adjectives and adverbs. This week we will focus on comparative (compares two things) and superlative (compares more than two) adjective and adverbs.

Math: We will start our week off by taking the STAR assessment to examine student growth (this test is not for a grade). On Tuesday we will wrap up our practice with fractions greater than a one. The remainder of the week we will be reviewing all of the fraction skills we have learned so far in this unit. Fractions is a new concept for third grade, so we want to make sure that your student has a good understanding of these concepts. The best way to ensure that is to keep reinforcing the skills and provide a wide variety of question. We will continue this review into the following week!

Science: We will be wrapping up our forces and motion unit this week. Our final concept we will be covering is mixtures and solutions!

Upcoming dates
Friday, January 18: Half Day (SIP day)
Monday, January 21: No school