A Peek at Our Week
February 26, 2016
Ms. Collins, Third Grade, Claire.Collins@lz95.org
Spencer Loomis Elementary
Important
Dates
March 2-5s multiplication
March 7-RR due
March 9-2s multiplication
March 11-Report Cards
sent home
March 16-4s multiplication
March 21-RR due
March 23-8s multiplication
March 24-Cinderella Field
Trip
March 24-Submit
Scholastic Orders online
(class code: PT4N2)
March 25-April 3-Spring
Break
Enjoy your weekend! 
Reading- Our readers have been working hard to master some more complex
concepts! Last week, they identified the author’s tone of a text. Then we
watched two movie trailers and identified the “director’s” tone and the
choices that each director made to change the tone of the same trailer.
Our readers have also been inferring the author’s message and moral of a
story. They’ve been using the events in the story and their own background
knowledge to come to a conclusion about the moral of a story.
Math- The mathematicians in room 208 have been working hard to wrap up
their multiplication facts! To help them explore patterns in multiplication they
also learned about square numbers. Everyone really enjoyed the fact that
they’re called square numbers, simply because they make a square when you
draw an array for the fact!  We have also been working with the
associative property of addition. The students wrote multiplication sentences
for rectangular prisms to help them recognize that the numbers can go in any
order and they’ll still come to the same answer.
Writing- Our authors are continuing to write their drafts of their fictional
stories. This week, we practiced “lifting sentences”. This is where the
students choose a sentence from their piece to make it more detailed and
exciting.
Science and Social Studies- We have continued our study on the civil war
these past few weeks. Our historians developed a sense of empathy for
slaves as we read Follow the Drinking Gourd and Henry’s Freedom Box. They
also gained an understanding of the Underground Railroad and the difficult
decisions that slaves had to make.
Growth Mindset Words of the Month:
Feedback-information about reactions to a product, a person’s performance of
a task, used as a basis for improvement
Focus-the thinking skill that allows people to begin a task without
procrastination and then maintain their attention and effort until the task is
complete; helps people pay attention in the midst of distractions and
setbacks to sustain the effort and energy needed to reach a goal
Attitude: A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something,
typically one that is reflected in a person’s behavior
Please use these growth mindset words with your child at home. 
*Please remember to have your child use Keyboarding without Tears at least
5 times a week for 20 minutes.