Important Dates to Remember

Mon., May 6 - Fri., May 10Third Graders raised almost

$500 selling bookmarks to Rock View students, staff, and family members.

WAY TO GO THIRD GRADE!

Friday, May 17Interim Reports & Data Notebooks Sent Home

Monday, May 27 Memorial Day Holiday -

No school for students & staff

Wednesday, May 29 - 9 AMSpring Concert at Rock View in

the All Purpose Room for students and staff

Monday, June 3Second, Third, and Fifth Grade

Evening Spring Concert at Einstein High School for

friends and family

Wednesday, June 12Third Grade Picnic

Friday, June 14-Early Release Day for students-Last Day of School for students

Tuesday, June 25Report Cards Go Home

Third Grade Business Supporting the Anacostia Watershed - A Big Hit at Rock View!!!

The Anacostia Watershed Society has partnered with Rock View this year to educate our students in ways we impact our community, environment, and how we can contribute our time, energy and voice to lessening the impact. The Anacostia Watershed Society has one ambition - they want the Anacostia River, the other river flowing through our nation’s capital, to be a clean and healthy place to live and visit once more.

Third grade students have been participating with them this year, and they wanted to give back. As a result, the third grade team created a bookmark business. Students created bookmarks earlier in the year to sell and to give the proceeds to AWS, but we thought since we were so close to Earth Day, we could make more, sell more, and give more to them! Those of you who participated in the Earth Day clean up saw firsthand how the Anacostia River needs our help, and every little bit counts.

We sold these magnificent bookmarks with seeds last week in the morning in front of the office and the cafeteria. All third grade students took part in this business venture/fundraiser in the form of sales, marketing, advertising, packaging, manufacturing and creating our products. They even had to submit job applications for the department they wanted to work for and explain why they thought they would be a good fit for the job.

This business venture really took off. In just five days, we raised $469 (the total keeps growing!). WE ARE SO PROUD OF ALL OUR THIRD GRADERS! Not only did our students learn how to run an authentic business, but they also saw firsthand how hard work, effort, persistence, collaboration, and original thinking can truly make a difference in the business world. This activity served as a great synergy between our Science and Social Studies curriculums too.

Many thanks to our parent volunteers who

gave their time to help our worthy cause.

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

nothing is going to get better. It's not..”

- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Spring 2013

Third GradeROCK VIEW POST

Spring Concert

All 2nd, 3rd and 5th graders will participate in the daytime school performance.

An evening concert will be held at

Einstein High School - Monday, June 3rd

Concert starts at 7pm.

Please plan to arrive at 6:30pm!Dress should be nice festive spring clothes

Math Enrichment

Stay involved with your child's mathematical thinking, reasoning and skills. Have game night, math challenge night, or something fun that involves you, your child and math!

Try to these problems at home!

Turkey'Time

Start out simple... Julia Child was roasting a turkey. It has been out of the oven for 20 minutes. The turkey was roasting for 4 hours and 15 minutes. The oven was preheated for 10 minutes. If it is 5:00 now, then what time did Julia put the turkey in the oven?

Picture'ItNow try to work this out... A"picture that measures 12 cm by 18 cm is enlarged to 4 times its area. What are the new dimensions?

Surprise,'Surprise

This will really challenge you...!"Extravagant Ellie and Thrifty Tanya each have bank accounts. Ellie has $500 and Tanya has $200.  Ellie withdraws $15 each weekend while Tanya deposits $12. At the end of 13 weeks, what is the difference in their bank accounts? Solve this algebraically. Can you find a week when there is only a $3 difference? Hint: It is before the 13th week.

Practice! Practice! Practice!Keep practicing multiplication and division facts!  It’s a tough challenge, but it is

essential that these skills are mastered in 3rd grade!   Once mastered, keep practicing!   It’s a continuous cycle of practicing, learning, and maintaining!

Accuracy and speed are the goals!

It’s hard to believe we have only a month left of the 2012-2013 school year. Below you will find some skills we are covering during this fourth quarter marking period...

Reading•Recount key details to explain the theme of folktales, fables, legends and myths•Explain how illustrations create mood and emphasize character traits•Ask and answer questions to identify characteristics of traditional stories•Identify main ideas and themes•Describe how characters’ actions contribute to the sequence of events•Distinguish personal point of view from narrator or author•Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases•Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix or suffix is added•Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases•Explore nonfiction text including literary nonfiction, autobiographies, journals, and online resources

Writing/ Language Arts•Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in sentences•Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening•Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking•Use spelling patterns and generalizations in writing words•Choose topics for writing and locate resources•Gather facts and evaluate resources for writing tasks•Revise writing to include facts, details, and definitions•Write an opinion question and analyze facts to develop reasons that support it•Group and sequence reasons in logical order•Draft opinion paragraphs using reasons and evidence•Use the writing process to gather ideas, draft, revise, edit and publish narrative, informational, and opinion texts

Math•Represent and solve 1 and 2-step word problems with unknowns in all positions and with all operations•Represent and solve 2-step word problems using equations and all operations, and assess the reasonableness of answers•Fluently multiply and divide within 100 (factors 0-10)•Tell and write time to the nearest minute (analog clock)•Match times on analog and digital clocks•Solve addition and subtraction word problems involving time using number line diagrams•Estimate and measure liquid volume/capacity (milliliters, liters) and weight (grams, kilograms) using metric units•Represent and solve word problems involving metric units of liquid volume and weight•Identify perimeter as a linear measurement and determine perimeters of 2-dimensional figures•Solve perimeter problems including determining the length of an unknown side•Distinguish between linear and area measures and solve problems involving rectangles with the same perimeters but different areas and same areas but different perimeters•Draw scaled pictographs and bar graphs to display data sets•Solve 1 or 2-step problems using information displayed on graphs•Compare, sort, and classify attributes of quadrilaterals (including rhombuses, rectangles, squares, parallelograms, trapezoids and other 4-sided plane shapes)

Science and Social Studies - In Science, students will explore a variety of plant and animal habitats. They will describe the relationship between living organisms and the environment. Students will also identify and define how natural resources are used to meet human wants and needs and how human wants and needs impact the environment. Students will explore ways people can help the environment including using recyclable materials. In Social Studies, students will explore money management and will solve problems involving real-world economic decisions. Students will develop budgets, identify ways to generate income, identify savings goals, and will identify opportunity costs associated with consumer decisions. Students will determine differences between being a banked verses an unbanked consumer. Students will also investigate the steps taken to make recyclable products. They will explore the impact limited resources have on global markets. They will also study ways different people and countries trade goods and services around the world.