Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Highlights:
We are continuing to work through 3-digit addition and subtraction problems and word problems. This unit is wrapping up and we will be having a test next Thursday. We will send home test review sheets tomorrow. Please work through them over the next week. They do not need to be returned.

Spelling quizzes were marked and sent home today.

We are also wrapping up our Hearing and Sound unit in science. There are a few more inquiry-based activities with Mystery Science that we will do over the next week and a science test will be given the week of March 12th. A study guide will be sent home next week.

We have been working on writing an entertaining beginning for our winter adventure stories. Today we learned that a good beginning will include one of the following: an action - What would you do?, dialogue or exclamation - What would you say?, a thought/question - What are you wondering about?, or a sound - What would you hear?

Here is an example of a boring beginning related to a haunted house: Hi, my name is Kate. I will tell you about my adventure exploring a haunted house! Here is an example of revising the boring sentence for something that will grab the readers attention using an action: My hands trembled as I opened the creaky old door of the deserted house.

Pink Shirt Day was a success at PHS yesterday! The students were able to fill the board with awesome messages of kindness!

Reminders:

~ Book Orders due - March 9th 

~ March 22nd - Jump Rope for Heart pledge forms and donations due.

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Science-in-a-Box: Click here for more information regarding Science-in-a-Box and the schedule! 

~ Math: 

Unit: Addition and Subtraction; Learning Goals

• use strategies to recall basic addition and subtraction facts
• solve addition and subtraction equations
• estimate sums and differences for 2-digit numbers 
• add and subtract 2-digit numbers mentally
• use personal strategies to add and subtract numbers with up to 3 digits
• write and solve addition  and subtraction problems 

Lesson 1: Use strategies and properties for basic addition facts. 

Lesson 2: Use related addition and subtraction facts to answer equations. 
Lesson 3: Find the missing number in an equation. 

Lesson 4: Estimating sums

Lesson 5: Adding 2-digit numbers
Lesson 6: Use mental math strategies to solve 2-digit numbers. 
Lesson 7: Use personal strategies to add 3-digit numbers.

Lesson 8: Estimating differences 
Lesson 9: Subtracting 2 digit numbers 
Lesson 10: Using mental math to subtract 
Lesson 11: Subtracting 3 digit numbers 
Lesson 12: Use personal strategies to add and subtract. 

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