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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