Miss Diazs Classroom News for January 13 2017
Miss Diaz’s 3rd Grade Classroom News The Week of January 11th – January 13th
Email: [email protected] Twitter:@ClassWithMsDiaz Website: http://flossmoorhills.sd161.org/classes/21637/
Upcoming Events 1/16
No School
1/18
MAP Testing: Math
1/23
MAP Testing: Reading Our OurLearning Learning
Celebrations
• Jaylen’s birthday was this week. Happy birthday, Jaylen! • Alaina will continue to be our star student next week. Great job for showing excellent character and hard work!
Math: We began Unit 4 with our focus standards being word problems & OA8). word problems Social (OA3 Studies: WeThese continued learningwere about challenging and caused students to think at a deeper level in the they early history of Plainfield. We(stopping experienced which applied the stop sign strategy at periods and commas and to then circle and keyand phrases). Next what it was live likenumbers the settlers Native week, we will continue ourhaving focus onathese 2 standards with an Americans through bartering/trading emphasis of showing our work with drawing a picture, writing coordinating equations, andexperienced solving multi step wordon problems. simulation. Students hands Shared We continued Unit 2. We also RL whatReading: it was like to use what they had continued as a 3.7, explaining how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations form oftocurrency and obtain need. contribute what is conveyed by theitems wordsthey in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting) with the story: Owl Moon and Dear Mrs. LaRue. We Math: We continued reviewing in preparation practiced this strategy by reading the books aloud and for next week’s test. Finally, we took the discussing the text through turning and telling and having deep discussions regarding symbolism gathering outcome assessment. To refineand our skills, we inferences from the illustration. Next week, we awill wrap up created a 4 ways to divide chart and facts the standard by practicing it in collaborative groups and also independently. family holly display.In grammar, we worked on and will continue to explore shades of meaning and identifying the differences between their meaning, all e.g., knew, believed, Shared Reading: We reviewed grammar suspected, heard, wondered (L.3.5.C). These standards and components. through will reading be wrapped up, which will We lead did into this our unit review and assessment of standards taught for theclass quarter. playing showdown and having a whole Writing: We continued drafting and researching about our reading practicethat with topics to comprehension truly convince our audience ourour opinion and reasons are valid. We also reviewed how to compose whiteboards and discussing our thinking. Wea body paragraph, in addition to directly addressing our audience then finished ELAour outcome and their thinkingall within writing toassessments. make our readers personally connect to our opinion essays. Next week, we Writing: We published our planet papers andvoice will continue drafting; learning how to use a strong by including word choices, how to address presented ourstrong research projects along with the solution to our problem in our writing, and review the our display. All and of the presentations were components styles of an introduction paragraph. Science: learning living great! We We alsocontinued completed theabout outcome. things. To build background knowledge, we learned about how living things are classified in many different ways. We also learned how animals have inherited and acquired behaviors and traits.
Homework Read nightly for 20 minutes
Weekly Writing Due Wednesdays
Reminders Please read the informational letter
A on big thank you to that will multiplication quizzes the PTO forPracticing sent homemoms next week. mathup facts is imperative. setting a great party! As holiday of this quarter, students are able to write a couple different writing piecesainwonderful their weekly writing to Have holiday practice skills learned in class. season. am soanthankful These piecesI include: opinion and narrative. to have your children as
my students. Each and
Please check your child’s supplies. every of them makes Manyone students are missing headphones me
realize hownext week. MAP testing continues These tests will be a critical truly factor in identifying growth. blessed I am! Please be sure your child gets a good night’s sleep, in addition to eating a healthy dinner and breakfast. Tic Tac Toe Due Dates
Practice multiplication facts
January 20th January 23rd January 24th
Email: [email protected] Twitter:@ClassWithMsDiaz Website: http://flossmoorhills.sd161.org/classes/21637/
Upcoming Events 1/16
No School
1/18
MAP Testing: Math
1/23
MAP Testing: Reading Our OurLearning Learning
Celebrations
• Jaylen’s birthday was this week. Happy birthday, Jaylen! • Alaina will continue to be our star student next week. Great job for showing excellent character and hard work!
Math: We began Unit 4 with our focus standards being word problems & OA8). word problems Social (OA3 Studies: WeThese continued learningwere about challenging and caused students to think at a deeper level in the they early history of Plainfield. We(stopping experienced which applied the stop sign strategy at periods and commas and to then circle and keyand phrases). Next what it was live likenumbers the settlers Native week, we will continue ourhaving focus onathese 2 standards with an Americans through bartering/trading emphasis of showing our work with drawing a picture, writing coordinating equations, andexperienced solving multi step wordon problems. simulation. Students hands Shared We continued Unit 2. We also RL whatReading: it was like to use what they had continued as a 3.7, explaining how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations form oftocurrency and obtain need. contribute what is conveyed by theitems wordsthey in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting) with the story: Owl Moon and Dear Mrs. LaRue. We Math: We continued reviewing in preparation practiced this strategy by reading the books aloud and for next week’s test. Finally, we took the discussing the text through turning and telling and having deep discussions regarding symbolism gathering outcome assessment. To refineand our skills, we inferences from the illustration. Next week, we awill wrap up created a 4 ways to divide chart and facts the standard by practicing it in collaborative groups and also independently. family holly display.In grammar, we worked on and will continue to explore shades of meaning and identifying the differences between their meaning, all e.g., knew, believed, Shared Reading: We reviewed grammar suspected, heard, wondered (L.3.5.C). These standards and components. through will reading be wrapped up, which will We lead did into this our unit review and assessment of standards taught for theclass quarter. playing showdown and having a whole Writing: We continued drafting and researching about our reading practicethat with topics to comprehension truly convince our audience ourour opinion and reasons are valid. We also reviewed how to compose whiteboards and discussing our thinking. Wea body paragraph, in addition to directly addressing our audience then finished ELAour outcome and their thinkingall within writing toassessments. make our readers personally connect to our opinion essays. Next week, we Writing: We published our planet papers andvoice will continue drafting; learning how to use a strong by including word choices, how to address presented ourstrong research projects along with the solution to our problem in our writing, and review the our display. All and of the presentations were components styles of an introduction paragraph. Science: learning living great! We We alsocontinued completed theabout outcome. things. To build background knowledge, we learned about how living things are classified in many different ways. We also learned how animals have inherited and acquired behaviors and traits.
Homework Read nightly for 20 minutes
Weekly Writing Due Wednesdays
Reminders Please read the informational letter
A on big thank you to that will multiplication quizzes the PTO forPracticing sent homemoms next week. mathup facts is imperative. setting a great party! As holiday of this quarter, students are able to write a couple different writing piecesainwonderful their weekly writing to Have holiday practice skills learned in class. season. am soanthankful These piecesI include: opinion and narrative. to have your children as
my students. Each and
Please check your child’s supplies. every of them makes Manyone students are missing headphones me
realize hownext week. MAP testing continues These tests will be a critical truly factor in identifying growth. blessed I am! Please be sure your child gets a good night’s sleep, in addition to eating a healthy dinner and breakfast. Tic Tac Toe Due Dates
Practice multiplication facts
January 20th January 23rd January 24th
