Base
1. slip
2. fish
3. pick
4. rocks
5. lunch
6. gift
7. thing
8. inch
9. truck
10.pond
11.from
12.jump
13.socks
14.dish
15.thump
Alternate
1. otter
2. addition
3. supper
4. rotten
5. skin
6. quick
7. skilled
8. stock
9. knot
10. gotten
11. copper
12. closet
13. understand
14. interested
15. arithmetic
In reading, we will be working on stopping and thinking when we read. Good readers are able to tell their thinking and give evidence for there thinking. In addition, I will also be challenging your child to use his/her reading time more wisely and read the whole time. Ask your child if he/she finds a good spot to read and puts all his/her efforts into reading. Also, I do not track students nightly reading but please support the 20 minutes of reading at night. It is critical that your child read in and out of school. Good readers read and weak readers do not. Please look over the chart in the website that gives stunning proof that reading at home does make the difference:
http://www.bpd3.org/km/readingnight.pdf
Remember tomorrow is the habitat and food chain quiz on key vocabulary. We have been working hard at learning these words in the context of our science unit. This week, we will be working in cooperate groups to become an expert on one habitat. I am excited to see what new concepts and facts the students learn.
In 3A Math, we are focusing on understanding place and rounding of numbers to the nearest ten. In class, we will be using base ten blocks to learn about expanded notation and review the order of places. We started our math class today with a short video that clearly illustrates our place value system. Please have your child watch this video again at home to revisit today's concepts.
http://mathstory.com/youtubevids/placevalonetenhund.aspx#.UGh5GJj_B0g
It is critical that you child have a understanding of how numbers work so that they can apply strategies to multi - digit adding and subtracting. Below are resources that will help build your child's place value understanding:
3A Place Value and Rounding Resources:
http://www.learningbox.com/Base10/BaseTen.html
- uses base ten blocks
http://www.hbschool.com/activity/numbers_to_1000/ - base ten blocks with places
More challenging Expanded Notation
Rouding
