Skills for December 5-9:

ELA: Outer Space

Central Text: Moonshot

Students learn about the courage and joy of the Apollo 11 astronauts through two accounts of the famous mission: One Giant Step and Moonshot.

Skills:

Identify the parts of an introduction paragraph for an opinion essay.
Examine the function of adverbs in sentences.
Introduce the text, author, and topic and provide a clearly stated opinion and supporting reasons in an introduction paragraph for an opinion essay.
Identify the stages of the Apollo 11 mission and retell key events in sequence.
Math: Relating Multiplication to Division

Skills:

Represent and solve “how many groups?” and “how many in each group?” problems
Understand division as a missing-factor problem.
Use properties of operations to develop fluency with single-digit multiplication facts, and their related division facts.
Use properties of operations, place value understanding, ad the relationship between multiplication and division to divide within 100.
Science: Energy in Systems

Recognize that energy is present when objects move; describe the effects of energy transfer from one object to another.

Have a great weekend!

The 3rd Grade Team