Dear Parents,
Reminders
-This week, students interested in showcasing their talent performed in front of their peers. If you child was chosen to share their talent in the School Wide Talent Show, you will have received a permission slip. Please return that as soon as possible.
-Shape Museum. This week, we have been exploring 3D shapes. We will be building a Shape Museum of found objects. Please watch your email for a request for small everyday items from home for this project.
Celebration of Learning
Thank you to all those who were able to attend our Celebration of Learning this week. Students worked in an intentional way these last few weeks to capture their learning in meaningful ways that truly illustrated the depth of their understanding of the places that we visited and connected to in our downtown community. We were so thrilled to welcome a large group into our learning space. Students also had the opportunity to share with our grade 4 buddies and kindergarten.
Math
This week we have been exploring 3D shapes. The following is a summary of the key ideas to help support your child’s learning.
Learning Intention
I can identify and describe 3-D shapes, including their faces and where they are seen in the environment.
Which 3-D Shapes Should Students Meet?
Students should have opportunities to see and use cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders, and rectangular prisms.
It is important that they see 3-D shapes in different orientations and sizes.
What Should Students Include When They Describe 3-D shapes?
When students describe a 3-D shape, they can talk about a real item that the shape is like, and they can describe the shape’s attributes, for example,
For example, students might describe a sphere as something that looks like a ball, rolls, and reminds them of a circle.
They might describe a cylinder as having two circle faces, having a round part that is not a face, and rolls when it’s on its round part but doesn’t roll if it’s sitting on one of its faces. They might say that a cylinder looks like a can. Some students might notice that a can has ridges that stick up around the circle faces, and actual cylinders don’t.
What Is an Effective Way to Trace All the Faces of a 3-D Shape?
Students trace all the faces of a 3-D shape to get familiar with how many faces the 3-D shape has and the shapes of those faces. It is hard to keep track of the faces and make sure that you trace them all. To help, students can put a sticker or a sticky note on each face as they trace it.
Helping Your Child With New Words
There are many opportunities to find and compare items at home that are similar in shape to 3-D shapes. You can help your child remember the names and characteristics of common 3-D shapes by relating them to items in the real world. For example:
Some lumps of sugar are cubes.
Some traffic pylons are shaped like cones.
A tennis ball is a sphere.
This drinking glass is almost a cylinder.
Many boxes are prisms.
Literacy
This week we have continued to look at word endings. We focused on Y say E at the end of word and LE at the end of the word. To help solidify these sounds please take a look our home practice and review these sounds with your child.
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