Reading: This week we'll immerse ourselves in poetry as we wrap up fiction and move on to our next unit. I LOVE reading poetry, and I try to instill this love in the kiddos. So, we'll have lots of time to read a variety of poems and find favorites. As we read poems, we'll learn about elements of poetry and types of poetry including free verse, lyrical, narrative, and humorous.
Writing: Our personal narratives are finished and they are great! We'll write our final copies and "publish" our stories. Then, we will write a personal narrative for a district assessment before beginning our next unit on poetry. Since we will be reading poetry during our reading time, this will give us a few days to read poetry before we start writing our own poems. During our first few days of poetry writing, I'll read a portion of a text written about poetry for kids by Ralph Fletcher. In his book, he talks about the three pillars of poetry, emotion, imagery, and music (rhythm). We'll learn that poets use these to create a mood, paint a picture, and create rhythm. Math: We'll start the week reviewing place value concepts, data analysis, rounding, and strategies for addition and subtraction. On Tuesday, we'll take a district assessment that will will include concepts from our current unit as well as our first unit on data analysis. Then, we'll move on to multiplication. First, we'll focus on arrays and equal groups as well as how to use numbers and symbols to represent multiplication. This will be the first of several multiplication units throughout the year. In this unit, we will work on fives, tens, twos, fours, and eights facts. Science: We are wrapping up our changing states of matter and mixtures unit. We'll take the unit district assessment on Wednesday. Our next unit involves learning about forms of energy. Students will explore some common objects to determine the type of energy used to kick off the unit. This is always a big hit! Social Studies: This week we'll begin learning about good citizenship. Also, we'll start our PBL about conservation which will incorporate citizenship. Upcoming Events October 8-Fall Conferences (no school) October 9-No school for students October 22-International Children's Week begins October 24-Book Fair opens for sales
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November 2019
Mrs. Swyers3rd Grade Teacher |