Another toasty September week in the books, and third graders are still hard at work! This week, in addition to stretching their minds in the classroom, third graders had the opportunity to visit Z Space, a mobile classroom that travels throughout the Cherry Creek School District. While visiting Z Space, third graders had a chance to experiment with virtual reality applications. It was an awesome experience... We had tons of fun! In our own classroom, third graders worked on one last stoplight writing piece. Students planned, and wrote rough drafts final copies independently. Woo! All this was to gauge overall understanding of the paragraph writing process, and to provide a chance to show off independent skills. Next week, we will begin an opinion piece with the overarching question: Are trampoline parks safe?
We have officially concluded our first unit in math, and are moving onto our introduction to multiplication! Third graders started by analyzing groupings and drawing connections to how repeated addition is very much what multiplication is all about. We will continue with this next week. Reader's Workshop this week was all about making strong predictions and retelling a story. As readers, we make predictions without even noticing! Our goal this week was to notice, and also back up our predictions with explanations on why/how we thought something would happen. Retelling a story was also a teaching point this week. Often, when retelling a story, we feel the urge to talk about the whole thing, and try to incorporate every little detail. As readers, our goal is to only feature the main points, and engage in the retelling process to improve overall understanding. Social studies was all about famous Denver buildings this week. Third graders learned about the history of the Brown Palace, the D & F Tower, and Union Station (to name a few). We are officially prepared for our walking tour, and are excited to see these historic buildings in-person! That being said... Our Denver Field Trip is Monday, September 17th! Because we will be taking a walking tour of the city, third graders will need the following:
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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
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