We had lots to do this week despite it being a four day week! Students were busy learning and cheering on our OBOB Team. Congrats to the Ferocious Falcons for taking first place in third grade! Woo hoo! Math: We spent more time working on area. I gave students a scenario including two house floor plans. They were required to find the square footage of both floor plans and determine which house had more square footage. It required LOTS of math! Many of them figured it out! Go third graders! Literacy: Students continued to meet in their book clubs and read through their book club book. They are working to track their main character's journey, paying close attention to the problems they face and how they react to them. Students determined what the biggest problem their character has faced so far in their book and if the problem is getting worse. Writing: We had the opportunity to start cursive. I am seeing the cursive all over their writing pieces now. So cute! They are really enjoying learning something so exciting! As well as cursive, we started our writing inquiry on opinion/persuasive pieces. Students came up with a list of issues they are aware of around the school. They determined the one that needs the most fixing is how the library and technology passes are distributed in the morning. They decided the system is unfair to many of the students. They wrote their topic sentences and supported them with examples and reasons. Social Studies: We started on our PYP Theme: Sharing the Planet! Students were posed the question, "What is a Region?". Each day they are receiving clues they must piece together to help them understand what a region is or what makes up a region (SHHH don't tell them!). They were given six different posters with a variety of pictures on them. The pictures were organized in a certain way but students were not told how they were organized. They went around and made observations about what they saw.
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I apologize I haven't been very good at updating this weekly! Here is what we are learning in our classroom: Math: We are working on finding the area of different rectangles. We have also taken a peek into perimeter as well. It is hard for students to differentiate between the two so any conversations you can have at home will only help them get a better idea of what they are. Students are also revisiting the distributive property (another difficult concept). We took a day to focus on how the distributive property helps us solve larger multiplication sentences by using two smaller multiplication sentences. For example: 13 x 9 could be broken up into 10 x 9 and 3 x 9 and then added together to get 117. Literacy: We are working through non-fiction books looking at the main character closely. Students finished studying their main character found in their personal book. They had to recreate the image of their character based on information from their book. When the flaps are opened, students had to describe their character's personality. Last week we started a new bend. Students are in book clubs. We started talking about how a book follows a mountain structure. The characters faces a major problem and/or smaller problems and then when they reach the climax of the story (or the biggest problem) there eventually is a way the character resolves the issues (resolution). Writing: We began our journey through writing opinion pieces. We read Hey, Little Ant where the little boy and ant in the story are debating back and forth whether or not the boy should squish or save the ant. The students had to take a stance on what the little boy should do: squish or save the ant. The students had a friendly debate around this topic. I was extremely impressed by how well they did this. They enjoyed the activity! We then sat down as a class decided what issues there were around Hiteon. They came up with everything from bullying, to wanting more specials, to behavior at lunch, but what they were really passionate about was how unfair the process of handing out technology and library passes in the morning was done. A handful of students can go to the library or tech lab in the morning if they are chosen. Students in the classroom were mentioning how it is always the same students who receive the pass or students who ride the bus never have an opportunity. After deciding on this issue being the one they are going to write opinion pieces they had to decide who their audience was. They said that our administrators and specialist teachers who hand the passes out are the people who need to hear about this issue and solutions to change the process. They decided they wanted to present this information in a powerpoint and a skit to share their feelings around this issue. Stay tuned to how this turns out! I can't wait! Social Studies: We finished out PYP Theme "How We Organize Ourselves" and our study of maps. Students completed an activity given a scenario. The scenario was: We are taking a class field trip to Disneyland. We will be taking the max train from the Beaverton Transit Center all the way to the airport. You must plan accordingly so we do not miss our flight. Students did a great job studying a map of the MAX while making sure we checked in at the right ticket counter, went through the correct security gate, and made sure we arrived in the right terminal at the right gate. It was such a fun way to see them use their map skills they had learned throughout our study on How We Organize Ourselves. IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE THIS YET FOLLOW HITEON PYP ON FACEBOOK!!!
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Sept. 14th- First Day of Online Learning
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