Tag: Reading

Writing

3rd grade standards: 
3.W.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. 
3.W.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

This week, students received a copy of the WPA they wrote last week and a couple of mini lessons on revising. Revising lessons will continue though Friday as students revise pieces of their choice, discuss their writing with a partner, and have the opportunity to publish and/or share by reading out loud to the class. 

Through Unit 1, your children have been practicing the following:
“Students learn about the use of a writer’s notebook and fill it with several entries and begin to envision what writing will be like this year and what they are capable of in a “can-do way”.
     • Students develop a seed idea and experiment with different ways of telling the same story.
     • Students write with more independence and are encouraged to go through the writing              process multiple times to increase fluency. “

We begin Unit 2, nonfiction reading and writing, next week.

Still true: Students may still decorate their notebooks! Please allow them to bring printouts, stickers, or photos to glue onto their notebooks. I will cover the notebooks with clear tape so the pictures stay on. 

Math

CCSS Standards:
3.OA.D Solve problems using the four operations
3. NBT.A Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic; use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.
SMP 6: Students will attend to precision when using greater than and less than symbols to record their thinking.

Finishing Module 3: 
Topics include: “Place Value up to 10,000 by adding or subtracting 10 or 100 from any three or 4 digit number, using rounding and mental math and main strategies.”

Students will work on comparing 3 and 4 digit numbers and rounding 3 and 4 digit numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

Reading

CCSS Standards
3.RF.4 4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. 
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition.

We are enjoying differentiated reading time, with students either working with the teacher in Istation or reading self chosen books and recording reading in logs.

Students work with Reading buddies to retell their stories and begin to interview someone about what they are reading.

Spelling/Vocabulary

Reading Standards
3.RF.3b Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words both in isolation and in text. 
b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. (Identify which letters represent the five major vowels [Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, and Uu] and know the long and short sound of each vowel. 

Students took the Elementary Spelling Inventory (ESY) as a baseline to gauge the efficacy of spelling instruction and identify areas of focus for individuals and small groups. We are finishing the Short Oo series this week. 

Social Emotional Learning
Focus on: What is Bullying?, how to be an Upstander, how be a “free fish”.

• “What is Bullying?” Video
• Simon’s Hook-A Story About Teases and Put Downs by Karen Gedig Burnett – Video
• “Be an Upstander” – Video

Student leaders in our class have created a Feelings Club for students to privately share and get support for interpersonal issues from a peer; another student leader has prepared a support they will share with the class on Thursday. 

Specials

• Earthquake and Fire Drill Combo!
  • Thursday 10/17 at 10:17 AM.
  • Our class is great at this. It will be a piece of cake!
• Art Vistas!
  • Rescheduled for this Friday afternoon, our class will experience their favorite on site special: Art Vistas! Your children love this, and they love having their families in the classroom. I am so grateful for the class parents who are willing and able to do this for our class this year. Watch for photos of the action!

Fall Festival:
We hope to see you at Reed’s Fall Festival on Saturday, October 19th from 1-5 PM! Find more information in the flyer below. 

Thank you for your attention. As always, please reach out with any suggestions, oversights on my part, or questions at sseyan@sjusd.org, right here at ParentSquare, call (408) 535-6287 x. 37143–or just stop by after school! 

Warmly,
Ms. Seyan :o)

Writing

CCSS Anchor Standards: 

1. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
2. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

This week, we will take the Narrative Writing Progress Assessment (WPA) on Thursday morning. This will give students an opportunity to show what they have learned and been practicing in Writing Workshop: Writing about personal small moments, including dialogue and description in their writing, writing on the same topic over several sessions, and editing and revising our work. To prepare, students will have mini lessons in paragraphing and using a writing checklist, in addition to having time to revisit and rework writing from our notebooks and folders.

By the way: Students may still decorate their notebooks! Please allow them to bring printouts, stickers, or photos to glue onto their notebooks. I will cover the notebooks with clear tape so the pictures stay on. 

Math

CCSS Standards:

3.OA.1  Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 × 7.

3. NBT.1 Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic; use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

Module 3:
-Strategies for multiplication facts when one of the factors is 2 or 4, practice with multiplying 5s, 10s, 2s, and 4s in a variety of ways. 
-Place Value up to 10,000 by adding or subtracting 10 or 100 from any three or 4 digit number, using rounding and mental math and main strategies. 

Students are encouraged to talk through multiplication rather than seeing the lessons as rules to follow. They may also have difficulty conceptualizing numbers as large as 10,000. We will focus on counting by place value column to support with this.

Reading

CCSS Standards

3.RF.4 4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. 
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition.

This week in reading we will stake the October ISIP on Monday and Tuesday.  During reading Workshop, we will have mini lessons in the importance of reading, share our reading plans, share book recommendations, and get new reading buddies.

If you would like extra reading logs to use with your child at home, let me know!

Spelling/Vocabulary

3.RF.3b Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words both in isolation and in text. 
b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. (Identify which letters represent the five major vowels [Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, and Uu] and know the long and short sound of each vowel. 

We are continuing with the Short Oo series this week. 

Social Emotional Learning

• Reed ROCKS Review and Anti-Hate unit review
  • Each day we will focus on a different letter of the Reed ROCKS matrix: Responsible, Organized, Considerate, Kind, and Safe.
  • We will reteach and practice classroom routines.
  • We will also revisit the Anti-Hate/Anti-Bullying unit with new activities and get more student input on how we can be a safe, supportive classroom for each other!

Specials

• Art Vistas!
  • On Friday afternoon, our class will experience their favorite on site special: Art Vistas! Your children love this, and they love having their families in the classroom. I am so grateful for the class parents who are willing and able to do this for our class this year. Watch for photos of the action!!
• College Week!
  • On Friday morning,  our class will attend talks by guest speakers on various career pathways and education options. Total time spent listening will be approximately. 2-3 hours.
  • If you would like to visit our class to share your experience in school, training, college, or work, please let me know! Your children would love this. ❤

Thank you for your attention! As always, please reach out with any suggestions, oversights on my part, or questions at sseyan@sjusd.org, right here at ParentSquare, call (408) 535-6287 x. 37143–or just stop by after school! 

Warmly,
Ms. Seyan :o)