Math: Last week's quiz is coming home today with a cover letter attached. In it, I describe how I am making some changes to my math instruction. So far we have covered a significant amount of curriculum (3rd grade and challenge content) with mixed results. The first area I look to make changes to is in my instruction. Based on student performance, I have essentially developed two groups in my class:
- Those that need more time to strengthen their conceptual knowledge so they can apply it to 4th grade content.
- Those who continue to demonstrate solid understanding of all the challenge content instructed so far.
This is perfectly fine if this meets the needs of all the children in my class. However, as some of you will see, the sheer number of careless errors on last week's quiz is proving to be quite frustrating. I would love to have all my students follow directions and check over their thinking/work but for whatever reason, some seem reluctant to step up their efforts and pay attention to detail. Today, each student highlighted areas on their quiz they felt demonstrated "silly mistakes." Please take some time to go over their quiz tonight so you can reinforce the importance of taking your time and following directions. Also, they have a brief assignment on line plots in their textbook. If the quiz takes up a chunk of time, jot me a note and I'll give another night for the line plot task.
Reading: We continued our work with text features by discussing how previewing a text activates our background knowledge. Each student has a book to reread tonight for homework. RRJs or JGB packets will be assigned later this week.
Social Studies: We discussed the difference between goods and services while introducing the idea of workers in society. Tomorrow we will read a book that includes all three of these concepts.
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