Our Just Write celebration is next week. Our 3rd grade celebration will be Tuesday, May 15 at 2:45. Please join us to celebrate all the wonderful writing our third graders have accomplished this year!

The last Reading Counts ends this Friday, May 11.

Math: We completed our last benchmark assessment. This helps to know the areas that were not remembered, retained, and mastered from this year. We will be working in small groups to work on those math concepts. We will be moving into measurement next.
***Please continue to practice multiplication and division problems (even through the summer!) with your third grader. This is very crucial as the students move into fourth grade. ***

Writing: We have completed our last on-demand personal narrative writing. The goal for this piece of writing is to make it the best and it gives a chance for the students to show the writing strategies they have learned and how to use them. We have also been working on comparison essays.

Reading: We are working on another reading strategy of determining importance. We are currently looking at Fables and how we gather information from the story and determine the important lesson the author wants the reader to know.

Social Studies/Science: In social studies we are currently learning about public issues of Michigan and have learned about the issue of wind farms being built in the Great Lakes. We are learning what it means to agree or disagree and then have reasons to support. In science we are studying force and motion and simple machines. We have done a few activities to help us learn about motion and how speed and distance is effected by height of a ramp. Ask your third grader about our science activities.