The

Grade 3 Weekly
February 22-26, 2016

Field Trip - Wednesday

This Weeks Focus

Language Arts

This Wednesday we will be going on a

This week we will be working on how to use

field trip to a silk farm to support our

context clues in texts to help understand

current UOI. We will be gone for the

unfamiliar words. We will also continue our

majority of the day, including lunch. Please

work with verb tenses.

ensure your child has a snack, lunch and

water for the trip.

Math
We will begin a new unit on Fractions. We
will review parts of a whole, and express

Agendas
Every day students write their homework
Ag

fractions and sets using different

manipulatives. We will also conduct a

in their agenda. This is a great tool to use

probability experiment and express our

to ensure your child is completing what

findings in wholes and fractions.

needs to be done. Please check their

agenda each night to make sure they

Unity of Inquiry (UOI)

complete what is necessary.

We will continue our inquiry into silkworms.

We will review their life cycle and begin

Homework
Monday Night: IXL W.6 Fractions
Every Night: Read at least one book on
Kids A-Z.

learning about the history of silk and how it

was discovered. We will go on our trip to

the silk farm on Wednesday to see the silk

worms and the process of making silk in
person!