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Week of January 26, 2015
Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a wonderful 3 WRITING: We will continue our writing unit on
day weekend, and ready for a great week!
Narrative Writing. We will focus on incorporating the
point of view of the character in a mentor text. The
students will respond to the text by analyzing the
What is going on in the classroom?
characters point of view, and discuss how their point
READING In reading, we will discuss poetry, and theof view is similar or different.
characteristics of poem that considers it a part of the
poetry genre. In guided reading groups, we will focus SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we will continue our
on comparing and contrasting two different texts social studies unit on Susan B. Anthony. The
on the same topic. We will focus on nonfiction texts students will investigate why we study her, how she
with this skill, and how to write about the similarities helped expand our democracy, and the ways she is
remembered. We will test on fossils on Friday,
and differences we find in the text.
January 30.
READING AT HOME: Tween Tribune. Students
can enjoy reading, and practicing their skills at home IMPORTANT DATES:
through Tween Tribune. This is a website filled with January 30- DSES Annual Career Day
kid friendly articles based on current events. Students February 4- Capital Building Field Trip
can read the articles, and discuss their thoughts with February 5- Fulton County Teaching Museum Field
others! They will need their username and password Trip
to log on, which is located inside their agendas!
February 16- NO SCHOOL- Presidents Day
http://www.tweentribune.com/
February 27- Six Flags Reading Challenge Due

MATH: 3.1 We will being our next unit, Unit 4 which

DSES CAREER DAY: DSES Annual Career Day is

centers around Geometry. Students will identify
different shapes by their names and attributes.
this Friday! We are so excited for all of the volunteers
4.1 We will continue to focus around whole number
and presenters who are coming in, and cant wait to
place value through the 1 millions, rounding, addition, learn all about their careers. If you are a volunteer,
and subtraction.
please refer to the email from our assistant principal,
**3.1 AND 3.2: Please continue to use your childs
Ms. Haltrecht.
multiplication flash cards to practice facts!
LANGUAGE ARTSIn Language Arts this week we
will focus on pronouns, words that replaces nouns in
texts. We will discuss how to identify pronouns, and
which pronouns will grammatically take the place of
nouns based on sentences subject-verb
agreement.

Ms. Goldman

Dunwoody Springs Elementary

3rd grade
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