Prairie Post

Ask Your Child About:

• What are some ways you could ask a friend to join in play?

• What number comes just after (1-10)

• Beginning sounds of household objects

We’re Learning About:

• Math: What number comes just after?

• Literacy: Adding detail to drawing, labeling using beginning sounds and letter formation

• Writing: Review/ Fine motor rotations

• SEL: Friendship/ joining play

Updates & Reminders:

• End of the Year Donations Sign-up

Lorenz Ehret

• Spring Into Summer 4K Event: Thursday, April 24th 6-7 p.m.

• Save the Date--Green Meadows Farm Field Trip June 4th (unlimited chaperones and more info to follow)

Pictures From the Week:

• Lorenz Facebook Link

• Ehret Facebook Link

Ask Your Child About:

• Their narrative writing piece! Who are the characters? Where does the story take place?

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We’re Learning About:

• Math: We learned how to add within 10. Students used a variety of tools, manipulatives and number partners in order to solve addition problems. Students practiced writing and identifying an equation.

• Reading: This week we read the text “People We Celebrate.” Learners practiced making connections and summarizing to help us better understand what we are reading. We used text evidence to make connections between two people. We also learned the letter Ll and it’s sound.

• Writing: Writers started the Narrative writing process. We learned that a narrative can be a made up story, or it can be based on something that happened in real life. Students started with brainstorming different ideas, making a plan for their story and now are beginning to draft their beginning, middle and end. We also continued to practice writing complete sentences with capitalization and end punctuation.

• Social Studies & Science: We learned about the difference between a globe and map. We talked about different signs and symbols we see around our neighborhood and how they help us get around.

Updates & Reminders:

• If you are interested in chaperoning for our field trip to Betty Brinn on Monday May 5th, please fill out this form!

Ask Your Child About:

• What 3 geographical places are you going to study about for your Social Studies postcards?

• What is a contraction? What is the job of the apostrophe when writing a contraction?

• What are the contractions for: can not, I will, you have, they are

• What 2 words make up the contractions; doesn’t, I’m, we’re **bonus: won’t

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We’re Learning About:

• Math:This week the students completed the mid-unit assessment. They also continued learning more about adding and subtracting 1 and 2-step story problems that involve length.

• Reading: We read an informational text about “Primary Sources”. Students annotated their thinking about the main topic and focus of each section. They used text features to help them understand more about the text.

• Writing: After completing a graphic organizer to help plan out their nonfiction narrative letter, students began writing their first draft of the letter. Students also practiced reading and writing contractions.

• Social Studies & Science: We started to learn about geography and how to use maps.

Updates & Reminders:

• No school Friday, April 18th and Monday April 20th

Ask Your Child About:

• Round 523 to the nearest 10 and 100.

• What is the area of a rectangle with the length of 3 and width of 9? What would the perimeter be?

• Solve: 234+981, 743-521, 414-203, 9x6, 24/6

• What fraction would be equivalent to ⅔?

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• 3rd Grade Facebook Site

• 3rd Grade Google Picture Folder

We’re Learning About:

• Math: We took this week to do a review of math topics covered thus far in third grade for preparation of the math portion of the FORWARD test, which will begin next week. If you are looking for something to do this weekend, please check your child’s folder for additional math practice!

• Reading:

• Writing: Students are continuing to work on writing their historical fiction piece. This week we focused on brainstorming events for our stories and “bringing them to life” by including more details so that our reader also feels as though they are part of the historical event.

• Social Studies & Science:

Updates & Reminders:

• Saturday, April 12: Waukesha school-wide swim meet

• FORWARD TESTING (part 2) WILL TAKE PLACE THE WEEK OF APRIL 14 (MATH). Please make every effort to have your child present and on time! Thank you for ensuring your child has headphones for the tests.

Ask Your Child About:

• What is an acute, obtuse, and right angle? Can you find examples of each?

• How does something become fossilized?

• How did Chinese immigrants help shape the United States?

• What information and perspectives did you gain about the transcontinental railroad from our reading this week?

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We’re Learning About:

• Math: This week, we learned about angles including how to measure and draw angles.

• Reading: This week we used context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary words, analyzed sequence and comparison structures in text, inferred main ideas and determined how graphic features add to meaning in “The Chinese Railroad Workers.”

• Phonics: Students will focus on homophones. In the link attached you will find a quick guide to help identify this week's spelling patterns. Feel free to use the list of words (word bank) as a way to help students practice the different spelling patterns!

• Writing: Students began drafting their historical fiction pieces, making their plans come to life. Students focused on establishing a situation and introducing their characters, using description to develop characters and story events, use dialogue, and provide a sense of closure to their story.

• Science: We finished up our learning on weathering and erosion this week and learned the process of something becoming a fossil.

Updates & Reminders:

• FORWARD EXAM- We have our last two assessments on April 15th and 16th.

• Connell- In Lesson 5, students learned about healthy and unhealthy friendship qualities. They practiced how to show positive qualities to others as well as how to form and maintain positive relationships. They also practiced spotting unhealthy qualities in friends. Handout

• Haynes- In Lesson 6, students learned all about peer pressure and how to resist negative peer pressure. Students were able to role play and identify strategies they can use in different situations. Handout