Weekly Update

Hello Everyone!

Who's excited for snow??? I am! I guess we'll know soon enough if we'll actually get some snow this year. I'm flushing ice down the toilet all week =) I've heard that does the trick!

There are a lot of fun things happening this week in 3rd grade (including the possibility of snow):

• Our field trip to the Chattahoochee Nature Center is this Friday! Please have your child wear his or her gray & white Addison shirt, or a gray shirt if you don't have the Addison one. We will also need jackets and comfortable shoes, as part of our field trip will be walking outside. If your child is brining a lunch from home, please send it in a plastic or paper bag labeled with his or her name.
• This Thursday is STEM Day at Addison. All classes will be participating in various STEM activities on Thursday. Be sure to ask your child about his or her experiences! We will kick off our STEM challenge with some research on Wednesday, and then Thursday will be all about designing, building, and testing!
• Our school counselor, Ms. Weston, will be coming for a lesson with us on Thursday afternoon.

Here's a look at our learning this week:

In writing, we are finishing typing our opinion pieces. Have you asked your child what his or her topic was? We've had some interesting opinions going on! We will also be working on understanding comparative and superlative adjectives this week.

In reading, we will wrap up our unit on literal/non-literal language. The students have had a lot of fun with these phrases. We read some Amelia Bedelia books last week and saw that she needs to work on using context clues to understand what people really mean. We will 

In science, we will wrap up our Georgia region unit with an assessment and our STEM project and our field trip! Then we will switch over to social studies. We will learn that different countries use different forms of currency. To help us with this concept, if you're comfortable sending in coins or paper money from other countries, please feel free to send them in with your child this week.

In math, we will continue our work with fractions. This week, our focus will be on comparing fractions and understanding equivalent fractions. 

As always, please feel free to reach out to me or Mrs. Keith with any questions or concerns.

Have a great week! Think snowy thoughts!