Important Dates: February 1st: Young Georgia Author's submissions due (more info below)
February 2nd: Spring Picture Day February 12th: Hands on New Prospect February 17th: STEAM DAY February 21st: President's Day-No School February 28th: Early Release at 12:20 Assessment Dates: February 4th: RL.9 Check in-Comparing Plot/Setting of books February 4th: Advanced Math Check In: Factors and Multiples February 4th: Accelerated Math Check In February 4th: Conjunctions Check In Homework Reminder: Please remember to check your child's agenda daily for homework. Every 3rd grade student has math homework each night. It can be a paper assignment or assigned Iready lessons. Your child should have written it in their agenda. Please reach out to your child's math teacher with any questions regarding homework. It is New Prospect's policy for reading and math homework each night. Remember to have your child reading 15 minutes each night! After they read, great questions to ask them to support skills we are working on in class are: 1. Why might the character be this way? 2. What traits is your character showing? 3. How has your character changed throughout the book? Student Success Skill: Fairness Writing: We started our second essay this week. We are working hard to refine our introductions, transitions, evidence, elaboration, and conclusions. Reading: We finished Because of Winn Dixie this week and were sad to see it end. This is always a favorite among 3rd graders. Our check in was today and will be coming home in Thursday folders. Next week we continue our character studies unit with a new read aloud: Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel. At the end of the unit we will be comparing Because of Winn Dixie and Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel. Math: Be sure to check out each math page for more details about current units. On-Level: This week is about fractions. We will dividing shapes into equal parts, creating fraction strips, and playing fraction games. Advanced: This week we worked on multiplicate comparison word problems. Next week we are moving into multiples and factors of numbers. We will have a check in on Friday. Acc Math: Our unit test was on Friday, feedback will be coming home in Thursday folders. Unit 5 will begin next week and is about Fractions and Decimals. Phonics: This week we will learn about Dipthongs au, aw, augh, and al. Next week we move back to grammar and will work on conjunctions. Social Studies: We started a new social studies unit: Colonial America! We will discover what was same and different about the northern, middle, and southern colonies. We will research what life was like for women, men, children, and slaves in Colonial America as well what a colonial village was like. Young Georgia Authors "Once again, it’s time for the annual Young Georgia Author’s Writing Competition sponsored by the Georgia Department of Education. The purpose of this competition is to encourage our K-12 students to develop enthusiasm for and expertise in their writing, provide a context to celebrate their writing success, and recognize student achievement in the arts and academics. All students have worked diligently to improve their writing so we want to encourage all students to participate in this amazing opportunity and showcase their writing talents across our district and throughout the state. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE Any student in grades K-5 may submit a writing piece. Each writing piece will be judged and 1 will be selected from each grade level to represent New Prospect at the district level. WHAT TO WRITE Unlike many writing competitions, the YGA does not provide a prompt to which students must respond or provide any other boundaries to their genre choice or creativity beyond a 1900-word limit. (if typed, double-spaced Times New Roman is preferred). Entries may include:
Entries + the Entry Form must be submitted to Diana Zarzour on or before February 1st. Entries will be judged the morning of Feb. 2nd and the winning piece per each grade level will be sent to the district that day. Frequently Asked Questions Q. The instructions reference the "original" work, but then they talk about making sure that there is certain header information on each page of the original and the copy. A. Original work refers to work that the student created without the help of others. System coordinators are asked to verify that each system winner has the proper heading. This information may be handwritten and must be on each page of the entry. Q. My students collaborated on a writing project. May I submit multiple names for system consideration? A. YGA is a writing contest for individuals. While we support collaboration in the classroom, only one student per grade level in each school system may advance to the RESA level. Please contact Diana Zarzour at [email protected] with any questions." Please make sure your child is charging their computer EVERY NIGHT. We are using them for multiple subjects each day and it must be fully charged.
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January 24th: Early Release @ 12:20 February 1st: Young Georgia Author's submissions due (more info bellow) Assessment Dates: January 28th: Because of Winn-Dixie RL.2 Check in January 28th: On Level Unit 4 Math Assessment January 28th: Accelerated Math Unit 4 Assessment Homework Reminder: Please remember to check your child's agenda daily for homework. Every 3rd grade student has math homework each night. It can be a paper assignment or assigned Iready lessons. Your child should have written it in their agenda. Please reach out to your child's math teacher with any questions regarding homework. It is New Prospect's policy for reading and math homework each night. Remember to have your child reading 15 minutes each night! After they read, great questions to ask them to support skills we are working on in class are: 1. Why might the character be this way? 2. What traits is your character showing? 3. How has your character changed throughout the book? Student Success Skill: Fairness Writing: We finished up our first Baby Lit Essay! This will be graded and feedback sent home soon. We will start a second essay next week as we refine our introductions, transitions, evidence, elaboration, and conclusions. Reading: We are nearing the end of our Because of Winn Dixie read aloud. This week we started to learn about the "story mountain" our characters travel along throughout stories. We learned that fiction stories all have a setting, plot, problems, and solutions. Book clubs have officially started and these third grade readers are loving having discussion over shared, loved books! Math: Be sure to check out each math page for more details about current units. On-Level: This week we worked on unit fractions. We partitioned shapes equally and learned that the area of one of those equal parts can be represented with a fraction. Next week we will continue our learning on graphs and finish he week with our assessment. Advanced: With Unit 1 finishing up this week we will move into Unit 2 next week! Unit 2 focuses on multi-digit multiplication and division. It will be important for students to learn, utilize, and be able to explain various strategies for problem solving within this unit. Acc Math: This week we will work on multiplying mixed numbers and review for our test on Friday. Phonics: This week we will learn about Dipthongs au, aw, augh, and al. We will have a check in on Friday! Social Studies: Next week we will start a new social studies unit: Colonial America! We will discover what was same and different about the northern, middle, and southern colonies. We will research what life was like for women, men, children, and slaves in Colonial America as well what a colonial village was like. Young Georgia Authors "Once again, it’s time for the annual Young Georgia Author’s Writing Competition sponsored by the Georgia Department of Education. The purpose of this competition is to encourage our K-12 students to develop enthusiasm for and expertise in their writing, provide a context to celebrate their writing success, and recognize student achievement in the arts and academics. All students have worked diligently to improve their writing so we want to encourage all students to participate in this amazing opportunity and showcase their writing talents across our district and throughout the state. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE Any student in grades K-5 may submit a writing piece. Each writing piece will be judged and 1 will be selected from each grade level to represent New Prospect at the district level. WHAT TO WRITE Unlike many writing competitions, the YGA does not provide a prompt to which students must respond or provide any other boundaries to their genre choice or creativity beyond a 1900-word limit. (if typed, double-spaced Times New Roman is preferred). Entries may include:
Entries + the Entry Form must be submitted to Diana Zarzour on or before February 1st. Entries will be judged the morning of Feb. 2nd and the winning piece per each grade level will be sent to the district that day. Frequently Asked Questions Q. The instructions reference the "original" work, but then they talk about making sure that there is certain header information on each page of the original and the copy. A. Original work refers to work that the student created without the help of others. System coordinators are asked to verify that each system winner has the proper heading. This information may be handwritten and must be on each page of the entry. Q. My students collaborated on a writing project. May I submit multiple names for system consideration? A. YGA is a writing contest for individuals. While we support collaboration in the classroom, only one student per grade level in each school system may advance to the RESA level. Please contact Diana Zarzour at [email protected] with any questions." Please make sure your child is charging their computer EVERY NIGHT. We are using them for multiple subjects each day and it must be fully charged. Young Georgia Authors
"Once again, it’s time for the annual Young Georgia Author’s Writing Competition sponsored by the Georgia Department of Education. The purpose of this competition is to encourage our K-12 students to develop enthusiasm for and expertise in their writing, provide a context to celebrate their writing success, and recognize student achievement in the arts and academics. All students have worked diligently to improve their writing so we want to encourage all students to participate in this amazing opportunity and showcase their writing talents across our district and throughout the state. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE Any student in grades K-5 may submit a writing piece. Each writing piece will be judged and 1 will be selected from each grade level to represent New Prospect at the district level. WHAT TO WRITE Unlike many writing competitions, the YGA does not provide a prompt to which students must respond or provide any other boundaries to their genre choice or creativity beyond a 1900-word limit. (if typed, double-spaced Times New Roman is preferred). Entries may include:
Entries + the Entry Form must be submitted to Diana Zarzour on or before February 1st. Entries will be judged the morning of Feb. 2nd and the winning piece per each grade level will be sent to the district that day. Frequently Asked Questions Q. The instructions reference the "original" work, but then they talk about making sure that there is certain header information on each page of the original and the copy. A. Original work refers to work that the student created without the help of others. System coordinators are asked to verify that each system winner has the proper heading. This information may be handwritten and must be on each page of the entry. Q. My students collaborated on a writing project. May I submit multiple names for system consideration? A. YGA is a writing contest for individuals. While we support collaboration in the classroom, only one student per grade level in each school system may advance to the RESA level. Please contact Diana Zarzour at [email protected] with any questions." Please make sure your child is charging their computer EVERY NIGHT. We are using them for multiple subjects each day and it must be fully charged. Important Dates: January 17th: MLK Jr. Holiday-NO SCHOOL January 21st: Brain Building 3rd grade January 24th: Early Release @ 12:20 February 1st: Young Georgia Author's submissions due (more info above) Assessment Dates: January 20th: Advanced Math Unit 1 Assessment January 21st: On-Level Math Quiz G.2 Unit Fractions January 21st: Accelerated Math Quiz Adding/Subtracting/Multiplying Mixed Numbers January 28th: Accelerated Math Unit 4 Assessment Homework Reminder: Please remember to check your child's agenda daily for homework. Every 3rd grade student has math homework each night. It can be a paper assignment or assigned Iready lessons. Your child should have written it in their agenda. Please reach out to your child's math teacher with any questions regarding homework. It is New Prospect's policy for reading and math homework each night. Remember to have your child reading 15 minutes each night! After they read, great questions to ask them to support skills we are working on in class are: 1. Why might the character be this way? 2. What traits is your character showing? 3. How has your character changed throughout the book? Student Success Skill: Time Management Students will understand how complex tasks can be broken down into smaller, more manageable parts. Writing: We continued working on our literary opinion writing by reading Jamaica's Blue Marker. In this unit we will be moving to a 4 paragraph essay which has an introduction, 2 body paragraphs, and conclusion. The students are learning to state their claim using character traits and show evidence to support it. We will be adding exemplar essays to the ELA page for you to see what the expectation is in 3rd grade. Reading: We are loving our read aloud! Because of Winn Dixie has everyone waiting for more. We are learning about character traits, feelings, and emotions. This week in small groups we have focused on using 3rd grade character traits to describe the characters. We have seen a lot of progress identifying these traits. Math: Be sure to check out each math page for more details about current units. On-Level: This week we learned all about shapes. We talked about the attributes of each shape. Next week we are moving to unit fractions. Students will understand that 1 piece is part of a whole. We have a check in on Friday. Advanced: This week we worked on addition and subtraction with regrouping and multi-step word problems. Study guides went home on Thursday and need to returned on the 20th. Our end of unit test will be on Thursday, January 20th. Acc Math: This week will be identifying fractions on a number line and began adding mixed numerals. Next week we are moving to subtracting and multiplying fractions. Our unit assessment will be on January 28th. Grammar: We are learning about irregular verbs. Science: This week we have learned about the different attributes of rocks. We were introduced to Moh's Hardness Scale and how to organize by hardness (1-being Talc-the softest and 10-being Diamond-the hardest). There are 3 types of soil we are exploring: clay, sand, and loam. We learned that loam is a dark brown in color and full of nutrients. Next week we will finish up our unit and start learning about Colonial America in Social Studies. Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a wonderful break. Thank you so much for working so hard why we have been remote this week. We can't wait until we can be together in our classrooms again! iReady Testing Results: We will be sending home the iReady Parent Reports in Thursday Folders on January 13th as we need to wait until the testing window has closed before we can communicate final scores. These are a mid-year check for us as a school, and us as teachers to help guide our instructional planning. You do not need to do anything with these reports, but we just want to be transparent when a student takes a test how they perform on that one indicator. This is not a grade but just a check point. Young Georgia Authors "Once again, it’s time for the annual Young Georgia Author’s Writing Competition sponsored by the Georgia Department of Education. The purpose of this competition is to encourage our K-12 students to develop enthusiasm for and expertise in their writing, provide a context to celebrate their writing success, and recognize student achievement in the arts and academics. All students have worked diligently to improve their writing so we want to encourage all students to participate in this amazing opportunity and showcase their writing talents across our district and throughout the state. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE Any student in grades K-5 may submit a writing piece. Each writing piece will be judged and 1 will be selected from each grade level to represent New Prospect at the district level. WHAT TO WRITE Unlike many writing competitions, the YGA does not provide a prompt to which students must respond or provide any other boundaries to their genre choice or creativity beyond a 1900-word limit. (if typed, double-spaced Times New Roman is preferred). Entries may include:
Entries + the Entry Form must be submitted to Diana Zarzour on or before February 1st. Entries will be judged the morning of Feb. 2nd and the winning piece per each grade level will be sent to the district that day. Frequently Asked Questions Q. The instructions reference the "original" work, but then they talk about making sure that there is certain header information on each page of the original and the copy. A. Original work refers to work that the student created without the help of others. System coordinators are asked to verify that each system winner has the proper heading. This information may be handwritten and must be on each page of the entry. Q. My students collaborated on a writing project. May I submit multiple names for system consideration? A. YGA is a writing contest for individuals. While we support collaboration in the classroom, only one student per grade level in each school system may advance to the RESA level. Please contact Diana Zarzour at [email protected] with any questions." Please make sure your child is charging their computer EVERY NIGHT. We are using them for multiple subjects each day and it must be fully charged. Important Dates: January 10th: Report Cards available in Infinite Campus January 17th: MLK Jr. Holiday-NO SCHOOL January 21st: Brain Building 3rd grade February 1st: Young Georgia Author's submissions due (more info above) Assessment Dates: January 10th: On-Level Math: MD 8 check in January 10th: Accelerated Math: NF 3 check in January 14th: Reading Quiz (character traits) January 14th: Advanced Math: NBT 4/OA3 check in January 14th: Accelerated Math :NF2 and NF3 January 20th: Advanced Math Unit 1 Assessment January 20th: Accelerated Math Unit 4 Assessment Homework Reminder: Please remember to check your child's agenda daily for homework. Every 3rd grade student has math homework each night. It can be a paper assignment or assigned Iready lessons. Your child should have written it in their agenda. Please reach out to your child's math teacher with any questions regarding homework. It is New Prospect's policy for reading and math homework each night. Remember to have your child reading 15 minutes each night! After they read, great questions to ask them to support skills we are working on in class are: 1. Why might the character be this way? 2. What traits is your character showing? 3. How has your character changed throughout the book? Student Success Skill: Students will learn that words have consequences and choose kind words. Writing: We began our literary opinion writing by reading Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats. In this unit we will be moving to a 4 paragraph essay which has an introduction, 2 body paragraphs, and conclusion. The students are learning to state their claim using character traits and show evidence to support it. We will be adding exemplar essays to the ELA page for you to see what the expectation is in 3rd grade. Reading: 3rd grade is headed back to a fiction unit focusing on character studies. Our read aloud now is Because of Winn-Dixie where we have been introduced to Opal and her dog, Winn-Dixie. We are discussion her traits, relationships, and watch her change through out the book. Please read the reading homework questions above to help your child navigate through their nightly reading homework. Math: Be sure to check out each math page for more details about current units. On-Level: We introduced perimeter (measuring the outside of a shape) this week. This is a difficult concept sometimes as it is easy to confuse with area (measuring the inside of the shape). We will check in on Monday and continue to work on as we introduce more shapes. Advanced: This week we introduced the standard algorithm with addition and subtraction up to the ten thousands. Next week we will be solving multi-step word problems using ALL four operations. We will have a check in on Friday. Our end of unit test will be on Thursday, January 20th. Acc Math: This week we worked on decomposing fractions. Next week will be identifying fractions on a number line and begin adding mixed numerals. We will have a check in on Monday for decomposing fractions and Friday for fractions on a number line and mixed numerals. Phonics: We will be working with suffixes: tion, ion, ture this week. Science: This week we start our unit on rocks and soils. This is always a favorite in 3rd grade. The students were sent on a rock hunt and must bring in their bags of rocks when we return to school as we will be working with them in class. |