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Grade 3 Weekly
October 12-16, 2015

This Weeks Focus

Short Day and Spring Break

Language Arts

Wednesday is a short day. Please pick

your child up at 12:15.

Our focus skill will be cause and effect. We will

I hope everyone enjoys Spring Break

recognize what a cause is and the effect it has.

read a variety of books to practice and

We will also focus on irregular plural nouns.

next week. Relax with your families and I

This week we add the final component to our

will see you back on Monday October 26.

Daily 5 routine Word Work!

Math

Field Trip Rice Paddies

We will be familiarizing ourselves with measuring

This Friday we will be taking our first trip to

in both the US customary system (inches, feet,

the Rice Paddies to extend our learning with our

yards) as well as the metric system (millimeters,

new Unit of Inquiry. A permission form is being

centimeters, meters). We will be measuring to

sent home on Monday. Please make sure your

and inches as well as centimeters. We will

child brings/wears his or her rubber boots and

also be using rulers, measuring tapes, yardsticks

brings a snack and water.

and meter sticks to practice our skills around

the school.

IXL Homework
This weeks IXL homework is U.3. The
focus is measuring using an inch ruler. Each
student should complete the questions
independently. This shows how well he or
she understands the concept. They do not
receive a mark based on their Smart Score
or amount of time they take.

Unity of Inquiry (UOI)

We are beginning our second Unit of Inquiry
this week Save the Planet or Feed My Family
with a focus on rice and its effect on
Madagascar. We will start by learning about
staple foods around the world and end our week
with our first trip to the rice paddies to learn
the first steps in rice cultivation.