Ms.Hubbard's, 3rd grade Puma Thinkers

November 2014

Important Dates

Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014: Chapters 5 and 6 Quiz, European Exploration and Early English Settlements

Monday, Nov. 24, 2014: Unit 4 Division, Math Assessment

Forget-Me- Not Dates

Friday, Nov. 14, 2014: Charleston Wrap Last Day to Pick up

Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014; Report Letters Go Home, Sign Envelope and Return

Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014: No School, Teacher Compensatory Day

Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014: No School, Thanksgiving Break

Friday, Nov. 28, 204: No school, Thanksgiving Break

Subjects at a Glance

Math: Unit 3 Math test went home on this Monday. Please sign and return your child's test. We have begun Unit 4, Division, mastery of partial quotients and/or standard algorithm are expected. It is recommended that students learn both; however, they are encouraged to use the most comfortable algorithm of their choice. Students must be able to check a division problem using multiplication. Following this section are the Report letter outcomes.

Students are expected to work continuously on basic fact mastery. Please use a variety of methods and tools to acquire mastery of addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts.

Reading: All students were benchmarked using Ann Arbor Public Schools Literacy assessments. Also, we have concluded our study of realistic fiction text. Our next goal is to teach students how to use graphic organizers to aide in comprehension and how to find the main idea. Students will be giving a pretest and post test.

Word Study: My reading class studied parts of speech and how words are formed. Word Study resumed this week and we are back on schedule studying Latin and Greek roots.

Writing: We have used writing time to write SMART Goals using compound and complex sentences.

Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time-bound

Students were instructed to write 2 academic goals and 1 personal. As they self-monitor their goals, students will continuously write new ones. This activity was District inspired.

This week, we began writing descriptive and expository paragraphs. Some our topics will be Gratitude, favorite meal and Columbian Exchange. Students will master his concept prior to beginning essays.

Cursive; We have completed a pretest to assess which student needs instruction as opposed to more practice writing cursive letters. Some students have begun learning how to write letters.

Poetry: Poetry will resume with our study of Assonance and figurative language: simile and metaphors.

Social Studies: Students completed European Explore resumes in Chapter 5 in self selected groups. Also, students were expected to complete a graphic organizer demonstrating the positive and negative impacts of the Columbian Exchange. In chapter 6, students will be expected to comprehend the Mayflower Compact as well as create concept maps for 1 English settlement and 2 English colonies. There will be a quiz combining chapter 5 and 6.

Also, I have begun posting Social Studies Outlines in a separate section on this blog.

Science: Mrs. Kimmey will be beginning the Force and Motion Unit. In lieu of a unit test, there will be a project designed assessment.

Unit 4, Division outcomes

Divides whole numbers with and without remainders: relate division to repeated subtraction.
Relates division of whole numbers with remainders to multiplication.
Understands division is indicated by different symbols, e.g. 2÷ 3= 2/3= 2 is the dividend, 3 is the divisor, and the answer is the quotient.
Solves applied problems involving multiplication and division of whole numbers. (Understands that they are the inverse or opposite of each other.)
Fluently divides up to a four-digit number by a two-digit number.

Report Letters

Report letters will be sent home in an envelope attached to your child's NWEA test report. It is expected that the envelope be returned to school with a parent or guardian signature. If you have any questions, please contact me and we will address these issues mutually.