We made it our first entire week through school! The students are settling in and learning the routines of the classroom.
Thank you so much for those of you who made it to Curriculum Night! I appreciate you taking your time to see what is in store this year for your child. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions! Here is what we did this week: Math: Multiplication was slowly introduced to students. They learned to turn a repeated addition sentence into a multiplication sentence. Today they had the opportunity to play Slides and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders) or work on another activity with dice to practice their multiplication skills. The students came home with a quiz today assessing how they did on the first few lessons we have learned. Please take a look at it! Ask them to solve a simple multiplication sentence such 3 x 2 or 4 x 5. They are starting to get the hang of it! Literacy: We are practicing building our reading stamina and working our way up to 30 minutes. We finished our first read aloud book and started our second book already. We are reading an OBOB book. Third grade students can compete in OBOB this year! There is a series of books they should read if they are interested in competing! We haven’t gotten very far into our book though! Students also took a pre-assessment to see how they did answering questions to a story. Writing: We are working on building our writing stamina. We talked about different types of stories or types of writing authors publish. We also discussed problems we as writers may come across as we are working on our writing pieces. Students brainstormed solutions to those problems. Ask your child: What are you currently writing about in class? Are you making a graphic novel, comic strip, writing fiction or some type of book? Science: We finished up our Me Posters and began looking at how flowers are created and what it takes to create the seed of a flower. Students watched a series of short clips about flowers and learned about the pollinator and “sticky” stigma parts. They learned that in order for seeds to be produced, a flower’s stigma must be pollinated with another flower’s pollen. In this case those two flowers or “parents” are what produce seeds (or flower babies). Next week we will create a flower and pollinate them ourselves using coffee grounds and flour as pollen! I told the kiddos they could bring in a flower next week so we can observe all the different pollinators and stigmas on different flowers. If they ask you to bring a flower on Monday, it is not because I personally need them, ha! ;) We are using them for science purposes! Ask your child: What needs to happen in order for a flower to produce seeds? Answer: The stigma needs to be pollinated by another flower.
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