It has been a busy week in third grade, with so much going on! Whether is was doing endangered animal research, analyzing theme within fiction and nonfiction pieces, or learning about mass and volume.... Third graders were having fun while doing it! This week, third graders received their endangered animal assignments for our next writing project. Students have been tasked with researching their animal, focusing on its appearance, habitat, and diet. Third graders also must determine why the animal is considered 'endangered' and determine ways the animals can be saved from extinction. This week, third graders engaged in the research process. They used Chromebooks to find information and recorded their notes on paper. We will continue with this process next week! Our project will eventually become a 5-6 paragraph research report, and we will be using other technology resources to present our animals to the class. In reading this week, our focus was on reviewing main idea and theme. To do this, we read the book, Here We Are. We then talked about the main idea vs. themes of the story. We also read a Storyworks Jr. article titled, "Brothers, Best Pals, Teammates." Both texts had overlapping themes of kindness, living life to the fullest, and treating everyone with respect. Third graders noticed that even though the article we read was nonfiction, it still had underlying themes (typically reserved for fictional text). What a great learning opportunity! In math, we continued our work with measurement, this time focusing on mass, volume and length. Students experimented with the following units of measure: grams, kilograms, milliliters, liters, centimeters and meters. Third graders had a particularly good time using our balance scales to predict and measure the mass of different objects around our classroom. Next week, our work will primarily be with unit fractions. We will determine equivalency, compare size, and learn how we use fractions in everyday life. 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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