Hope you are enjoying the cooler weather! We have a busy week ahead of us. See below for a glimpse of what we will be learning.
Reading: This week students will apply their inferencing skills to analyze characters in fiction stories. We'll dig deeper into theories about characters while noticing patterns in their actions and determining how a character changes. Students will work with their reading partner as they study and get to know characters throughout the week. Also, we'll learn that readers think about lessons a character learns to help determine the theme. Writing: We'll finish revising and editing our personal narrative drafts this week. Then students will write a final copy and "publish" their story. I hope to have a publishing celebration on Friday. As we continue to revise our drafts, we'll learn how to improve word choice by choosing vivid verbs, descriptive words, and specific nouns. Math: Our focus will be on place value, however we will continue to solve problems involving addition and subtraction. As we explore place value concepts, we'll compose and decompose numbers up to 9,999, describe the relationships in the base-10 place value system, represent numbers on a number line, and compare/order whole numbers using the symbols >, <, or =. Science: It's all about mixtures this week. We'll create a mixture by combining snack items and then separate the mixture to understand that physical properties stay the same when mixed together. Throughout the week, we'll observe different mixtures and explore ways to separate mixtures based on physical properties. We'll wrap up the unit by the end of the week, but will probably take the unit assessment the following week. Social studies: We didn't have much time for social studies last week so we'll continue learning about government this week. Upcoming Events October 8th- Fall Conferences (no school for students) October 9th- No school for students
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November 2019
Mrs. Swyers3rd Grade Teacher |