Third Grade Parent Night

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Third Grade Parent Night
November 8, 2012

• Mrs. Crichton
• Mrs. Powell
• Miss Richardson

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Math

• Basic Facts
• Addition
• Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Fact Families

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Basic Word Problem

• Jenny bought 4 goldfish. Her brother Jimmy bought
  twice as many goldfish. How many goldfish did
  Jimmy buy?

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Multi-Step Word Problem

• Jenny bought 4 goldfish. Her brother Jimmy bought
  twice as many goldfish. If the goldfish cost 5
  each, how much money did Jimmy spend?

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Extraneous Information

• At the store, goldfish cost 5 each and beta fish
  cost 3 each. Jimmy decided to buy five
  goldfish. How much money did Jimmy spend?

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How can I help?

• Have your child double check their homework
  before you look over it
• When working with your child, and ask them
• What is this problem asking you to do?
• Which type of problem is this (addition,
  subtraction, multiplication, division, ect.)?
• Can the problem be solved in one step, or will
  you need to complete more than one step?

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Hundreds Chart

• In your packet
• Uses
• Addition (To the right and down, number gets
  bigger)
• Subtraction (To the left and up, number gets
  smaller)
• Estimation (4 or less, stays the same 5 or more,
  level up)

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Multiplication Chart

• Factors (along the top and side)
• Products (where the factors meet)
• Remember it is so important for your child to
  memorize the facts!

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Learning is fun!

• There are great math games that can be played
  using a deck of cards or dice.
• A handout of math games to play with a deck of
  cards has been placed in your packet
• Dice Games

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Helpful Websites

• Math
• www.firstinmath.com
• www.multiplication.com
• www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
• http//sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm
• Science
• www.kleinisd.takscopes.com/login
• http//sheppardsoftware.com/science.htm
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/

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Reading Strategies

• Connections (Background Knowledge)
• Questioning
• Inferring
• Predict and Set a Purpose
• Visualize
• Summarize
• Story Structure

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Connections (Background Knowledge)

• Text to Self finding something that is
  connected to my own life
• Text to Text finding something that is
  connected to other book.
• Text to World finding something that is
  connected to things in your world.

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Questioning

• What questions help me make sense of my reading?
• What do you wonder?
• What might happen next?
• How will the story end?
• Why did the author write this story?
• What does the author mean?

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Inferring

• What do you infer?
• What do I already know?
• Which text clues are important?
• What is the author trying to present?
• I can put all the clues together and figure out.

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Predict and Set a Purpose

• What is my purpose for reading?
• What do I already know?
• What do I think will probably happen?
• Was my prediction correct?
• How has my thinking changed?

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Visualize

• Which details create pictures in my mind?
• What do I already know?
• What sensory language is the author using?
• How can my senses put me in the story?
• I can see
• I can hear
• I can feel
• I can smell

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Summarize

• Beginning
• Middle
• End
• Summary combine the beginning, middle and end
  (B-M-E) to form the summary of the story.

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Story Structure

• Setting (When and Where the story takes place).
• Characters (inside and outside character
  traits, does the character change in the story?)
• Plot order of events story problem and
  solution

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Websites.

• www.kidbiz3000.com
• Username/Password is student id
• www.sheppardsoftware.com
• www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
• Username/Password is sudent id
• www.tumblebooks.com/library
• www.pebblego.com
• www.starfall.com
• Username kreinhop / password wolfpack