Dear Families,
We had a BUSY, BUSY, BUSY week here in 3rd grade!! Students were circus performers, pumpkin pickers, and flexible mathematicians!
Reading
This week we focused on comprehension. We know that as readers, its our job to make sure that we are always checking in with our characters to make sure we know exactly what they're up to. We decided that readers give themselves a comprehension check by asking...
Students practiced their comprehension checks by recording their answers in our reading notebooks several times throughout reading workshop this week.
Writing
This week we started our journey of revising our small moment stories. We know that good authors hook their readers with a STRONG lead. There are many different ways to create a strong lead, but the 5 we talked about were..
Here is the example of each lead for ONE story we came up with as a class...
We had a BUSY, BUSY, BUSY week here in 3rd grade!! Students were circus performers, pumpkin pickers, and flexible mathematicians!
Reading
This week we focused on comprehension. We know that as readers, its our job to make sure that we are always checking in with our characters to make sure we know exactly what they're up to. We decided that readers give themselves a comprehension check by asking...
- Do I know who is in this part?
- Do I know what just happened?
- Does this part fit with something that already happened? Or is it new information?
Students practiced their comprehension checks by recording their answers in our reading notebooks several times throughout reading workshop this week.
Writing
This week we started our journey of revising our small moment stories. We know that good authors hook their readers with a STRONG lead. There are many different ways to create a strong lead, but the 5 we talked about were..
- Dialogue
- Onomatopoeia
- Asking a question
- Action
- Flashback
Here is the example of each lead for ONE story we came up with as a class...
Math
This week we finished our first unit! We also started to learn about liquid volume. We discuss questions like...
What is the difference between a quart and a gallon?
How do quarts and gallons relate to liters and milliliters?
What is the Metric System?
How many milliliters are in a liter?
We will be collecting milliliters each day to see how many liters we will have by the end of the month!
This week we finished our first unit! We also started to learn about liquid volume. We discuss questions like...
What is the difference between a quart and a gallon?
How do quarts and gallons relate to liters and milliliters?
What is the Metric System?
How many milliliters are in a liter?
We will be collecting milliliters each day to see how many liters we will have by the end of the month!
A few reminders...
Have a wonderful weekend,
Deirdre Phalon
- Orchard's CIRCUS performance is next Thursday, October 13th, 6pm at SBHS! Students should be there at 5:45. A note will be going home on Monday to get a relative head count of how many students will be able to attend, so please keep an eye out for that in your student's folder.
- Please send headphones or ear buds in with your student for our Chromebook times. These will stay at school.
- If your student needs a healthy snack from school please let me know.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Deirdre Phalon