Third Grade Thoughts: Catching Up

We have been SO busy in third grade I have been neglecting this blog! Here are a few things we have been up to lately.

Reading: We are just finishing up our first reading unit: Building a Reading Life. This unit focused on building strong reading habits and reading for understanding. We read Stone Fox and talked about really thinking about what is going on in the story. We learned how to make predictions, ask great questions and tackle tricky words! Next up: Non-Fiction!

Writing: We are also just finishing our first writing unit. We have been writing personal narratives and stretching out those small moments stories! Next up: Writing informational pieces

Math: We are continuing to work through a multiplication unit! We have been building our strategy toolbox and have talked about different fact strategies to use when multiplying different numbers. We also have been practicing graphing and the different parts of a graph. Next up: Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction

Science: We are finishing up our first science unit about Forces and Interactions. We have pushed sheeps down a ramp in a jeep, we have explored with swinging pendulums and flicked ping pong balls and golf balls. To finish up our unit we will do a little exploring with magnets.

In addition to all this great learning:

We visited our Kindergarten buddies! We love reading with them! This time they showed us books they have in their book boxes! We got to revisit some favorite stories from Kindergarten.

We wrote encouraging letters as a third grade team to students in Puerto Rico. Summit Street School raised $350.00 to donate to Puerto Rico through our coin drive! Great work!

Thanks to Mrs. Hutton and all the parent volunteers that helped organize the Fun Run! We had a blast!

In Ms. Pacy's WIN group we built "bone bridges" this week using pipe cleaners and Q-tips! We only had a certain amount of materials and had to make a bridge longer than a piece of paper and that could hold 10 plastic pumpkins! We had a great conversation about different bridge designs after we tested all the designs!