The

Grade 3 Weekly
January 23-27, 2017

This Weeks Focus

Maternity Leave

As you know, I will be leaving on

Language Arts

maternity leave this year.

We will finish off our work with comparative

My last day will be Friday February 17th.

and superlative adjective, and then review

This is the Friday before Spring Break.

adverbs. We will also discuss making connections

After the break, Ms. Jyoti will be taking

when reading including: text-to-self, text-to-text,

over the class for the rest of the year.

and text-to work. Students will learn the

difference between a surface connection and
deep connection as well. Please ask your child to

Multiplication Mad Minutes

make connections to books you are reading at

home, explaining the type of connection it is and

Your child should (at least) be done to the 5

how they connect to it.

or 6 times table at this point. If not, please

continue to work with them on memorizing

Math

their facts.

Monday we will have our unit test for unit 5. On

Tuesday we will start our new unit on different

Students must be completed all by Feb. 10.

operations. We will review and practice tradefirst subtraction, as well as learn a few

Homework

Tuesday: Trade-First Subtraction Worksheet

Wednesday: Simple Machines Homework
Thursday: IXL G.7
Every Night:
-Read on Kids A-Z
-Review facts for Mad Minutes

different games to practice multiplication facts,

including Baseball Multiplication and Beat the

Calculator.

Unity of Inquiry (UOI)

We will continue working with simple machines
this week. Students will explore household items
that work with simple machines. We will also be
completing a STEM project with simple machines.