Rataiczak's Review: August 2022

Friday, August 26, 2022

A Look Ahead

Meet Mrs. Smith

Mrs. Smith came in this week to read to the students. She is the school's reading coach. She reviewed the skills of asking questions before, during and after reading as well as making predictions.

Playground Fun

Curriculum

Math- We will jump into third grade standards with Multiplication Strategies. If you are interested in what your child will be learning about, please read the Family Letter. Your child started using Reflex today. Reflex is a site that will allow students to work on their fact fluency. The students will take MAP Math on Wednesday.

ELA- Our reading story for the week is Judy Moody. We will focus on figurative language and literacy elements. We will also start our first writing unit on narrative writing. The students will have a reading assessment on Judy Moody and the skills we focused on this week on Friday. The students will take MAP Reading on Tuesday.

Science- We continue to focus on plant and animal habitats.

Social Studies- The students will be introduced to world geography next week.

Related Arts Schedule

Monday- PE
Tuesday- Science Lab
Wednesday- Art
Thursday-Computer Lab
Friday- Music

Important Dates

Tuesday, August 30th- Virtual Parent Orientation, 5:00pm or 5:45pm, MAP Reading

Wednesday, August 31st- MAP Math

Monday, September 5th- Labor Day, No School

Monday, September 12th- 16th- Book Fair

Friday, September 16th- First Quarter Interim

Friday, August 19, 2022

A Look Ahead

Friday Folders

Your child is coming home with his/her green Friday Folder. These will come home every Friday with important papers and grades. Please look through them and send the folder back with your child on Monday. Please note the letter explaining the SC Read to Succeed Act for 3rd graders. If you have any questions, please let me know.

STEM Challenge

The students worked with their learning club to see how many pennies they could suspend in a cup without it tipping over. They were given yarn, tape, scissors and straws. We had a class discussion about how in third grade some things are going to be hard and you might not succeed at it the first time, but you should keep trying and not give up. I have a saying I use a lot in my classroom: "It is ok not to know, but it is not ok to not try".

Media Center

The students enjoyed media center orientation today. They were able to check out books. I look forward to listening to them read and hear/see what they are reading about.

Curriculum

Math- We will be reviewing a few standards from second grade before we jump into the third grade math standards. We will review place value, addition and subtraction strategies, and reading and writing numbers in different forms (standard, word and expanded).

ELA- We will focus on characters in the first module of our reading series. We will discuss prefixes and suffixes and complete sentences including subject and predicate. We will also do some creative writing pieces.

Science- We will focus on plant and animal habitats.

Social Studies- We will focus on community and being a good citizen.