New Homework Links for Word Study HERE
A couple new popular sites with students from class:
How to say really big numbers
Virtual Base Ten Blocks (just click Manipulatives>Base Ten Blocks)
Families of 3-Schaefer,
This week our entire third grade continued with our Kindness & Justice Challenge. Although the "challenge" officially ends on Friday, our goal is to continue to be kind and fair to others.
Another thing we are working on in class is patience with our classmates and noticing what each person has to offer to our classroom community. We read a great book, "Spoon", with a message that we each are special and have something great to offer to our classroom. We thought about what makes us each special, what something is we're each good at, and how we each can help one another. We wrote our ideas to make a "tossed salad of talents" - ask your child all about it!
Have a great weekend,
Meredith
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READING WORKSHOP:
• We began learning about biographies and author's purpose (we're thinking, "What's the reason the author wrote this?")
• New reading partnerships - ask your child all about the book they're reading!
• Note-taking skills - this is new to third graders. We're focusing on writing meaningful, important notes and dates from our biographies. We're practicing as a class with a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
WRITING WORKSHOP:
• We used the laptops this week to publish our Top Stories of 2011. We focused on how to indent paragraphs, space after punctuation, as well as the importance of double checking our work before printing it.
• On Friday, we will share out our Top Stories of 2011 articles with classmates before moving on to a new unit of study next week.
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MATH:
• Place value continues. Decimals were introduced this week. This is something new for third graders. We tried to think about decimals as money (we only go out 2 decimal places in 3rd grade) and learned the terms "tenths" and "hundredths".
• Students are encouraged to practice math skills a few minutes a night at this website: www.ixl.com/signin/gcsd
We will also continue using this at school.
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SOCIAL STUDIES:
• Kindness & Justice words this week: non-violence, tolerance, respect, responsibility, perseverance.
• We wrapped up our Civil Rights learning this week. Next week we will begin a unit of study of scientific method with a variety of hands-on experiments! |
TECHNOLOGY:
For reading blog: www.wikispaces.com
For math: www.ixl.com/signin/gcsd
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
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CONTACTING ME:
Email or call anytime and I will get back to you as soon as I can!
schaeferm@guilderlandschools.org
357-2770 x4100 |
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