It’s been quite the week in third grade! This week, our focus has been on subtraction regrouping and finding patterns, reading comprehension checks, and writing well-organized paragraphs. This week in math, our focus was on tracking patterns, balancing equations, and solidifying subtraction regrouping strategies. One activity, School Fair Necklaces, challenged students to develop symmetrical patterns. The problem is below… can you find all the solutions?? In reader's workshop, we’ve been focused on comprehension checks and making predictions. While reading, third graders annotated their comprehension check-ins in their reader's notebooks. They were tasked with asking themselves the following 3 questions: Who is in this part? What just happened? Did something like this already happen, or is this new? The questions are meant to solidify understanding of characters and important events within a story. We also practiced all together with our current read aloud, Stone Fox. It’s a book with many cliffhangers… perfect for making predictions! During writer’s workshop, our focus continued to be on writing a well-organized paragraph. This week, third graders wrote a paragraph about their favorite special at school. Students learned how to incorporate a hook/bold beginning to start off their paragraphs. After all, we need to hook a reader’s attention! In social studies, third graders read about how Denver’s first settlers came to be. Students collaborated in small groups to create a visual representation of important historical events that led to the founding of Denver itself. Groups did a great job creating their representations and presenting them to the class! Next week, we will be working on multi-step word problems and equalities in math. Reader’s workshop will center on making predictions and inferring. In writing, we’ll continue work with stoplight paragraphs. Finally, Denver history will center on those that helped establish our great city! Comments are closed.
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Mrs. Minatta is a third grade teacher at Cottonwood Creek Elementary. See and read all about what third graders are up to throughout the school year! Archives
March 2021
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