Can you believe it is already day 90 of third grade?
This is my absolute favorite time of the school year with our students. (The gorgeous weather we have had this week has made it even better!) If you haven't started noticing already, expect your student to grow by leaps and bounds in responsibility, independence, maturity, and understanding of concepts and skills over the next few months. Like we said at Open House, be ready to see a different (even more amazing) kid than the one who walked into our doors in August.
So, where are we going from here?
In Math Workshop, we will be challenged with reviewing skills from the beginning of the year (in the context of more word and multi-step problems this time around) and moving forward into new concepts (division, fractions, two-dimensional geometry) and skills (measuring length to the nearest half and quarter inch/centimeter, time to the nearest half or quarter hour, elapsed time). To provide necessary review and reinforcement, expect more math homework to be assigned over the next several weeks. Concerning basic fact timed tests, we will start multiplication fact family fluency and possibly review some of our addition and subtraction fact families to maintain fluency.
I hope you will be able to join us for Math Night on January 31 from 6:30-7:30. We'll be sharing resources and strategies for helping students with fractions.
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