Week 4

Language Arts
Reading is Thinking

We will learn to apply our background knowledge (schema) as we read by making connections between what we already know and new information.

We will also learn how to pull out the most important information from our reading and put it in our own words in order to remember it (summary).

Writing

The power of VERBS!!

We will explore "Word Choice" (the "just right" words we choose in our writing to make the message clear).


Social Studies

We will learn about the heroes that helped shaped our community, state, and nation.

Math/Science

Math

We are learning how to round numbers in both the tens and the hundreds place.  We will start out with simple 2 and 3 digit numbers and work our way up while keeping the rounding to these 2 places only.  We are calling numbers "friendly", because they are easy to add or subtract in our minds.  We are encouraging mental math skills (i.e. 1,487 + 1,342 = 1,500 + 1,300 = 1,800).


Science

We are learning how some object can float and others sink.  Third grade doesn't go into buoyancy and density, but we do talk about how the object with less matter than water will float and adding mass or pressure to it will cause it to sink.

We will also talk about magnetism and temperature.  Temperature includes weather, but also the temperature of liquids using thermometers.  You can talk to your student about which objects are magnetic or not magnetic.