Good Morning Third Grade Families,
I hope you're surviving this at home time and staying safe. I miss seeing the kids everyday and I'm looking forward to the day we can go back to school. Below is a brief overview of what you can expect this week. The plans can be found under the Home Learning tab on the Third Grade Website.
Reading: Students need to distinguish between first and third person point of view. In addition, they need to recognize the difference between third person omniscient point of view and third person limited point of view. On the learning plan for the week, there is a link to a slide show (Thursday/Reading). You may want to sit down and do this with your child. Similarly, your child needs to know that different characters can have different perspectives about the same event. This is shown clearly in the book, Voices in the Park. Have your child think about the perspectives of each character in the book, and how their background may influence their perspective about their walk in the park.
Writing: Students should publish their Rock Tells Story using PowerPoint this week. Ideally, I'd love for the students to record themselves reading their story on PowerPoint so we can publish them to Kidblog. If the recording is too much of a challenge, just the PowerPoint will be fine.
Math: Unit 6 focuses a lot on division strategies. Have your child work on Khan Academy and Freckle. One of the first lessons in the unit teaches students that remainders can mean many things. Sometimes remainders should be represented as a fraction, other times as a decimal or whole left-overs. I'm posting an Educreations assignment this week in which students create a number story to represent each type of remainder.
Science: This week, students will share their dioramas virtually and work on a virtual science lesson. Next week, we'll begin our next social studies unit.
A reminder for anyone that needs it: This is new for all of us! You're doing a great job working through the kinks of this new (temporary) reality. Homeschooling doesn't mean your child has to work on academics for 7 hours of the day. Dedicate 2-3 hours a day to academic/school work if possible- do what works best for your family. 💜💜
