Week of DECEMBER 1- 5
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving break.
THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR SPECIAL VISITORS! The children enjoyed sharing part of their day with you.
REMINDERS
PLEASE send your child to school prepared with appropriate outerwear for recess as the days get colder.
As this new month begins, please supply your child with new, sharpened pencils with erasers.
District benchmark testing (math and language arts) will occur on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
CW holiday concert: Wednesday, December 17th beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Grade 3 field trip to Webb Deane Stevens Museums to continue our study of Wethersfield’s history during the colonial times- Friday, December 19th.
SOCIAL STUDIES and READING: We will move up in time to Colonial living in Wethersfield and how the Wongunk tribe was affected. Our study of Colonial living will be in preparation for our next field trip to the Webb Deane Stevens Museum on December 20th. Our historical fiction reading is reinforcing this as well as an internet project on when the Europeans arrived in America. We will continue our historical fiction reading and doing activities around the books Sam Eaton’s Day and Sarah Morton’s Day. These books depict the life of pilgrim children. We will continue to focus on using good reading strategies (evaluate, question, summarize, monitor and clarify, predict and infer, making connections). Comprehension strategies will focus on author’s viewpoint, categorize and classify, noting details, and main idea and supporting details.
Nightly responses as well as classroom responses are progressing nicely. Please remind you child to include enough details about the story and how a character feels or acts to show understanding of the story.
We will also continue our “Celebrating Traditions” theme by reading another story in our Anthology titled: Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope and will continue skill and language arts concepts around this Mexican family tradition story. Our strategy focus will be on questioning.
WRITING: We will focus on writing narrative stories. We will use some of the seeds that are kept so comfortably in the student’s writer’s notebooks. Hopefully the family stories told over Thanksgiving break will spark some interesting interpretations! We also continue to practice writing a paragraph that explains.
WORD WORK: We will practice dictionary skills (guide words) and continue to work on proper nouns. Spelling rules for long o words (oa, ew,ou, ow) and plurals.
We will begin our review of cursive writing.
MATH: We will begin our unit on multiplication. Children should learn 0’s, 1’s and 2’s for now. 5’s and 10’s will be next.
SCIENCE: We will begin our unit on matter (hopefully) this week. This will extend the lessons done in second grade incorporating the scientific process.
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