This week our classroom will participate in lots of "boo"errific activities. The students will enjoy Halloween and Fall graphing with sports, apples, pumpkins and leaves. They will also carve pumpkins, make estimations, count pumpkin seeds, measure the diameter, and record the pumpkin weight. It will be a fun-filled week!
There will be a school assembly that consists of Red Ribbon week kicks off on Monday with a visit from two Alpharetta police officers and their K-9 partner, Xena.
The following is a list of the daily themes and how your child can participate.
October 26th “Respect Yourself” - Wear red.
October 27th “Team Spirit” – Wear your favorite team jersey.
October 28th “Put a Cap on Drugs” – Wear your favorite hat.
October 29th “Turn your Back to Drugs” – Wear your shirt
backwards.
October 30th “Love your School” – Wear your favorite spirit wear.
Recess:
Our class is scheduled for recess at 12:15pm every day. Some days are very cool and windy. Students need a jacket and warm shoes when they are playing outside.
Fall Graphing Activity:
On Thursday, October 29th students will participate in a math graphing activity. They will record their data of green, yellow, and red apples, and pumpkins on a pictograph. Another graphing activity will include a sports theme of basketball, baseball, football, and soccer. Thank you parent volunteers in advance for helping students in the classroom. Also, to all the parents who donated the materials for the fun activity. It is always a fun learning experience for the children!
Pumpkin Seed Counting:
On Halloween, the second graders will smell the aroma of a carved pumpkin and scoop pumpkin seeds from the core. They will make predictions of the amount of seeds in the pumpkin, record their seeds on a pumpkin chart, measure the diameter with a tape measure, and weigh their pumpkins. The students will enjoy the festive occasion of Halloween. The DOJO prize will be a special one that can be used when the students go out “trick or treating.”
Safety on Halloween Night-Saturday, October 31st:
The second graders will discuss the Halloween Safety Tips
▲ Trick-or-treat at your local mall or in your neighborhood.
▲ Go with friends. Ask your parents, older sister or brother, or a neighbor to go along.
▲ Carry a flashlight, glowstick, or reflective bag.
▲ Have parents check all treats before you eat them.
ITBS Testing: Everyone did a superb job supporting our third and fifth grade students during ITBS. We worked quietly in our classroom and were absolutely silent every time we had to be in the halls. The students performed well throughout the week. Now that ITBS is over we are again welcoming visitors to our school.
Curriculum Chat: On Monday, October 26th, a “curriculum chat” with a focus on helping students manage stress will take place in the media center at 6:00pm. “Keeping our Kids Cool, Calm and Collected” is the presentation. Learn how to help our students’ better handle stress. The facilitator, Erin Pridgen, is a licensed professional counselor from the Summit Counseling.
Recess:
Our class is scheduled for recess at 12:15pm every day. Some days are very cool and windy. Students need a jacket and warm shoes when they are playing outside.
New Prospect’s School Governance Council is currently working on ways to effectively implement the Project Based Learning (PBL) element of our Strategic Plan. One way they intend to do so is by investing in training for teachers in PBL from the Buck Institute for Education. Part of this investment is asking for a Request for Flexibility (RFF) for the 2016-2017 school year to have 4 full release days where students will not attend school so that the teachers may participate in this highly effective and recommended training. More details about the RFF and the full release days will be communicated at a later date, but at this time, the SGC has prepared a brochure for our school community to provide information about PBL and the Buck Institute.
Reminder: Daylight Savings ends on Sunday, November 1. Turn your clocks back one hour and gain an hour of sleep.
2.1 Math
The students will continue to practice arrays, geometric shapes, fractions, and graphing this week.
A study guide will be sent home on Tuesday, October 27. The math assessment is scheduled for Wednesday, November 4 and Thursday, November 5.
MCC2.G.3 - Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.
Fraction Word Problem:
Robert ordered 2 large pizzas for dinner. He cuts one pizza into halves and the other into fourths. If you were really hungry, would you want a slice that was one half or one fourth? Why?
Draw 2 circles. Cut 1 circle in two equal parts. Then, cut the circle into 4 equal parts.
3.1 Math
Students have been practicing their math skills with arrays. We have been working on distributive and commutative properties of multiplication. The students have been creating groups for division.
This week, we will introduce quarter inch in measurement and graph line plots to answer questions about the data. There will be a review of mulit-step word problems with multiplication and division. A study guide will be sent home on Tuesday, October 27. The math assessment is scheduled for Wednesday, November 4 and Thursday, November 5.
Please use the textbook, quizzes, homework and blogs to help the students master the skills needed to be successful in third grade.
Example:
Tonya has the problem 9 x 7. She wants to show her brother how to solve this problem an easier way using an array. How could she help him?
9 x 7 = ( ___ x ___) + (___ x ___) =
Answer is: 9 x 7 = (9 x 5 ) + (9 x 2) =
63 = 45 + 18
John is measuring the line below to the nearest quarter inch. He states that the line measures eight inches. Is he correct? Why or why not?
Answer is C. The measurement is 8-1/4 inches to the nearest quarter of an inch.
MCC3.OA.3 - Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
MCC3.OA.4 - Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.
MCC3.OA.2 - Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 ÷ 8 as the number of objects in each share when 56 objects are partitioned equally into 8 shares, or as a number of shares when 56 objects are partitioned into equal shares of 8 objects each.
MCC3.OA.7 - Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.
MCC3.NBT.3 - Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10–90 (e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using strategies based on place value and properties of operations
Social Studies:
Georgia Beginnings: The focus of this unit is the founding of Georgia by the British at Savannah and their interactions with Creek and Cherokee Indians. The children will continue to add facts and comparisons of the life of the Creek and Cherokee Indians to their own selves. They will identify the contributions of historical figures that successfully founded Georgia. They will continue to weave their basket looms and apply it to math with arrays and patterns. The students will perform a skit in the classroom of the Creek and Cherokee Indians. Another activity is making an Indian headdress and writing facts about it.
We will continue studying Tomochichi, Mary Musgrove and James Oglethorpe. Students will receive a choice board to help them review each person and show what they have learned about the settlement of Georgia.
The test for this unit is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 3. Look for a study guide to come home next week to help your child prepare for this test.
SS2H1: H1 The student will read about and describe the lives of historical figures James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove in Georgia history.
SS2G2:The student will describe the cultural and geographic systems associated with the historical figures James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove.
SS2E2:The student will identify ways in which goods and services are allocated (by price, majority rule, contests, force, sharing, lottery, command, first-come first-served, personal characteristics, and others).
Writing
Next week is the end of our narrative writing unit. This week we worked on writing. Students will finish publishing this piece next week and present it at our author’s celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 3. This author’s celebration will be just for our class, as we take the time to recognize all the hard work students have put into their writing.
Next week students will also be asked to complete an on demand writing piece. Please refer to last week’s blog to see the expectations for writing in this unit.
Both the writing piece and the on demand piece will be graded for writing skills and grammar skills.
Reading
Next week we will continue our study of nonfiction writing. We will shift our focus to main ideas. Our readings will focus on bats to help get students in the Halloween mood. Each student will be given a packet on bats at their reading level to work on and complete during the week.
There will be a school assembly that consists of Red Ribbon week kicks off on Monday with a visit from two Alpharetta police officers and their K-9 partner, Xena.
The following is a list of the daily themes and how your child can participate.
October 26th “Respect Yourself” - Wear red.
October 27th “Team Spirit” – Wear your favorite team jersey.
October 28th “Put a Cap on Drugs” – Wear your favorite hat.
October 29th “Turn your Back to Drugs” – Wear your shirt
backwards.
October 30th “Love your School” – Wear your favorite spirit wear.
Recess:
Our class is scheduled for recess at 12:15pm every day. Some days are very cool and windy. Students need a jacket and warm shoes when they are playing outside.
Fall Graphing Activity:
On Thursday, October 29th students will participate in a math graphing activity. They will record their data of green, yellow, and red apples, and pumpkins on a pictograph. Another graphing activity will include a sports theme of basketball, baseball, football, and soccer. Thank you parent volunteers in advance for helping students in the classroom. Also, to all the parents who donated the materials for the fun activity. It is always a fun learning experience for the children!
Pumpkin Seed Counting:
On Halloween, the second graders will smell the aroma of a carved pumpkin and scoop pumpkin seeds from the core. They will make predictions of the amount of seeds in the pumpkin, record their seeds on a pumpkin chart, measure the diameter with a tape measure, and weigh their pumpkins. The students will enjoy the festive occasion of Halloween. The DOJO prize will be a special one that can be used when the students go out “trick or treating.”
Safety on Halloween Night-Saturday, October 31st:
The second graders will discuss the Halloween Safety Tips
▲ Trick-or-treat at your local mall or in your neighborhood.
▲ Go with friends. Ask your parents, older sister or brother, or a neighbor to go along.
▲ Carry a flashlight, glowstick, or reflective bag.
▲ Have parents check all treats before you eat them.
ITBS Testing: Everyone did a superb job supporting our third and fifth grade students during ITBS. We worked quietly in our classroom and were absolutely silent every time we had to be in the halls. The students performed well throughout the week. Now that ITBS is over we are again welcoming visitors to our school.
Curriculum Chat: On Monday, October 26th, a “curriculum chat” with a focus on helping students manage stress will take place in the media center at 6:00pm. “Keeping our Kids Cool, Calm and Collected” is the presentation. Learn how to help our students’ better handle stress. The facilitator, Erin Pridgen, is a licensed professional counselor from the Summit Counseling.
Recess:
Our class is scheduled for recess at 12:15pm every day. Some days are very cool and windy. Students need a jacket and warm shoes when they are playing outside.
New Prospect’s School Governance Council is currently working on ways to effectively implement the Project Based Learning (PBL) element of our Strategic Plan. One way they intend to do so is by investing in training for teachers in PBL from the Buck Institute for Education. Part of this investment is asking for a Request for Flexibility (RFF) for the 2016-2017 school year to have 4 full release days where students will not attend school so that the teachers may participate in this highly effective and recommended training. More details about the RFF and the full release days will be communicated at a later date, but at this time, the SGC has prepared a brochure for our school community to provide information about PBL and the Buck Institute.
Reminder: Daylight Savings ends on Sunday, November 1. Turn your clocks back one hour and gain an hour of sleep.
2.1 Math
The students will continue to practice arrays, geometric shapes, fractions, and graphing this week.
A study guide will be sent home on Tuesday, October 27. The math assessment is scheduled for Wednesday, November 4 and Thursday, November 5.
MCC2.G.3 - Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.
Fraction Word Problem:
Robert ordered 2 large pizzas for dinner. He cuts one pizza into halves and the other into fourths. If you were really hungry, would you want a slice that was one half or one fourth? Why?
Draw 2 circles. Cut 1 circle in two equal parts. Then, cut the circle into 4 equal parts.
- I would want one-half because the pieces are larger.
- I would want one-fourth because four is more than two.
- I would want one-fourth because the pieces are larger.
- It doesn’t matter because both pieces are the same.
3.1 Math
Students have been practicing their math skills with arrays. We have been working on distributive and commutative properties of multiplication. The students have been creating groups for division.
This week, we will introduce quarter inch in measurement and graph line plots to answer questions about the data. There will be a review of mulit-step word problems with multiplication and division. A study guide will be sent home on Tuesday, October 27. The math assessment is scheduled for Wednesday, November 4 and Thursday, November 5.
Please use the textbook, quizzes, homework and blogs to help the students master the skills needed to be successful in third grade.
Example:
Tonya has the problem 9 x 7. She wants to show her brother how to solve this problem an easier way using an array. How could she help him?
9 x 7 = ( ___ x ___) + (___ x ___) =
Answer is: 9 x 7 = (9 x 5 ) + (9 x 2) =
63 = 45 + 18
John is measuring the line below to the nearest quarter inch. He states that the line measures eight inches. Is he correct? Why or why not?
- No, he is incorrect because the line measures 7-1/2 inches, which is to the nearest quarter of an inch.
- No, he is correct because the line measures 8-3/4 inches, which is to the nearest quarter of an inch.
- Yes, he is correct because the line measures 8-1/4 inches, which is to the nearest quarter of an inch.
- Yes, he is correct because the line measures 8, which is to the nearest quarter of an inch.
Answer is C. The measurement is 8-1/4 inches to the nearest quarter of an inch.
MCC3.OA.3 - Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
MCC3.OA.4 - Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.
MCC3.OA.2 - Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 ÷ 8 as the number of objects in each share when 56 objects are partitioned equally into 8 shares, or as a number of shares when 56 objects are partitioned into equal shares of 8 objects each.
MCC3.OA.7 - Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.
MCC3.NBT.3 - Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10–90 (e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using strategies based on place value and properties of operations
Social Studies:
Georgia Beginnings: The focus of this unit is the founding of Georgia by the British at Savannah and their interactions with Creek and Cherokee Indians. The children will continue to add facts and comparisons of the life of the Creek and Cherokee Indians to their own selves. They will identify the contributions of historical figures that successfully founded Georgia. They will continue to weave their basket looms and apply it to math with arrays and patterns. The students will perform a skit in the classroom of the Creek and Cherokee Indians. Another activity is making an Indian headdress and writing facts about it.
We will continue studying Tomochichi, Mary Musgrove and James Oglethorpe. Students will receive a choice board to help them review each person and show what they have learned about the settlement of Georgia.
The test for this unit is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 3. Look for a study guide to come home next week to help your child prepare for this test.
SS2H1: H1 The student will read about and describe the lives of historical figures James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove in Georgia history.
SS2G2:The student will describe the cultural and geographic systems associated with the historical figures James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove.
SS2E2:The student will identify ways in which goods and services are allocated (by price, majority rule, contests, force, sharing, lottery, command, first-come first-served, personal characteristics, and others).
Writing
Next week is the end of our narrative writing unit. This week we worked on writing. Students will finish publishing this piece next week and present it at our author’s celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 3. This author’s celebration will be just for our class, as we take the time to recognize all the hard work students have put into their writing.
Next week students will also be asked to complete an on demand writing piece. Please refer to last week’s blog to see the expectations for writing in this unit.
Both the writing piece and the on demand piece will be graded for writing skills and grammar skills.
Reading
Next week we will continue our study of nonfiction writing. We will shift our focus to main ideas. Our readings will focus on bats to help get students in the Halloween mood. Each student will be given a packet on bats at their reading level to work on and complete during the week.