It’s been a fantastic week in 3rd grade! Students did a great job transitioning back into the school routine after Fall Break. It sounds like everyone had a fun and relaxing time! This week in Reader’s Workshop, our focus was on analyzing cause & effect relationships in stories. To start things off, we watched the Pixar short, For the Birds. While watching, third graders worked to determine how these cause/effect relationships impacted the characters in the story. This brought on discussions regarding character change and plot. We will continue learning more about these concepts into next week! We began a new math unit this week: Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction. The unit centers on rounding strategies and solving 2- and 3- digit addition/subtraction problems. This week, we learned all about rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. Specifically, we focused on why/how we use rounding in everyday life, and how we could use it to help solve complex problems. We will continue with this work next week, and also tackle strategies to use when solving multi-step word problems. In math, we are also ramping up our practice of multiplication facts. A station during our math block gives third graders an opportunity to practice their fact fluency in a number of different formats. I highly encourage third graders to practice their facts (0-12) at home whenever possible, as getting a handle on them now will be immensely helpful in the future! Third graders can access and practice their facts via resources uploaded onto our classroom website under the ‘student resources’ tab. This week also marked the start of a new written response strategy, RACE responses. In short, a RACE response is typically a paragraph in length and is a strategy implemented when a question asks for "evidence from the text." RACE responses are used in the upper grades, as well as on standardized tests. Students will continue practicing these responses in the classroom for the next couple of weeks, and eventually be assigned responses for homework through the remainder of the school year. Business:
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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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