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Mr. Martins Grade 3 Family Communication This Week, the Architects will: Practice supporting open response questions with clear ideas and text evidence. Practice identifying fractions of , 1/3, , and 1/6 on a number line, hexagon, rectangle, and/or circle and show how you know. Use ruler and other measuring tools to identify measurements to nearest inch or centimeter. Multiply and divide with the 7, 8, and 9 Fact Families. Read poetry to identify themes or lessons learned. Identify the correct homographs in a sentence. Identify adverbs and adjectives in selected text. Use adjectives and figurative language in compositions.

3/19/2013

Congrats to Jayro Billingsley on scoring 1000 points in First in Math! He is a Math Super Star!!!

For Your Information: Our English Language Arts MCAS is scheduled for March 26th & 27th and begins at 10:00 a.m. Students are expected to come to school on time and be prepared to demonstrate their best abilities on this mandated state test. I am sending home a copy of the MCAS Practice Test with feedback on how your son did on it. Please make this time this week to talk about his thinking on the reading test. I will also send home another practice test that you can do with him at home. The goal is for your son to achieve Proficient or Advanced. He has all the tools he needs to make it come true. Please make sure your son is well-rested and eat healthily and hears words of encouragement from his family and friends. Higginson-Lewis Third Graders Captivates Discovering Justice Attendees with Freedom. Mr. Wise, Higginson-Lewis Performing Arts Teacher, wrote and directed Freedom with eight talented third graders on March 14th at a Discovering Justice event celebrating Superintendent Dr. Carol Johnson. Yonis Adan, Isaias Huembas-Zelaya, and Ethaniel Zayas were three of the performers who took the DJ crowd by storm!

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Our Breakfast of Champions will take place on April 12th from 9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Again we will acknowledge your sons great academic and behavioral achievements at this event. We would appreciate your support in bringing in great breakfast treats for this event. Report Cards will be given at the BOC. However, we will not host conferences during this event!

We are hosting a free Acceleration Academy during Spring Break (April 15th thru 19th). Applications were sent home last week. Did you receive it?

Learning By Design in Massachusetts and The Boston Society of Architects have joined together again for KidsBuild! to be held at BSA Space on Saturday April 6th2013. Guided by designers and architects, families will choose a construction site from a fictional city grid, design and build a building, and be awarded a certificate of occupancy from the City building inspectors. KidsBuild! lets kids formulate their ideas about architecture, design and construction as they build a city from the ground up. KidsBuild! is designed for children ages 5 13. A maximum ratio of 3 children per 1 adult will be required. Tickets are free. Families members will work together to build a design for 1 site in the city. When choosing a registration time, indicate the number of people in your group. Registration is accepted at 30 minute intervals from 10 am - 2:30 pm. Program completion time varies but families should allow 2 hours to complete the building process. For more information on KidsBuild! go to www.kidsbuild.org BSA Space is one block from South Station. Enter through the BSA Space entrance and follow the signs for KidsBuild! Photographs will be taken at KidsBuild! to share the city with others. We ask all families to sign a photo release when checking in at the event.

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How Can You Help Your Child This Week?

Please review your sons homework each night, regardless of the after school program he may attend. Simply taking ten minutes to ask him to talk about his work will be a great support. It is also important that your son brings the homework back to school. 25% of your sons grades come from successful completion and turning in of homework! Have your son read to you or a sibling for 20 to 30 minutes. Can he read 100 words or more a minute fluently? Can he discuss what he has read in detail? Spend time talking with your son about how measures things in inches and centimeters. Its not always about the correct answer. The most important learning comes when he can talk about how he arrived at an answer. Have your son write out or read out a paragraph from a book and identify the nouns, verbs, and adjectives in it. Make it a game. Boys love to be competitive. Please spend ten to fifteen minutes just reviewing the homework with him to make sure he understands what he is doing. If you would like your son to pick up his grades in reading, writing, science, or mathematics, request extra assignments. If he works hard and does well, he will be rewarded! Graded Items from last week: Fractions Quiz (Wednesday) Identify nouns, verbs, and adjectives in a passage.(Friday) Writing Prompt (Week long unit study) due Friday Social Studies Notebook Check on Friday & African Kingdoms Student ___________________________________________________ Last week, your son turned in ___________ out of ____________ homework assignments. Comments/Questions to Mr. Martin

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