Mrs. Lape's

Third Grade News 
4th Nine Weeks
March 2012

Happy 1st week of spring!
I can't believe this school year is almost over.  We only have 15 more school days until the CRCT! 

Please take a moment to go over the information below, as it will help your child to continue to be successful the rest of this school year.

*Continue practicing multiplication and division facts. It is imperative that they know their facts with fluency, as we will be multiplying and dividing 2 and 3 digits by one digit. Also, review elapsed time and counting back change at home as often as possible. 

*Make sure to go over the CRCT Coach books with your child.  They're a great resource to practice the skills learned this school year.  The questions are very similar to what they will see on the CRCT.

*Starting the week of March 26th students will once again be required to log their daily reading in their agenda.  Students must write down the title and the page numbers read. 

*Please continue to encourage student to use the IXL website daily. 

Important Dates:
March 
21               Report Cards
22               Hat Day (Students can wear a hat if they donate $1 to Relay for Life)
27               Author Visit (Order forms were sent home Friday 3/16)
April
2-6              Spring Break
13                Walk to School Day
18-25          CRCT Test
May
1                  Wellstar-Bike Safety 
3                  PTA Meeting
8-9              Rocket Reader Breakfast
18               CRCT Retest
23-24        Early Release Days
24               Last Day of School             
Math- 

Standards and Elements:

• M3A1.a: Describe and extend numeric and geometric patterns.
• M3A1.b: Describe and explain a quantitative relationship represented by a formula (such as the perimeter of a geometric figure).
• M3A1.c: Use a symbol, such as a □ and ∆ to represent an unknown and find the value of the unknown in a number sentence.
• M3N3.c: Use arrays and area models to develop understanding of the distributive property and to determine partial products for multiplication of 2- or 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number.
• M3N3.d: Understand the effect on the product when multiplying by multiples of 10.
• M3N3.e: Apply the identity, commutative, and associative properties of multiplication and verify the results.
• M3N3.f: Use mental math and estimation strategies to multiply.
• M3N3.g: Solve problems requiring multiplication.
• M3N4.a: Understand the relationship between division and multiplication and between division and subtraction.
• M3N4.b: Recognize that division may be two situations: the first is determining how many equal parts of a given size or amount may be taken away from the whole as in repeated subtraction, and the second is determining the size of the parts when the whole is separated into a given number of equal parts as in a sharing model.
• M3N4.c: Recognize problem-solving situations in which division may be applied and write corresponding mathematical expressions.
• M3N4.d: Explain the meaning of a remainder in division in different circumstances.
• M3N4.e: Divide a 2- and 3-digit number by a 1-digit divisor.
• M3N4.f: Solve problems requiring division.
• M3N4.g: Use mental math strategies to divide.

Reading- 

• ELA3R1.a Fluency: Applies letter-sound knowledge to decode unknown words quickly and accurately.
• ELA3R1.b Fluency: Reads familiar text with expression.
• ELA3R1.c Fluency: Reads third-grade text at a target rate of 120 words correct per minute. (Grade level vocabulary and sight vocabulary with automaticity)
• ELA3R1.d Fluency: Uses self-correction when subsequent reading indicates an earlier misreading within grade level texts.
• ELA3R2.a Vocabulary: Reads literary and informational texts and incorporates new words into oral and written language.
• ELA3R2.b Vocabulary: Uses grade-appropriate words with multiple meanings.
• ELA3R2.c Vocabulary: Recognizes and applies the appropriate usage of homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms.
• ELA3R2.d Vocabulary: Identifies the meaning of common idioms and figurative phrases, and incorporates them into oral and written language.
• ELA3R2.e Vocabulary: Identifies and infers meaning from common root words, common prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, dis-,in-,) and common suffixes (e.g., -tion, -ous, -ly).
• ELA3R2.f Vocabulary: Determines the meaning of unknown words on the basis of context.
• ELA3R3.a Comprehension: Reads a variety of texts for information and pleasure.
• ELA3R3.b Comprehension: Makes predictions from text content.
• ELA3R3.c Comprehension: Generates questions to improve comprehension.
• ELA3R3.d Comprehension: Distinguishes fact from opinion.
• ELA3R3.f Comprehension: Makes judgements and inferences about setting, characters, and events and supports them with evidence from the text.
• ELA3R3.g Comprehension: Summarizes text content.
• ELA3R3.h Comprehension: Interprets information from illustrations, diagrams, charts, graphs, and graphic organizers.
• ELA3R3.i Comprehension: Makes connections between texts and/or personal experiences and recognizes cultural diversity in literature.
• ELA3R3.j Comprehension: Identifies and infers main idea and supporting details in appropriate sequence.
• ELA3R3.k Comprehension: Self-monitors comprehension to clarify meaning.
• ELA3R3.l Comprehension: Identifies and infers cause-and-effect relationships and draws conclusions.
• ELA3R3.m Comprehension: Recalls explicit facts and infers implicit facts (e.g., respond to literal, inferential,and evaluative questions about the text).
• ELA3R3.n Comprehension: Identifies and discusses the basic elements of a variety of genres (fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry).
• ELA3R3.o Comprehension: Uses titles, table of contents, and chapter headings to locate information quickly and accurately and to preview text.
• ELA3R3.r Comprehension: Applies dictionary, thesaurus, and glossary skills to determine word meanings.

Writing-  Persuasive

• ELA3C1.a Conventions: Correctly identifies and uses subject/verb agreement and adjectives.
• ELA3C1.c Conventions: Identifies and uses contractions correctly.
• ELA3C1.d Conventions: Identifies and uses personal and possessive pronouns.
• ELA3C1.e Conventions: Speaks and writes in complete and coherent sentences.
• ELA3C1.g Conventions: Distinguishes between complete and incomplete sentences.
• ELA3C1.l Conventions: Uses common rules of spelling including grade level appropriate sight words/priority words and corrects words using dictionaries and other resources.
• ELA3C1.m Conventions: Uses appropriate capitalization and punctuation (end marks, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks).
• ELA3C1.n Conventions: Writes legibly in cursive, leaving space between letters in a word and between words in a sentence.
• ELA3W1 Writing Process
• ELA3W1.j Writing Process: Uses a variety of resources to research and share information on a topic.
• ELA3W2 Informational
• ELA3W2a Informational: Captures a reader's interest by setting a purpose and developing a point of view.
• ELA3W2b Informational: Sustains a focused topic.
• ELA3W2c Informational: Includes the appropriate purpose, expectations, and length for the audience and the genre.
• ELA3W2d Informational: Includes relevant examples, facts, anecdotes, and details.
• ELA3W2e Informational: Uses organizational structures for conveying information (chronological order, cause and effect, similarities and differences, questions and answers).
• ELA3W2g Informational: Provides a sense of closure.

Social Studies- Lyndon B. Johnson, Thurgood Marshall, Cesar Chavez
Standards and Elements:

• SS3G2.c: Describe how each of these historic figures adapted to and was influenced by his/her environment.
• SS3G2.e: Describe how the region in which these historic figures lived affected their lives and had an impact on their cultural identification.
• SS3H2.b: Explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them.

Science- 

Standards and Elements:

· S3P1a Production of Heat Energy: Categorize ways to produce heat energy such as burning, rubbing (friction), and mixing one thing with another.

· S3P1c Transfer of Sun's Heat: Investigate the transfer of heat energy from the sun to various materials

· S3P2b Magnets Attract and Repel Each Other: Investigate how magnets attract and repel each other.

·Conservation and Recycling

 

Health-

Standardsand Elements:

·        H31m (Personal Safety): The learner will be able to identify threats to personal safety (e.g. child abuse, physical abuse, neglect and emotional abuse).

·        H35a: The learner will use the decision-making process when making health-related choices.