You may have heard your student talking about "Terrific Tickets" in our classroom. Terrific Tickets are small slips of paper given to students when Mrs. Minatta notices a student ROAR. Sometimes, the act is small, like walking with a purpose in the hallway. Most often, tickets are given to students that are helping others, demonstrating a growth mindset, or simply doing a great job! When given a ticket, third graders put their name on it and turn it into the ticket bin. Every Friday, five lucky winners are drawn from the bin and receive a small prize. They are also entered into the school-wide ROAR drawing that happens on Friday mornings. Early on, third graders figured out that the more tickets you have in the bin, the more likely you are to win... Such mathematicians! So far, this positive reinforcement has been a great success. We will continue to use it throughout the school year! This week in third grade, students worked hard at finishing the first drafts of their informational pieces. Students chose to write about a wide range of topics from elephants and zebras, to Minecraft and Pokemon. Students completed writers' checklists, analyzing what they had already written and revising it to be even better! Next week, we will continue the revising and editing process. Students will be challenged to add detail, check spelling, and edit conventions. Reading this week was a treat! In addition to participating in our Reader's Workshop here in the classroom, third graders went to the library, where they received instruction from Mrs. Sianko. Third graders learned more about book genres and how to find them within the walls of our fantastic library. Next week, we will be focused on the traits of an active reader--specifically, how inferences help our understanding and comprehension of text. We have almost reached the end of Unit 1 in math, and will soon be transitioning on to Unit 2: Introduction to Multiplication. Many students are quite excited about this! Look out for information on Unit 2 coming home with your student on Tuesday. In Social Studies this week, we started our study of regions of the United States. Students had the chance to explore various maps of the United States including ones depicting population, elevation, and annual rainfall. To feel more comfortable and better about their map reading skills, third graders partnered up and completed a map scavenger hunt. It was great seeing them work together! They were quite the experts by the end of our "hunt." 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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