The

Grade 3 Weekly
January 11-15, 2016

This Weeks Focus

Field Trip

Language Arts

This Friday we will return to the rice

This week we will continue with Authors

paddies for the next step of rice

Purpose, or the reason the author wrote

cultivation. This week we will be weeding.

the text (persuade, inform, entertain). We

The students will be working/walking in

will also be comparing helping verbs and

the water, so please make sure students

linking verbs.

are wearing rubber boots!! Please bring a

change of shoes for when we return.

Math

Short Day

In our geometry unit this week we will be

covering quadrangles, polygons, angles, and

Wednesday is a short day. Please make

symmetry.

sure your child is picked up at 12:15pm.

Unity of Inquiry (UOI)

We will continue our work with simple
machines. We will complete a few different
activities identifying simple machines within
our classroom and around the school. We

Homework
Tuesday: IXL V.22 (Polygons)
Thursday: IXL V.5 (Symmetry)
*Please make sure your child completes
these on the nights they are assigned, not
before, as they have not yet learned the
content.
Every night: Kids A-Z Reading

will reflect on our findings and discuss how

simple machines make our lives easier.