It’s been quite the week in third grade! With winter-time celebrations on their minds, third graders had trouble containing their excitement (who can blame them?!). Luckily, students managed to complete their academic work as well.
This week in reader’s workshop, third graders targeted work with homophones. We have been working to determine the difference between homophones, and know when to use them accurately in our writing. Noteworthy homophones we’ve practiced are: there, they’re and their, it’s and its, your and you’re, to, too and two… and many more! We will continue to target these the remainder of the year! Writer’s workshop this week was all about typing final copies of our Cursive: Yes or No? essays. Third graders developed and formatted a five-paragraph essay, focusing on editing their writing and adding explanations. Their work will be featured on our third grade bulletin board out in the hallway, so check it out if you have a chance! Social Studies this week centered on touring the Southeast region of the United States. Third graders took a virtual tour of cities like New Orleans, Memphis and Montgomery. They learned about important events in history like the Civil Rights Movement with Martin Luther King Jr. and Hurricane Katrina. Third graders also learned about the Southeast’s influence on food and music. When we return from winter break, we will engage in a study of important events and people involved in our country’s Civil Rights Movement. In math, we dove into Unit 4 of Bridges, focusing on telling time and solving elapsed time problems. Time-telling (specifically on an analog clock) can be a tricky skill to master. Third graders practiced on paper, with hand-held analog clocks, and even participated in a time-telling scavenger hunt. Check out pictures from our hunt below! We will continue practicing this skill next week, working more on elapsed time problems down to the minute. This week, we also learned the science behind snowflakes! We watched a short video about how they form, and read about the life of Wilson Bentley (the man responsible for discovering that no two snowflakes are alike). We then made our own snowflakes! We plan to decorate the classroom with them for the winter. 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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