Welcome to Mrs. Shelley’s third grade!
Communication is key! We are all here for the same reason, and that is to make sure our children receive the best education they can. This means you and I must be a team. Learning does not only take place in the classroom, and it is very important that we communicate to make sure the needs of our children are met in and out of the classroom.
Reminder: Check OptionC as often as possible so that you are in the loop with your child’s grades.
A few ways to contact me:
– Email:PShelley@scgstl.org
-Class Dojo app accessed through cell phone or computer
-Class Folder: This folder goes home and comes back everyday. You must check this folder daily! Please send tuition or other money in an envelope with your child’s name and what it is for.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation. I am confident that we will have a great year!
This week in third grade Jan 14 – 17
*IMPORTANT REMINDERS*
**Thursday January 17 – Half Day**
** Friday January 18 School closed- teacher PD**
*Bring two highlighters and a pack of index cards
Students are no longer allowed to use mechanical pencils in class
ELA – Unit III People and Nature
Essential Question: How are people and nature connected?
Story Selection: Around One Cactus
Guided Question: What can we observe in different environments?
Text based comprehension: Cause & effect, predict & set purpose for reading
CCSS Informational text 3, 8
Fluency – read with expression CCSS Foundational skill 4.b
Writing and conventions- writing a compare & contrast composition,
irregular verbs CCSS Language 1.a, 1.d, 3.a Writing 2, 2.a, 2.b
Phonics & Spelling- consonant patterns wr, kn, gn, st, mb
CCSS Foundational skills 3.d, Language 2.f
Vocabulary Around One Cactus
- origin the point or place where something begins
- appreciate to think highly of or be thankful for something
- relationship connection between things or people
- birch a slender, fast growing tree that has thin bark
- centipede a flat worm like insect with many legs
- dew tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night
- behold to see or observe
- cedar an evergreen tree with widely spreading branches
- border a side, edge, or boundary of something
- preserve keep safe from harm, protect
Spelling
- thumb 11. knot
- gnaw 12. wrinkle
- written 13. lamb
- know 14. knob
- climb 15. knit
- design 16. wrestler
- wrist 17. bologna
- crumb 18. cologne
- assign 19. honeycomb
- wrench 20. knickknack
Math – Topic 8 use strategies and properties to add and subtract
Essential question: How can sums and differences be estimated and found mentally?
Students will be able to:
- find addition properties
- find addition patterns
- round whole numbers
CCSS 3.NBT.A use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi digit arithmetic
3.OA.D.9 identify arithmetic patterns and explain them using properties of operations
*Religion Chapter 9 The Church teaches us
Overview and chapter story
Students will understand that:
- the Church is the Body of Christ and the people of God
- we profess our faith through the Apostles Creed
- the Holy Spirit guides the Church
- the Church continues to teach the message of Jesus
*Social Studies Test on Tuesday Jan. 15
Objective:How people moved around and built new communities.
Social Studies Vocabulary
- century one hundred years
- frontier the far edge of a country where
people are just beginning to settle
- pioneer the first of a group of people to
settle in an area
- transcontinental something that stretches
across the continent
- immigrant a person who comes to live in
another country
- database a computer program that holds
lots of similar information
- migration moving from one part of the
country to another
- Great Migration the journey of thousands of
African Americans from the south
to the north in the early 1900’s
- Civil War the war between the northern and
southern states that lasted from
1861 to 1865
Science Unit B Life Science
Objective: How do plants and animals interact?
Chapter 2 Living things depend on one another
Students will understand how:
- living things get food
- plants and animals interact with the environment
- living things get energy
- energy moves through a food chain
Science vocabulary words
1. interact when plants and animals affect one another or
the environment to meet their needs
2. producer an animal that hunts another animal for food
3. consumer a living thing that eats other living things as
food
4. herbivore an animal that eats plants
5. carnivore an animal that eats other animals
6. omnivore an animal that eats both plants and other
animals
7. decomposer a living thing that breaks down dead animals
for food
8. food chain the path of food from one living thing to
another
9. energy pyramid a diagram that shows that the amount of
usable energy in an ecosystem is less for
each higher animal in the food chain
10. predator an animal that hunts another animal for food
11. prey an animal that is hunted by a predator