Week 18

Third grade is on a roll and doing great this week! Miss Pouliot and I are proud of their accomplishments!

We have started a new unit in Science and are excited to be studying how habitats have changed over time. This week our focus was on looking at skulls and jaws of animals to figure out what type of food they ate.

In math we are building multiplication fluency and learning how to work on two-step word problems. Miss Pouliot is teaching math now with me in the room and she is doing a fantastic job! This Thursday was our first fluency quiz. This was to see how quickly your child could recall multiplication facts. We will do this every Thursday and your child will track their progress. I look forward to seeing improvements each week!

In writing we have started a new unit and third graders are learning about informational writing. We will not be researching too much, yet. We will focus on the structure and organizational aspect of how to get our thoughts organized. Our focus for this writing unit will be to teach someone about something we know a lot about already. The topics they’ve picked are awesome!

We are moving on to the Southeast Region of the United States in Social Studies. We will be learning about 2 states per week and will finish with another round of studying states/capitals in about 6 weeks.

Next week we have NWEA testing Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 8:30. Please have your child get a good night’s sleep and eat a good breakfast!

Please remember... studying multiplication facts is now mandatory. Learning these facts will be crucial as we are moving into fractions next. As your child shows me they can master 1-5 and 10 they will move on to 6’s, 7’s, 8’s and 9’s.

I hope you have a great weekend! Stay warm!

~Mrs. Haulk

This week in reading our focus was nonfiction text features! Here's just a sampling of the books we look at...