Dear Third Grade Families,

Dear Third Grade Families,

We were WOWED by all of the Third Grader’s costumes yesterday as they eagerly came dressed as celebrities. We had Simone Biles, Gordon Ramsay, JoJo Siwa, Lionel Messi, Roger Federer, a secret service agent, Aly Raisman, Drew Brees, Madonna, Jimi Hendrix, Jessica Alba, Stephen Curry, Andre Agassi, and more! The day started by student being interviewed by Giuliana Rancic (aka Hilary) on our red carpet (We will be sending a picture slide show over break of all the wonderful costumes walking down the red carpet). Later in the day, we wrote a perspective writing piece about what a “day in the life” of our celebrity would be. Following that, we munched on popcorn while watching two shows highlighting famous characters of the early 90s — the casts of Hey Arnold and Rugrats! To our families, thank you so much for all of your help in preparing your student for our day of celebration!

This week in math, we continued our division unit, specifically looking at long division. There are two new vocabulary words we learned this week — ‘quotient’ and ‘remainder.’ A quotient is the answer to a division problem. 8 ÷ 2 = 4, 4 is the quotient. A remainder is the number left over from a division problem, such as 11 ÷ 2 = 5 r1 (picture seen below). When 11 is divided by 2, the remainder is 1.

As we have previously mentioned, division can be a very hard concept for students, both in understanding how we divide numbers into equal groups AND what we do when or if there is a reminder. By using unit blocks (ones cubes, tens rods), we worked together in what to do if an odd number of tens rods need to be divided by an even number — such as 3 tens divide by 2 equal groups. Just like in subtraction, we need to regroup the tens by putting one tens rod in each group, followed by trading the last tens rod in for ten ones cubes. 30 ÷ 2 = 15 → 1 ten and 5 ones in each group. We did this for equations such as 93 ÷ 4 = ?, 75 ÷ 5 = ?, as well as 47 ÷ 3 = ?.

Below is a short movie, from BrainPop, that talks about division without remainders. https://www.brainpop.com/math/numbersandoperations/division/ While it does not talk about remainders, or use numbers like “97 ÷ 5 = ?,” students will enjoy this reminder about how to divide. They especially enjoy the quizzes and games!

Topics for discussion:

• Social Studies
  • What is Caisson’s Disease?
    • What important person got the disease?
  • What is the height difference between the Manhattan Tower and the Brooklyn Tower, on the Brooklyn Bridge?
  • How did the construction of the Erie Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge help the citizens of New York State, specifically New York City?
• Reading
  • What do you think will happen during Opal and Gloria Dump’s party?
• Math
  • Have your student divide matzah evenly among all the people at the sedar table –> how many pieces can each person get?
• If you are traveling — what land forms do you see around you? How does the geography look different or similar to NYC?

Dates to remember:

• Monday, April 9 — school resumes

• Monday, April 16 — RESCHEDULED field trip to the Brooklyn Bridge

• Wednesday, April 18 — Yom Hazikaron, Israel Memorial Day

• Thursday, April 19 — Yom Haatzmaut, Israel Independence Day

• Wednesday, May 23 — ORANGE GROUP trip to Ellis Island

• Wednesday, May 30 — PURPLE GROUP trip to Ellis Island

Chag Sameach to everyone! We hope you have a wonderful Pesach  break!

Best,

Hilary and Talia

 

Hebrew with Ilana

Here are the videos for our Hebrew skit “Mr. Cohen”

 

 

 

 

Judaics with Aliza

This week, third graders finished up their Pesach projects, which they have taken home to share with you! We told stories about Pesach and the Exodus from Egypt, and even taste-tested Persian and Indian Charoset. Have a chag sameach!

Science with Sammi

The third grade scientists have officially completed their rocks and minerals unit! Over the past two weeks the students have used all their knowledge to create digital class books that showcase each of the 12 minerals we learned about. These books were created on the Book Creator app and the pages look amazing! You will get an email of the book after break after I show the final product to the students.

This week, the third grade began their bridges unit. Hillary and I have teamed up to extend the Brooklyn Bridge study into the science room. To start, we are investigating different bridge shapes. The students compared the strength of squares and triangles and then choose one shape to build an index card bridge. Many more mini engineering projects and investigations to come!

 

Music with Eyal