Room 303 News: 4/17/2019

Weekly Updates and Reminders:

•  Please sign up at the link below if you would like to volunteer to provide snacks and/or drinks for our M-STEP testing dates.
  
  
  

  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a48aba92fa6f94-mstep3
  The students will be taking the M-STEP on the following dates:
  Tuesday, April 30:  ELA Test (Reading/Writing)
  Wednesday, May 1:  ELA Test (Reading/Writing)
  Thursday, May 2: ELA Test (if needed- makeup day)
  Tuesday, May 7:  Math Test
  Wednesday, May 8:  Math Test
   
• Spring Picture Day is this Thursday, April 18.
• The students have been given M-STEP homework.  Please assist your child in this homework throughout the week.  Homework #2 is due on Monday, April 22. 
• We will be going to Greenfield Village on Monday, May 20.  Parents are welcome to come along and chaperone, but you will need to drive separately. Cost for chaperones is $10.  Please return the field trip forms and money as soon as possible.
• Wixom Field Day will be on Friday, May 24.  It is also a half-day of school that day.  
• Mark your calendars for Third Grade Pioneer Day!  It is on Thursday, May 30.  This will be a very fun day.  Below you will see a tentative schedule of the events for the day.  We will also be sending out a sign-up genius with some needed materials and food for the day. 
  
   

MATH

 We just began Unit 7 which will cover a variety of skills including fractions!  

SOCIAL STUDIES
Students are learning about how entrepreneurs combine natural, human and capital resources to produce goods and services in Michigan. Students also learned how incentives influence economic decisions people make in Michigan.  

 SCIENCE:

 Our last science kit arrived!  It is all about Structures of Life!  This unit will consist of four investigations dealing with big ideas in life science.  

 Word Study/Grammar:

This week for grammar we are on Week Twenty-six.  The students are learning all about base words and endings (-ed and -ing) and Contractions.

Writing:   

The students have finished their Opinion Writing and we have now moved on to Persuasive Writing.  We have talked about the difference between just stating your opinion about something and trying to persuade (or convince) someone to agree with you.  The students have chosen an issue or something they would like to see changed and are writing letters trying to persuade their audience to agree with them.

Reading:

In reading, we have been continuing to focus on Informational Text.  The students have been reading a variety of different non-fiction texts and noticing how the different text features add to our understanding.  They are also learning how to find the main idea of a text and the details.  We have also been looking for different text structures within texts and examined how they help us to better understand the topic as well.