Solar Eclipse!

 

Happy April!

 Reminders:

• There is NO SCHOOL on Wednesday, April 10.

• There is half day on Thursday, April 18. Hynes students will be dismissed at noon.

Testing: 3rd graders will be IAR testing this week. Please remind your child to charge their Chromebook!

Math: We have completed Module 5 on fractions and will be starting our sixth module on collecting and displaying data. Students will be generating and organizing data to create and analyze bar graphs, picture graphs, and line plots.

Reading: Students are starting off the month by focusing on determining the Topic, Main Idea, and supporting details of various texts. 

Language Arts: Students will be drafting and finalizing their biographies!

Social Studies: We will be wrapping our Native Americans unit right after spring break! Then we will move on to the next science unit on Inheritance and Traits.

Cursive has started! Hopefully, students will write sentences and stories using cursive in May!

Book Character Dress up Day

 

Totem Poles & Tepees

 

March update

Math: Students are still learning about fractions and locating fractions on number lines and comparing fractions with like and unlike denominators using number lines! Students will also realize that equivalent fractions are at the same point on the number line, and will also be expressing whole numbers as fractions!

Reading: We are wrapping up our text set involving stories on facing challenges. Students have worked on discussing character traits and identifying challenges characters went through. We will be starting to work on reading longer passages and answering multiple choice questions and working on extended responses.

Language Arts: Students have been learning about biographies and listening to the accomplishments and struggles of certain individuals. Eventually students will be writing an opinion piece on a person that students want to learn more about. 

Social Studies: Finally, we have begun our Native Americans unit. Students will learn about the 5 regions of Native Americans: the Artic/Far North, Northwest Coast, Southwest, Plains, and Eastern Woodlands. Students will be reading about their way of life, types of homes they made and lived in, what they eat, and how they got food!

• March Book Reports are due: Tuesday, April 2nd.
• There is NO SCHOOL Monday, March 25- Friday, March 29. Happy Spring Break! 

February updates

Math:

We will be finishing our area module and diving into our fractions module. Students will be partitioning wholes into equal parts, identifying unit fractions, representing parts of a whole as a fractions using number bonds, comparing fractions, and more!

Reading:

Students are wrapping up on our genre study on Realistic Fiction books. Our next text set will be about honoring traditions. Students will be focusing on summarizing. 

• February Book Reports will be due March 4th!

Writing:

 

We are finishing our final drafts of our nonfiction picture books! Students have mastered how to identify when a text is nonfiction and nonfiction text features! We will be moving into our next writing unit which is biography and opinion writing.

Science:

Students are super close to answering the question: Why does the train change from floating to falling? 

• There is a half-day on Thursday, February 8th. Hynes students are dismissed at noon.
• There is NO SCHOOL on Friday, February 16th or Monday, February 19th. 
• Parent/teacher conferences are on Thursday & Friday, February 15 &16. For sign-up & times, please see the information sent in an email from the tech team!

Happy January!

Math:

We have begun our fourth module. Students will learn that area is the number of square units it takes to cover a shape. 

Writing:

Students have been working hard on researching facts about their animal. We will organize their notes in preparation for our nonfiction books. That will lead to drafting and publishing our nonfiction picture books!

Reading:

Students have been learning about identifying story plot elements. Then, we will start a genre study on realistic fiction books.

Science/STEM:

Students are still exploring the concept of balanced forces!

• It is almost winter benchmarking time! Students will taking Reading and Math MAP tests as well as Fastbridge testing to monitor progress in the next couple of weeks! 
• There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, January 15th. Happy MLK Day!
• There is a half-day for students on Thursday, January 18th. (Hynes students are dismissed at noon)
• January book reports are due February 2nd. 

Spirit Week

 Next week, our last before winter break, will be a schoolwide spirit week. Please see below!

Happy December!

Reading: 

We just finished our expository nonfiction text! We are moving on to an author study on Janell Cannon, where students will be noticing similarities in her writing and illustrations. 

Our December book report will be on a FICTION book at students' personal reading levels. It will be due after winter break on Wednesday, January 10th.

Language/Writing:

Students have published their narratives. Now, we are starting our nonfiction writing unit. Students will learn about the nonfiction text features and that authors write nonfiction to inform, explain, and even entertain their readers. After reading the mentor texts students will research an animal and will be writing a nonfiction book. 

Math:

Students have completed the telling time portion of Module 2, and are now moving on to measuring weight with grams and kilograms, and measuring liquid volume with milliliters and liters. After these topics, students will be learning about rounding to the nearest ten and hundred. We should finished Module 2 before winter break!

Science/STEM:

Students are still learning about FORCES! They are having a lot of magnet experimentation and reading about answering this main question: Why does the train rise without anything touching it?

Announcements:

• December book repots are due: Wednesday, January 10.
• There is a half-day for students on Thursday, December 14. Hynes students are dismissed at noon.
• There is NO SCHOOL Monday, December 25-Friday, January 5. Happy Winter Break!

Happy November

Reading: 

Students are reading books on expository nonfiction. Students are learning to recognize that the authors of these texts give facts about a topic and organize information in different ways!

Our November book report will be on a nonfiction book at students' personal reading levels. It will be due Friday, December 1st. 

Language/Writing:

We are finishing up our narratives! Students have been editing and revising with partners. I'm looking forward to seeing and reading their final products. After Thanksgiving break, we will begin our nonfiction writing unit, which begins by reading mentor texts and noticing what nonfiction authors do to engage and inform readers.

Math: 

Students have completed Module 3 on Multiplication and Division Facts. Please continue to practice these facts at home. We have started Module 2 on time and measurement. Students will learn about telling time and finding elapsed time using a number line. Then students will learn about measuring weight with grams and kilograms, and measuring liquid volume with milliliters and liters. Towards the end of the module, students will be learning about rounding!

Science/STEM:

We are using a new science program, Amplify Science. The first unit is called Balancing Forces. In this unit, students will be learning about the invisible and visible forces.

There is NO SCHOOL Monday, November 20- Friday, November 24. Happy Thanksgiving!

October Announcements

•  Book reports are due Friday, November 3rd
• There is NO SCHOOL on Tuesday, October 31. It is Teacher Institute Day.