Hello Lincoln Families,
If you haven't signed up for a conference, please click this link: Student-Led Conferences.
Wow! Thank you so much for supporting your child with their home reading. Our class has been busy finishing books and writing summaries, which has led to lots of great conversations and celebrations. I'm excited to share that many students earned yards/touchdowns this week for their hard work!
Thank you to the families who have kindly donated snacks for our classroom. Your generosity is greatly appreciated! We are going through them quickly. In the past, when students didn't have a snack, the office would provide one for them. However, Mrs. Knuth wanted us to reach out to families for donations, because the office will no longer be able to offer them. It's just too expensive. Currently, I have a pack of 60 small bags of pretzels. We should be fine for a bit. If you can donate in the future, that would be helpful. Quick grab-and-go snacks, such as pretzels and cheese crackers, are best. Thank you for your help and consideration.
Remember to help your child bring in snacks that are quick and easy for your child to handle. For example, please refrain from yogurt, pudding, uncut fruit, Doritos, Takis, or messy items as daily snacks. This prevents spills from damaging school devices, furniture, and carpet. Often, we have to eat a quick snack while working. These snacks work better in the lunchroom. Thank you for your understanding.
Have a fantastic week!
Important Dates
Late Starts: Every Wednesday in September
Picture Day: (retakes 10/15)
Count Day: 10/1
Laps for Lincoln: 10/3
No School: 10/10 PD day for teachers
Student-led Conferences Dates: 10/8, 10/9, 10/16, 10/17
Fall Party: 10/31
Be sure to add the party dates to your calendar!
Fall Party--October 31
Winter Party--December 19
Kindness Party--February 13
In the Classroom:
Please ask your child what they are learning in our classroom!
Reading: Letter to Families: Unit 1 Poetry; Unit 1 Performance Task
Math: Unit 2: Unit 2 Narrative video
In this unit, students extend their prior understanding of equivalent fractions and the comparison of fractions.
In grade 3, students partitioned shapes into parts with equal area and expressed the area of each part as a unit fraction. They learned that any unit fraction results from a whole partitioned into equal parts. They used unit fractions to build non-unit fractions, including fractions greater than 1, and represent them on fraction strips and tape diagrams. The denominators of these fractions were limited to 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8. Students also worked with fractions on a number line, establishing the idea of fractions as numbers and equivalent fractions as the same point on the number line. Here, students follow a similar progression of representations. They use fraction strips, tape diagrams, and number lines to make sense of the size of fractions, generate equivalent fractions, and compare and order fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100.
Students generalize that a fraction is equivalent to fraction because each unit fraction is being broken into times as many equal parts, making the size of the part times as small and the number of parts in the whole times as many. For example, we can see that it is equivalent to because when each fifth is partitioned into 2 parts, there are 6 shaded parts, twice as many as before, and the size of each part is half as small, or.
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Weekly Specials Schedule
Lunch: 11:30-11:55 Lunch Recess: 11:55-12:20
A.M. Recess: 10:00-10:15 every day
P.M. Recess: 2:20-3:05 every day
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