Coming up this week... Writing: Everyone has lots of ideas for writing in their notebooks now, and we have started writing some or our stories. This week, we'll learn how to zoom in on a small moment, or seed idea, and how to "explode the moment" by adding details and writing by showing, not telling. Reading: We'll learn and practice more reading strategies this week including asking questions, making predictions, and visualization. I'll read one of my favorite books called, The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg, to promote questioning and predicting. This is also a great book to encourage deeper thinking. Math: Most of the kiddos did well on our data analysis assessment. We will be going over any problems that students had difficulty with together so that they can understand the problem and correct mistakes. I'll work with students individually that need additional support with correcting/redoing problems. This week we will begin our 2nd unit on addition, subtraction, and place value up to 9,999. Our focus the first few days will be on understanding place value concepts including ordering and comparing numbers, composing & decomposing numbers, representing numbers on a number line, and describing the relationships found in our base 10 number system. Science: We have some catching up to do in science since we met with our buddies during science on Thursday and we had our eslot, (enrichment), during science on Friday due to the assembly. So, this week, we'll continue to learn about physical properties of matter and states of matter through investigations. Social Studies: We'll learn about what it means to be a good citizen Upcoming Events Thursday, September 15th: Third Grade Parent Night Highlights from Sept. 6-9Learning about Scientists After watching short videos about two famous scientists, students read scientist trading cards and recorded their new learning. Collecting Data and Working with Dot Plots and Graphs We had a great time collecting data! Students measured how far they could jump for a class dot plot, created frequency tables and dot plots in their notebook with data from their Dice Roll and Penny Decade activities, and read bar graphs with partners. Kinder Buddies We met our buddies for the first time on Thursday. First we helped our buddies complete a big buddy page and then helped them log on to the laptops. Eslot Activities
Friday afternoon third graders met with their eslot groups to continue their interest area activities. Below are a few pictures from the Caine's Arcade group and the magic group. Kiddos in the Caine's Arcade group are creating games/activities out of boxes to participate in the Global Box Challenge on Sept. 30th. We will be inviting kindergarten classes to play our games. Other groups have been cooking, painting, sculpting with clay, and coding. These groups were formed the second week of school based on interest surveys the kiddos completed.
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November 2019
Mrs. Swyers3rd Grade Teacher |