What We're Working On

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This Section Is Always Under Construction

Into Reading Program

Our Language Arts program is called Into Reading. This reading program helps the students to dive deeper into the literature and do more Close Reading of the materials. It is full of fun stories, and has an awesome online component to help with writing, vocabulary, spelling, grammar and research.

iReady Math Home Letters

Third grade is an exciting year of new math concepts. Please watch for the family/home letter to be sent at the start of each new chapter. These have information regarding what we were working on in class, and the back of the letter has a game you can play with your child at home.

Classroom Rules

We have 5 important classroom rules that must be remembered. We will be reciting these on a daily basis for the first few weeks of school.

1. Follow Directions Quickly

2. Raise Your Hand To Speak

3. Make Smart Choices

4. Do Your Best

5. Keep Your Dear Teacher Happy

If the first four rules on our list are followed, rule number five happens naturally. When the first four rules are broken, then as a teacher I am not happy. It is my responsibility to teach your child and every other child in my classroom. The happier I am, the better I can do my job.

Science + Social Studies

This year we are learning about gravity & our solar system in our Wonders program and how they are related. We also discuss communities & civilizations in our Social Studies lessons.

We have some "out of this world" positives at Diamond Ridge that your child will be working towards. Please talk to them about all the wonderful positives & how they work.

Class Money Rocket Tickets Super Tickets Auctions Treasure Box Prizes Dojo Points Learning Loto Tickets

Extension Corner

Writing

We will be working on opinion writing and informative writing. The students will be assessed on these two writing topics throughout the year. Paragraphs should include 5 main components.

1. Introduction Statement- This should include a hook, opening sentence that answers the question being asked & if possible the three pieces of evidence they will discuss

2. Body-1 piece of evidence and specific supporting details

3. Body-1 piece of evidence and specific supporting details

4. Body-1 piece of evidence and specific supporting details

5. Conclusion Statement- This should summarize what they just wrote about

Language Arts & Social Studies

Daily Differentiated Reading Groups- Our reading groups are up and running. We will be holding groups for 55 minutes Monday-Thursday. These groups are differentiated for your child's specific learning needs, and can change throughout the year.

Book Reports- There are 3 major book reports assigned each year.

Mathematics

We will be using the assessment information from our Progress Monitoring Assessments and Benchmark Assessments to create differentiated learning group.

Also...please feel free to have your student work on any of the GoMath games that have been assigned to them at home, and look for the enrichment assignments on the ThinkCentral website to access deeper level math sheets your child may practice at home.

Science

We will begin the year with our unit on Traits. We also study topics such as Living and Non-Living, Gravity, Force and Motion, Life Cycles, Weather and other fun topics.

﻿﻿Mr. Christensen's 3rd Grade Class