Global Mid-Year Newsletter & Overview Grade 3, Room 132 Mrs. Rhey-Fisher’s Class Newsletter

Grade: 3 Room: 132 Mid-Year Report

IB-PYP Program Info ………………………………………………………………….…p. 1 Unit of Inquiry progress……………………………………………………………..…p. 1 READsponsibility (Reading Program) progress………………..………….…p. 2 Eureka (Math Program) progress……………………………………………….…p. 2 Students of the month (September-Now) …………………………..…….…p. 3 Noteworthy News (class happenings -projects, events & more)……………….…p. 4 Still to Come (upcoming events, projects, etc.)…………….…………….……..……….…p. 6

IB-PYP (International Baccalaureate - Primary Years Programme)

Mission The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

Transdisciplinary Themes/ Units of Inquiry 1. Who We Are 2. How We Organize Ourselves

3. Where We Are In Place And Time this is where we are

4. How the World Works 5. How We Express Ourselves 6. Sharing the Planet

Please visit: www.gca3rd.weebly.com for additional info and to view pictures.

Global Communications Academy

How We Organize Ourselves

Employment is a vital part of our cultural survival

and advancement. Summative: Career Report

Who We Are

Communities change to meet the needs of its people.

Summative: Communication Timeline

Global Mid-Year Newsletter & Overview Grade 3, Room 132

Our READsponsibility Reading Program

Biography Study:

Roberto Clemente Wilma Rudolph Jesse Owens Pablo Picasso Helen Keller

George Crum George Washington Carver Marian Anderson Patience Wright this is where we are Harriet Tubman

General Books: (Various Cultures & Genres)

The Keeping Quilt Meet Danitra Brown Abuela’s Weave Big Jabe

Under the Quilt of the Night Lon Po Po Knots on a Counting Rope John Henry

Common core reading standards covered so far… Reading Literature: ✓ RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding ✓ RL.3.4 Determine the meaning of words ✓ RL.3.5 Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking ✓ RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to meaning

Reading Informational Text: ✓ R.I.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they

support main idea ✓ RI.3.3 Describe the relationships between a series of historical events, concepts, steps in

technical procedures in a text using language that pertains to time, sequence, cause and effect.

✓ RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

Our Eureka Math Program Module 1: Properties of Multiplication and Division and Solving Problems

with Units of 2–5 and 10 Module 2: Place Value and Problem Solving with Units of Measure Module 3: Multiplication and Division with Units of 0, 1, 6–9, and Multiples of

10

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Global Mid-Year Newsletter & Overview Grade 3, Room 132

Module 4: Multiplication and Area < - - - we are here Module 5: Fractions as Numbers on the Number Line Module 6: Collecting and Displaying Data Module 7: Geometry and Measurement Word Problems

Please visit: www.zearn.org for additional info on each module (each student has a login).

Common core math standards covered so far… Number & Operations: ✓ 3.OA.1: Interpret products of whole numbers ✓ 3.OA.3: Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems ✓ 3.OA.4: Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation

relating three whole three numbers. ✓ 3.OA.C.7: Fluently multiply and divide within 100

Measurement & Data: ✓ 3.MD.A.1: Tell time to the nearest minute ✓ 3.MD.A.2: Measure and estimate liquid volumes

✓ 3.MD.B.3: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph ✓ 3.MD.C.6: Measure areas by counting unit squares

Geometry: ✓ 3G.A.1 Reason with shapes and their attitudes ✓ 3G.A.2 Partition shapes into parts

Students of the Month so far…

Makayla Forde

Tiahra Hawkins

Jennetsy Rodriguez

Isaiah Bell

Isaiah Brown

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Global Mid-Year Newsletter & Overview Grade 3, Room 132

More noteworthy news…

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I gave birth to a baby boy,

his name is Devon! He is

now 6 months old!

We had our 3rd

grade literacy

night. All students

who attended

received free

pajamas!

Our class sung our

hearts out as we

performed, “This Little

Light of Mine”

Our free book program: Thanks to…

Mr. and Mrs. Freed who reads to our class every month and gives them a

free book during visits!

Global Mid-Year Newsletter & Overview Grade 3, Room 132

We had tons

of fun filling

our tummies

at our school-

wide Potluck

Dinner

We won 2nd place

during our Black

History Month

Door contest!

Our class wall

display on George

Washington Carver

after reading his

biography (left).

Aziyah talked about

his determination

(right).

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Global Mid-Year Newsletter & Overview Grade 3, Room 132

Still to come…

We are the class of 2024 and we are college bound!

Global Communications Academy

Room 132, 860-695-6069

Class: www.rhey-fisherclass.weebly.com

3rd Grade: www.gca3rd.weebly.com

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• College Awareness Week …our cheer is hot, come watch us as we

perform at the PYP cheer off on Fri. 3/24! (March 20th – 24th)

• Visit from author Steve Krasner for our “How the World Works”

Unit to do interactive writing activity with students on the rock

cycle (April 4th)

• Junior Achievement Day (April 18th)

• MAP Reading Test (April 20th 8:55a)

• Elite Percussion Glow in the Dark Fundraiser Night (April 21st)

• Where We Are in Place and Time Presentation: (Summative Map

Board Games) (Date TBA)

• Wadsworth Athenium visits our grade

• MAP Math Test (April 27th 8:55a)

• SBAC Testing (May 24th – 25th)