Personal Narrative Week

Housekeeping:
Monday, September 16, 2013: Early Release/PLC
Monday, September 23, 2013: PTA Carnival
October 9, 2013: Picture Day

Language Arts:
This week we are working on our first large writing assignment. The task is a personal narrative story. We will write the narrative in class. The narrative will consist of three paragraphs. The students will edit the piece and rewrite it for our Personal Narrative class book. Here are some of the items we are looking for:

• colorful descriptive words
• an organized beginning, middle, and end
• a "grab your attention" beginning
• neatness
• proper punctuation and spelling

We understand this is their first attempt at a third grade writing piece. We will really assist them and help them to have a good experience. Writing can sometimes be a difficult task, but the Idaho Common Core Standards requires a lot of writing experiences.

Math:

Over the past 2 weeks we have been reviewing basic fact fluency. We have practiced doubles, doubles plus one, add one more, and make a ten strategy. We have also been working on place value in the ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands. For the next 6 weeks we will work on the following "I Can" learning targets:

• I can round numbers to the nearest ten
• I can round numbers to the nearest hundred
• I can multiply a one digit number by a multiple of ten
• I can fluently add numbers within 1,000
• I can fluently subtract numbers within 1,000
• I can add or subtract using strategies
• I can solve problems using the inverse operation for addition and subtraction.

Science:

The third grade class at Ellis is studying the earth, moon, sun and moon. We are trying to integrate a lot of hands on investigations as we learn about our earth and surroundings. 

Question of the Week:

Mrs. Graham biked 623 miles over the summer. Mrs. VanEvery biked 32 more miles than Mrs. Graham. How many miles did Mrs. VanEvery bike?

Use the T.I.P.S. strategy to solve the problem.

T.hought

I.nformation

P.lan

S.olution