Coming up this week... Writing: We'll continue to learn qualities for writing personal narratives including adding sensory details, showing instead of telling, and word choice. Later in the week students will choose one of their seed ideas, (small moment story), and begin a draft that they will revise and edit. Reading: This week we will focus on visualizing when reading and making inferences. To help students visualize, I'll read The Seashore Book, by Charlotte Zolotow, without showing the pictures and students will draw their visualization. Then I'll reread, asking students to make a movie in their mind and add sensory images that aren't in the text. Later in the week, we'll begin making inferences by using just photos and wordless books to gain an understanding of how readers use clues and background knowledge to make an inference. Math: Our focus this week will be on using estimating and rounding when solving addition problems. Also, we'll learn addition strategies such as using strip diagrams, expanded form, and modeling with base 10 blocks. Science: More matter this week! Students will design a foil boat that will hold the most pennies, test sink or float ability of an orange with and without the peel, and read about matter as we continue to investigate properties of matter. We'll have our first unit test on Friday. Social Studies: This week is Celebrate Freedom week so we will learn about the constitution. Upcoming Events October 10th-Conference Day Highlights from September 12-16Investigating Matter with Sink & Float and Balloon POP Investigating Properties of Matter Thinking About Seed Ideas! After learning how writers choose seed ideas, (small moments) to write about instead of giant watermelon topics like a trip to Virginia, we enjoyed eating a slice of watermelon. What a great way to help the kiddos remember to think about seed ideas! International Dot Day We read The Dot by Peter Reynolds and then participated in International Dot Day. Everyone had a great time creating art with all kinds of dots. Lots of choices were available including splatter painting dots, using different tools with paint to make dots, coffee filter dots, gluing dots, and even creating dot art using Google Drawings. There were a few students that joined in Twister game as another option. Using Base 10 Blocks to Learn about Place Value Measuring and Recording Temperature
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November 2019
Mrs. Swyers3rd Grade Teacher |