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3rd Grade January 2009 Newsletter

The third grade newsletter provides updates on Reader's Workshop, Writer's Workshop, Social Studies/Science, and Everyday Math. In Reader's Workshop, students are working on identifying causes and effects and forming conclusions from texts. In Writer's Workshop, students will write responses to literature by writing letters to characters. In Social Studies, students will study and compare life in China and America. In Science, students will study electricity after finishing a unit on energy. Everyday Math will focus on multiplication and division, with students expected to learn their multiplication tables.

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3rd Grade January 2009 Newsletter

The third grade newsletter provides updates on Reader's Workshop, Writer's Workshop, Social Studies/Science, and Everyday Math. In Reader's Workshop, students are working on identifying causes and effects and forming conclusions from texts. In Writer's Workshop, students will write responses to literature by writing letters to characters. In Social Studies, students will study and compare life in China and America. In Science, students will study electricity after finishing a unit on energy. Everyday Math will focus on multiplication and division, with students expected to learn their multiplication tables.

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The Anne Sullivan School

P.S. 238
1633 East 8th Street
Brooklyn, NY 112223

January 2009
Vo l u m e 1 I s s u e 5

3rd Grade Newsletter


Dear Parents, Reader’s Workshop
Can you believe it is January already, In the reader’s workshop, we continue to
and half the school year has come and work on developing and improving the
gone! We look forward to the second part reading skills and strategies of all the
children. In the upcoming weeks, we will be
of the year being as productive and working on the skill of identifying the cause
fulfilling as the first half. and its effect in a given situation. We will
In a few days, your child will be taking the also be working on identifying and forming
State ELA exam. Once that is over, we will conclusions.
be focusing our attention on getting ready
for the state math exam. We ask that you
practice number facts, particularly Writer’s Workshop
multiplication facts, with your child each
During the month of January, we will be
night.
working on writing a response to literature.
The children will be asked to write a letter
Sincerely, to a character in a story that we have all
The Third Grade Teachers read. They will practice all of the skills they
have learned so far this year, and will
produce a final product ready to be
Social Studies/Science published. As always, your child is
responsible to edit and revise their own
In Social Studies, the children will be work.
“traveling” to China to compare life in
China to life here in America.
The children will be doing research on
line, as well as from books, about the
differences in language, schools, and
culture between our two countries Everyday Math
This month we will begin the unit on the
In Science, the children will complete meaning of multiplication and division. Your
their study of energy, and move on to child will be required to learn all the
study electricity. The science curriculum multiplication tables as they are introduced in
is challenging, but quite interesting. class. It is very important that everyone
studies their number facts daily.

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