Hello, readers! This week in third grade, students have been hard at work revising and typing their biography project final drafts. Next week, we will conclude the typing process and start gearing up for presentations! Information on this was sent home. You can also find a link to it below. During Reader's Workshop this week, third graders practiced using context clues to make inferences, read and discussed a fictional short story with their reading groups, and worked with soft /g/ and /c/ sounds in spelling. In math, we concluded our study of Unit 5 in Bridges, and took the post-assessment. Look for grade sheets headed home sometime next week on that! Our next unit focuses on Geometry. Wahoo! In social studies, we began studying the states in the Southwest region: Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. We will continue with this next week.
Separate from our academic learning, third graders worked with Dr. Waheed, our school psychologist, on executive functioning practices. Specifically, third graders learned about "time robbers," a way of identifying distractions that impact productivity throughout the day. Third graders were asked to determine their top three time robbers. We then graphed our data and sorted through it, looking at the answers that came up most often for us as a class. Our top three were: Socializing, feeling tired, and feeling hungry. Third graders brainstormed how to alleviate these time robbers, and came up with some great solutions! We even implemented a second snack time, from 12:15-12:25 to counteract hunger during the school day. Check out the tools we used throughout this process below. We will continue work with this in the coming weeks! 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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