Hello Third Grade Families!
Reader's Workshop: We are in the midst of a unit on reading nonfiction texts. The unit started with reading informational texts and focused on finding the main idea and supporting details. The second part of the unit will move into narrative nonfiction and biographies.
Writer's Workshop: We are also working within nonfiction writing about a topic we are an expert on! We will be publishing this piece of writing using Google Slides.
Math: We completed our unit on multiplication and are currently working in Unit 3 which focuses on multi digit addition and subtraction. Encourage your child to use a strategy that they are successful with. We are generally most successful with a number line!
Science: We are gearing up for our study of weather and natural hazards. This is always a favorite in third grade. We will be completing an engineering activity as part of this unit. More details to come in Friday Folders!
WIN Groups: Our first rotation of WIN groups will be wrapping up this week. We will move into a third week rotation of social emotional focused groups leading up to winter break.
Over the last few weeks....
We have been busy in third grade this fall!
We did a mini unit on genre! We "tasted" different books and tried to figure out what genre the book would fall into. We used clues like the cover, title, book description, pictures, and reading the first few pages.
We completed a mystery unit in Reader's Workshop. We started by having our very own mystery to solve: The Case of the Missing Elephant and Piggie Books. We had to use our clues and information to figure out what had happened!
We had some lovely weather for the Fun Run!
We have been enjoying having third grade guest readers! What great fluency practice!
We met our book buddies in Mrs. Hall's first grade class.
We practiced our expectations for the lunchroom!
It snowed! We have such a lovely winter view outside our classroom.
We disguised turkeys to escape being eaten on Thanksgiving during Third Grade Team time!
And right before break we took some time to thank adults in our building!
