This week I felt students really started diving into what third grade is all about. We are settling into the routines and learning lots! Take a peek into our week...
Math: Students are learning about division and how it relates to multiplication. We are working on solving word problems by reading the question carefully, drawing a picture to support our thinking, writing our answer in a complete sentence, and representing our answer in a number related sentence. We started basic division and multiplication facts! Ask your child a simple multiplication or division problem! See if they can figure it out! Literacy: We are working on setting up our reading lives to be the best readers possible. Students learned how to record their reading on their reading log and to read books like gold. We also took a quick day to see how authors leave clues in non-fiction writing to help us understand. Ask your child: What does it sound like to read a book like gold instead of reading like a curmudgeon? Writing: Students are still working on writing pieces of their choice. I am working very hard to get them to write for 30 minutes without stopping. I have been working my way through the class to meet with each student for a compliment conference. I want students to feel comfortable sharing their writing! Science: We spent more time this week talking about the stigma and pollen dusters in flowers. Students learned it takes pollen from another flower to get stuck to the stigma of a different flower in order to produce seeds. Students had the opportunity to replicate it by pollinating their flowers with coffee ground and baking flour. Students then determine if their flower was pollinated and if it could produce seeds. Students also brought in flowers that allowed us to examine the pollen dusters and stigmas. Students were able to see how each flower is unique just like we are as people. Ask your child: Did the flower you make get pollinated by both flowers? Would your flower produce seeds? How do you know? I hope you all had a great weekend and are enjoying the nice fall weather!
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