Important Dates/Information
-Canned Food Drive until Thursday 12/8 we are collecting food for the Elks Lodge (please no glass or expired/perishable foods) The class with the most food collected gets a pizza party! Donation Requests As some of you may have heard, we changed up our seating arrangement in class. Included in this new arrangement is a standing table and a no-table table (just chairs and clipboards or room to work on the ground). So far, this arrangement has been amazing in meeting the needs of all the third graders. Some of us just need to stand or sprawl out on the carpet to learn! To help us, we could use a donation of one stool about 2 feet tall as well as three lap desks. I've included a picture of the type of lap desk we are looking for. Thank you! If you are able to donate, please let me know first before bringing it to school! Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes -Home Connections 4 will be coming home on Monday. We are continuing to work on addition/subtraction fluency and this assignment will help build subtraction fluency Math In math this week, we focused on perimeter and area. We found the perimeter of different quadrilaterals and different objects around the room. Then, we expanded our knowledge into area and found the area of different quadrilaterals using one inch squares. We will continue to work on area throughout this week. Ask your student to define perimeter and area Listen to your student explain how we found the area of different quadrilaterals Extend the learning by calculating the perimeter and area of a room in the house Literacy We spent a lot of literacy this week reading about Portland bridges that we picked to study. Students requested their top 3 bridges and I assigned them keeping in mind their choice, but also trying to cover as many different Portland bridges as possible. We will be doing a close reading of these articles and then writing about the bridges for a class book. So far, we have read the article twice. We found bridge terms we thought were important to know and other vocabulary words that we then defined and wrote down in our journals as a whole class. Ask your student which Portland bridge they were assigned to study Listen to your student explain what type of bridge it is and one interesting thing they have learned so far Extend the learning by visiting their bridge together as a family Expedition While much of our expedition time has been focused around reading about our individual bridges, we also found time to revisit the Astoria-Megler Bridge. We completed a reading as a whole class that described the challenges of building the bridge. Then, we worked on understanding the main idea of the text and found key details that supported the main idea. Many of us were fascinated to hear about the tales of building the bridge! Ask your student what happened as they were building the bridge due to the Thanksgiving Day Storm Listen to your student describe why engineers were hesitant to build the bridge in the first place Extend the learning by reading about how other bridges around the world were built Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
April 2017
Categories |