Hello Everyone, Happy Friday! It has been another busy week here in Room 29! In Literacy, we spent the week practicing our reader's theater folktale performances. In doing so, students practiced working cooperatively with their groups to put on the best performance possible! They also practiced reading their lines fluently and clearly. They were excited to perform their folktales for their classmates! We performed Little Red Hen, Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Jack and the Beanstalk. Here are some pictures of their performance: In Math, we continued our work with arrays and began to explore the idea of area. Students used square inch tiles to find the area of different sized rectangles. In doing this, they were able to connect their work with multiplication and arrays to finding area. We also spent some time practicing our multiplication facts. We discussed using different strategies to help with facts we don't know fluently yet (within 3-5 seconds). One helpful strategy is to start with a known/friendly fact and use it to help you solve the unknown fact.
In Writing, we were able to apply all of our knowledge on the elements of folktales to draft our first folktale adaptation! Students are working in groups to adapt the classic tale of Three Billy-Goats Gruff. They are turning out to be quite creative! Eventually, students will draft an adaptation of a folktale of their choosing independently. In Social Studies, we continued our work with chronological order and created timelines of our weekend. In Science, students learned how to differentiate between living and non-living things. Conferences start next week, so you will all have the chance to see some of the work your third graders have been completing! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend :) ~ Ms. Norris
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Hello Everyone, We have had such a busy first week of October! We kicked off our first Writing unit on folktales. Students will be writing variations of popular folktales or fairy tales in the next few weeks. To help prepare for this, we have spent time during Literacy reading different versions of the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood. While reading, students identified elements of a folktale such as setting, evil characters, character's wish, repetition and overall lesson. In both versions of the tale that we have read so far, students noticed that while some elements had changed, you could still tell they were based on the original tale. In Math, students had an opportunity to show what they have learned about multiplication on a short quiz. They continued to practice solving multiplication story problems and explore multiples or number 7-9. They also had a chance to practice their facts by playing multiplication top-it. In Social Studies, we learned about chronological order. We used our birthdays to put ourselves in a human timeline. Eventually, students will get to create timelines of their own personal history in a fun take home project. *More information to come* Students really enjoyed their time at the Arboretum on Wednesday's field trip! Guides led us through the grounds and helped us to learn more about different types of trees. Here are some pictures from the day! Today we had our first Creative Arts and Sciences program! We enjoyed a visit from Eric Olson, also known as "the tree guy" He taught the whole third grade about what trees need to survive and how biologists study trees. He even showed us how a biologist climbs a tree to get a closer look at it! He then visited our classroom, and students got to take a closer look at specimens such as fungi and salamanders.
Don't forget that they will be bringing home their Friday journals and will probably do a much better job of explaining the week's events to you than I did! Please write back to them if you have the time (they love it!) Have a wonderful three day weekend, everyone! ~ Ms. Norris |
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