October

Hello Third Grade Families!

Upcoming Dates
October 18th: Conferences
October 19th: No School
October 23rd: Pasta Dinner
October 26th: Fun Run

For those of you who follow us on Instagram know that we have had a busy first few weeks of October.

Math: We have started the second unit in Bridges which focuses on building visual strategies for multiplication. We have been organizing various items like stamps and dog toys into arrays. We took the opportunity to build even more arrays in our Array City!

We are moving into using proportional reasoning in multiplication. We did an exploration using a seascape and Chloe the clownfish. We know that Chloe the clownfish is 4 inches and the sea anemone is twice as long as Chloe so it must be 8 inches!

Lastly, we have been building cube trains, making multiples strips, and skip counting to build our understanding of multiples and factors.

We continue to enjoy our well earned choice time! I am continually impressed by the creativity in our classroom! Check out the telephone and record player made with Legos! 

Thank you to all the families that joined us at Indian Brook. We thoroughly enjoyed Nature Friendly Friday. We will be visiting Indian Brook two additional times this year to see the same areas in different seasons. 

Literacy: We are finishing up our first reading unit with a quick study of genre. We did a little book tasting today to dive into different genres of books. 

We are also finishing up our first writing unit: personal narratives!