News for the Week Ending 10/16
New Social Studies Links for Students
Updated photos for Social Studies: Maps and Halloween Fun Fair
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Dear Families of 3-Fitzgerald, Our class is working hard in our Halloween Fun Fair committees. The Games Committee has been busy planning and gathering materials for their creations. The Education Committee has worked together to write a script for their newscast that will be a part of the Fun Fair Educational DVD. The Promotions Committee has worked to create a catchy phrase and design advertisements to be placed around the school. Ask your child to share what his/her role is during the committee work times. We are in need of small toys or prizes to be sent in to use the day of the Fun Fair. In the interest of donating money to UNICEF, recycling small toys such as McDonald's Happy Meal toys, or something similar would work just fine. In addition to the toys, you could also choose to send in candy for the Fair. Any items can be brought into school by your child and I will store them until the Fair. Thank you for your support in helping our Halloween Fun Fair be a success! |
Our beginning of the year reading assessments are wrapping up this week. Students have been practicing the idea that "Reading is thinking" by looking for connections to their books. Ask your child about what they are reading. What connections are they making? Is something they're reading about reminding them of something they've read somewhere else? Something they're seen? Or even something they've experienced before? We have had a valuable lesson in the planning stages of writing as we have written plans and rules for our Halloween games. Groups had the opportunity to run their game idea and rules by the class. The children offered insightful feedback. Groups will now be revising the ideas and directions before heading on to the construction stage of their games. We are so fortunate to have such a meaningful, hands-on project to learn these steps and skills!
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In addition to our UNICEF learning, this week groups worked on completing the best world map they could make. Each group was given a mission with a spec sheet of what their map was to include. Children worked together to identify each continent and ocean by using resources around the room such as our wall map, globe, and atlases. Throughout this "map mission", ways to earn extra points were given, such as labeling the equator and prime meridian, and labeling about where New York state is located. The buzz of learning was in the air during this project. Ask your child how his/her group figured out the correct configurations of the continents and oceans. They should be proud to tell you how their group completed the mission.
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We began Unit 2 this week. We practiced different strategies to strengthen our addition skills. Ask your child to share with you some of the "What's My Rule" function machines. Children familiarized themselves with many variations in class and should be excited to share their knowledge with you at home. Students practiced fact extensions. Although this may be different from how you and I learned addition, it does offer students a different approach to number sense. Encourage your student to tell you what they are thinking about when they're doing a fact extension such as: 3+4=7, so 13+4=17, and therefore 53+14=67. Because fact extensions stem from the basic facts, it is important to continue practicing those mad minutes! |
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10/22 1/2 Day (Conferences) Communication: Book Orders: |
Halloween Fun Fair Cafe Goods: Conferences: Helpful Info to Keep On Hand: You can order online now! Go to: Our class User Name is: 3Fitz
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