Hello third grade families, What a fantastic warm week we’ve had in third grade! We celebrated Valentine’s Day, wrote multiplication and division story problems, and worked on a monster writing project. We also learned more about main ideas in reader’s workshop, and participated in a variety of science experiments. A special thank you to those of you that helped out with our Valentine’s Day party on Tuesday! The third graders had a great time eating frozen yogurt and watching The Reef. In math this week, third graders were challenged to create their own multi-step multiplication and division story problems. Once students created and solved their own, they typed them on a Google Doc and printed them out. We will use the story problems as a station during math work time. It will be so fun to solve the problems that classmates have written! We also continued our study of multiplication and division operations, specifically focusing on arrays as well as variables within equations. In writing this week, third graders wrote about a Valentine’s Day monster of their own creation. Students drew their self-made monster and wrote a description of its appearance, diet, habitat, adaptations, and movements. Students then wrote a warning to community members, detailing what to do if the monster was seen in the neighborhood. Luckily, all monsters were relatively tame, so no worries there! In reader’s workshop this week, stations centered on determining the main idea of both fiction and non-fiction passages, then recognizing the details that support it. Third graders read about reading dogs (dogs that sit with students while they read aloud), and also learned how guide dogs are trained. Next week, our focus will be on context clues. Science this week was full of experiments! Third graders have been learning about skeletons for the past week, and put their knowledge to the test while dissecting owl pellets. Students were challenged to name the bones found within the pellets. Some groups were even able to assemble the skeletons of the small rodent bones found inside. Later in the week, we took our experimentation outside, where we opened up an abandoned wasp nest (thanks Brown family!). Check out the pictures below. Hopefully you aren’t squeamish! Reminder: Conferences are just around the corner! If you have not already done so, please sign up. If none of the provided times work with your schedule, contact me and we can work something out.
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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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