Hello students and families!
We've had another great week in room 48! As I am planning for the next week of school before Thanksgiving, I am aware that some of you may be planning to start your vacations early. Please let me know if your child will miss any school days between now and before/after vacation. It would also be helpful if you know your travel plans for the December break.
Here is a look into our learning this week:
Spelling: We continued working with vowel and consonant suffixes this week. We also learned about exceptions to the 1-1-1 rule: words that end in "x" do not double the consonant. We practiced adding both vowel and consonant suffixes to 1-1-1 words.
Writing: Our small moment stories are really coming together! We worked on logging into GoogleDocs, editing, and rewriting our stories. We had teacher and partner conferences to help us edit our work. On Monday, we wrote 3 Leads, or story beginnings, and then chose our favorite one. We then determined the heart of our story and made sure to make it descriptive and engaging for the reader. Next, we learned about having an effective ending that wraps up the story. We also learned some computer skills and how to make paragraphs to indicate transitions or new speakers. Finally, we worked on cursive.
Reading: We started off the week by reading a passage and answering the following questions: (1) Is this a good title for the passage? (2) Who is the main character, and what do they learn? Then, we kicked off our unit about Making Inferences when we read. An inference = clues from the text + what we already know / prior knowledge / our schema. We read a poem and tried to infer the type of animal who was "speaking" in the poem, using clues like "I eat flies" and our schema that frogs eat insects. Next, we read The Sweetest Fig and made inferences about the characters, the plot, and the intriguing ending. Students enjoyed making inferences based on pictures, such as the one below:
We've had another great week in room 48! As I am planning for the next week of school before Thanksgiving, I am aware that some of you may be planning to start your vacations early. Please let me know if your child will miss any school days between now and before/after vacation. It would also be helpful if you know your travel plans for the December break.
Here is a look into our learning this week:
Spelling: We continued working with vowel and consonant suffixes this week. We also learned about exceptions to the 1-1-1 rule: words that end in "x" do not double the consonant. We practiced adding both vowel and consonant suffixes to 1-1-1 words.
Writing: Our small moment stories are really coming together! We worked on logging into GoogleDocs, editing, and rewriting our stories. We had teacher and partner conferences to help us edit our work. On Monday, we wrote 3 Leads, or story beginnings, and then chose our favorite one. We then determined the heart of our story and made sure to make it descriptive and engaging for the reader. Next, we learned about having an effective ending that wraps up the story. We also learned some computer skills and how to make paragraphs to indicate transitions or new speakers. Finally, we worked on cursive.
Reading: We started off the week by reading a passage and answering the following questions: (1) Is this a good title for the passage? (2) Who is the main character, and what do they learn? Then, we kicked off our unit about Making Inferences when we read. An inference = clues from the text + what we already know / prior knowledge / our schema. We read a poem and tried to infer the type of animal who was "speaking" in the poem, using clues like "I eat flies" and our schema that frogs eat insects. Next, we read The Sweetest Fig and made inferences about the characters, the plot, and the intriguing ending. Students enjoyed making inferences based on pictures, such as the one below:
We also listened to Enemy Pie and wrote responses that required us to make inferences based on clues from the text and our schema. Third graders are doing a wonderful job of making inferences!
Math: We continued working through problems and ratio tables in The Big Dinner unit. We completed our tables about the cost per pound of apples and carrots, and had a Math Congress to discuss different strategies. Then, we used the same strategies to determine the cost per pound of potatoes.
After calculating all of the different ratio tables, students worked to find out the actual cost per item. Then, we added the cost of each type of food (4 lbs. carrots + 24 lbs. turkey and so on) to get the total cost of buying the groceries. Finally, we worked on calculating the cooking time for the 24-lb. turkey. Students did a wonderful job presenting their thinking and explaining how they discovered patterns, proved their answers, and utilized effective strategies for adding equal groups.
We also worked on multiplication strings and some of us worked on puzzles at a fun website: https://solveme.edc.org.
There are more photos from math and writer's workshop below. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your weekend!
-Mrs. K
Math: We continued working through problems and ratio tables in The Big Dinner unit. We completed our tables about the cost per pound of apples and carrots, and had a Math Congress to discuss different strategies. Then, we used the same strategies to determine the cost per pound of potatoes.
After calculating all of the different ratio tables, students worked to find out the actual cost per item. Then, we added the cost of each type of food (4 lbs. carrots + 24 lbs. turkey and so on) to get the total cost of buying the groceries. Finally, we worked on calculating the cooking time for the 24-lb. turkey. Students did a wonderful job presenting their thinking and explaining how they discovered patterns, proved their answers, and utilized effective strategies for adding equal groups.
We also worked on multiplication strings and some of us worked on puzzles at a fun website: https://solveme.edc.org.
There are more photos from math and writer's workshop below. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your weekend!
-Mrs. K