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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)
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