Wood, Jacqueline-Third Grade
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May Newsletter
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 5/1/2025What's Happening This Month:
May 5th: Garden Lesson
May 12th-16th: Exact Path Testing
May 20th: Swimming Field Trip
May 23rd: Swimming Field Trip.
May 26th: No School
May 28th: Nature Walk Field Trip
A Peek at What We Are Learning:
Reading: We are working on understanding that literary and informational texts can be used to explore similar topics and ideas.
Writing: We will be learning to understand that opinions are supported by reasons and evidence.
Math: We will be working in Unit 5 and 6. In these units we will be focusing on measuring time, liquid volume and mass. As well as looking at shapes and their attributes and categories, perimeter and area, and partitioning.
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April Newsletter
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 4/1/2025What's Happening This Month:
April 9th: Battle of the Books Final
April 14th-18th: MAST Testing
April 30th: Spark Field Trip to the U of M
A Peek at What We are Learning:
Reading: We are in Unit 3 Module A, and we are working on understanding that stories have important central messages, lessons, or morals.
Writing: We are working in Unit 3 Module A, and we are learning to understand that opinion writing supports a point of view with reasons.
Math: We are in Unit 4 and learning all about fractions. Specifically equivalency and comparison. We will also be learning about measurement and data.
Please continue to work with your student on multiplication and division facts.
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March Newsletter
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 3/1/2025What's Happening This Month
March 4th - Field Trip to Humane Society of Western Montana
March 12th - 13th: Parent Teacher Conferences
March 14th - 21st: No School Spring Break
A Peek At What We Are Learning
Reading: We are in Unit 3 Module A, and we are working on understanding that stories have important central messages, lessons, or morals.
Writing: We are working in Unit 3 Module B, and we are learning to understand that opinion writing supports a point of view with reasons.
Math: We are beginning Unit 4, and we will be learning all about fractions. We will be understanding equivalent fractions, comparing fractions and working with plot data and line plots. Please continue to work with your student on multiplication and division facts.
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February Newsletter
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 2/1/2025What's Happening This Month
February 7th, 21st, 28th - Nutrition
February 10th - No School
February 11th to 14th - SPARK Artist
February 14th - Valentine’s Day party
February 17th - No School
A Peek At What We Are Learning
Reading: We are in Unit 3 Module A, and we are working on understanding that stories have important central messages, lessons, or morals.
Writing: We are working in Unit 3 Module A, and we are learning that opinion writing supports a point of view with reasons.
Math: We are working through Unit 3, where we are focusing on finding areas, solving word problems and using scaled graphs all while utilizing our new multiplication facts and understanding.
Please continue to work with your student on multiplication and division facts.
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January Newsletter
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 1/10/2025A Peek At What We Are Learning
Reading: We are wrapping up 2A where we are learning to understand that asking and answering questions using text-based evidence can help us better comprehend text.
Writing: We are working on understanding that dialogue and characters’ actions help develop the events in a story.
Math: We are starting Unit 3, which focuses on finding area, solving word problems and using scaled graphs.
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December
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 12/1/2024What is Happening This Month:
December 6th - Insectarium presentation.
December 13th - Nutcracker Ballet Field TripDecember 18th - Winter performance 12:30
December 20th - Butterfly House Field Trip
December 23rd - January 5th: No School
A Peek at What We are Learning
Reading: We are focusing on using text-based evidence to ask and answer questions about texts.
Writing: We are working hard on understanding that dialogue and characters’ actions help develop the events in a story.
Math: We are almost done with Unit 2 which focuses on multiplication and division and will be moving into Unit 3 where we will be learning how to find area, solve word problems and use a scaled graph.
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November Newsletter
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 11/18/2024 4:00:00 PMWhat's Happening This Month:
November 13th and 14th: Parent Teacher conferences.
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November 14th: Early out at 11:05
November 15th: No School
November 27th-29th: No School
A Peek at What we are Learning:
Reading: We are wrapping up Unit 1B and moving into Unit 2A. We will be focusing on understanding that asking and answering questions using text-based evidence can help us better text.
Writing: We will be focusing on understanding that dialogue and characters’ actions help develop the events in a story.
Math: We are working in Unit 2 which focuses on multiplication and division.
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October Newsletter
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 11/18/2024 4:00:00 PMWhat's Happening this Month
October 3rd: Picture Day
October 11th: Walk-a-thon
October 17th and 18th: No School
October 31st: Halloween Party
A Peek at What we are Learning:
Reading: We are learning to understand the actions and motivations of characters in stories.
Writing: We are working on understanding that characters’ actions affect the sequence of events in a story. We are also working on learning our lowercase cursive letters.
Math: We are focusing on multiplication and division, specifically concepts, relationships and patterns.
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September Newsletter
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 8/29/2024What's Happening This Month
September 2nd: No School
September 5th: Open House
September 12th: Evacuation Drill 1:00
September 18th: Lockdown Drill 9:00
Reminder that every Thursday is early out, at 2:10
A Peek At What We Are Learning
Reading: We have started learning our routines and expectations for Daily 5, and we are rocking it!
Writing: We will start learning and practicing our cursive.
Math: After some procedural practice, we will begin our iReady Math lessons. We will begin with place value.
Leader In Me: We are learning about the 7 habits and how these habits support learning, personal development, and a positive classroom culture.
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June Newsletter
Posted by Jacqueline Wood on 6/1/2024What's Happening This Month
June 4th - Field Day 12:00-1:00
June 5th - Field Trip to Fort Missoula
June 7th - Last Day of school early out at 11:00 am
A Peek at What We are Learning
Reading: We are working on understanding that literary and informational texts can be used to explore similar topics and ideas.
Writing: We will be learning to understand that opinions are supported with reasons and evidence.
Math: We are learning geometry. Focusing on classifying quadrilaterals. We will also be reviewing multiplication, division as well as adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers.