What's Happening in Room 321 Mrs. L.H.'s Class
Learning for the Future: Everyone, Every Way, Every Day
February 22-26 , 2010
Reading-
Key Strategy: Making Inferences
This week, our Literacy Place story The Case of the Runaway Elephant provides many opportunitis for students to make inferences from story clues, picture clues, ad prior knowledge. Throughout the text, the author gives clues that the reader has to piece together to figure othe the solution to the mystery.
In reading groups, we are using graphic organizers to aid our reading comprehension as we focus on fluency, summarizing, predicting and inferring.
( ELA standards: Accuracy and Fluency 3E1a.4: Read aloud independently from guided reading level P books that they have
previewed silently on their own, using intonation, pauses and emphasis that
signal the meaning of the text.)
Reading Groups:
Skippy Jon Jones
The Thief Lord
Holes
Robert and the Embarrassing Secret
(3E1c: Comprehension and Analysis of Literary Text
Students read and respond to a wide variety of significant works of
children’s literature. At Grade 3, students read a wide variety of fiction,
such as classic and contemporary literature, historical fiction, fantasy,
science fiction, folklore, mythology, poetry, songs, plays, and other
genres.)
Grammar
Our grammar focus this week is adverbs. Our mechanics focus is the apostrophe in possessives.
(3E2c: English Language Conventions
Students write using Standard English conventions appropriate to the
3rd grade level.)
Writing
Big Six Trait: The focus trait this week is Idea Development, with a secondary focus on word choice. We continue to work on taking our stories of adventures with imaginary friends through the writing process to publication.
Spelling
Words with -r- controlled vowels--See list to lower right.
(3E2c.8: Spell correctly one-syllable words that have blends (such as walk, play,
blend), contractions (such as isn’t, can’t), compounds, common spelling
patterns (such as qu-; changing win to winning; changing the ending of the
word from –y to –ies to make a plural, such as cherry/cherries), and common
homophones (words that sound the same but have different spelling, such
as hair/hare).
Math
Multiplication! We have learned the zero property and the identity property of multiplication this week to go along with the commutative property we learned earlier. Everyone understands the concept of multiplication as repeated addition. We have also represented equations in arrays and as equal groups. Now it's time for the dirty work of memorizing the facts!
(3.M.1h:explain and solve problems involving the multiplication of two whole numbers where factors are 99 or less.)
Example: Multiply 36 times 52. Explain your method.
Science
We are learning about the animal kingdom and life cycles of its members.
Students have each selected an animal of interest on which to write a report.
S6b: gains an understanding that the details in the life cycles of organisms
are different for different types of organisms.
S6d3. describe how growth, death, and decay are integral aspects of living
systems by providing evidence from readings and observations.
Homework:
Read Literacy Place story for twenty minutes three nights each week.
Read and complete the Home/School Connection one night (due on Fridays)
Complete 100 points worth of activities from the weekly Spelling Contract.
Math as assigned in planner.
Read your assigned pages for reading group.
Our Continuous School Improvement Goals:
All students will improve reading comprehension across the curriculum.
All students will improve written communication across the curriculum.
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