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-Thursday November 17 to Friday November 18 Fort Stevens Overnight **look out for more information (itinerary, yurt groups, meals, etc) later this week! -No School: Wednesday 11/9, Thursday 11/10, Friday 11/11 Homework for this week: -Read each night for at least 20 minutes **If you chaperoned either the Nature Park or Bridge Tour, please send me any pictures you took. I am trying to put together a gallery on the website. Thank you! Math We focused on two different areas in math this week: continuing our geometry unit as well as categorizing and adding to our bridge graph. As we looked at our bridge data, we wanted to determine which of the three different bridge types held up the most weight. We thought about our first prototype designs and categorized them into either a suspension, beam/girder, or arch bridge. This allowed us to make a new graph with a key that depicts bridge type and weight held. In geometry, we made our own set of Tangrams using just one square! We learned new math vocabulary such as congruent, trapezoid, and parallelogram. Ask your student to describe how we made our own set of Tangrams Listen to your student explain what a trapezoid or parallelogram is Extend the learning by identifying different shapes around the house Literacy We spent literacy time this week with a combination of working on writing and reading to self. Many of the third graders are very invested in different stories that they are writing. We finished up our prewriting process on the St. Johns Bridge and came up with different creative stories about what the bridge might want to tell its reader. A couple examples were that the St. Johns might say the cars tickle its back or that it is jealous of the Steel Bridge for how unique it is. We will soon begin the process of researching and writing about a bridge of our choice. Ask your student what creative story they came up with from the perspective of the St. Johns Bridge Listen to your student describe what has happened so far in our new read aloud book called "Woof" by Spencer Quinn (an OBOB book!) Extend the learning by practicing writing from the perspective of an object at home Expedition Our Portland Bridge Tour was AMAZING! Thank you to all of you for quickly signing the permission slip form, we all loved the opportunity to go inside the operator tower of the Morrison Bridge! We saw the Morrison and Hawthorne lift up as well as learned about the unique qualities of the Steel and Tilikum Crossing. We did quite a bit of walking and I am so proud of how well we all did and how we represented City View. We brought our excitement back into the classroom to discuss what we learned and the three different types of movable bridges. Ms. Stefanie taught a lesson on sorting the Portland Bridges into different categories. Ask your student to tell you their favorite part of the Portland Bridge Tour Listen to your student explain the three different types of movable bridges (bascule, vertical lift, and swing) Extend the learning by watching the following video on the Portland Bridges as a family (it is one of our favorites!) Have your student discuss the structure of the bridges https://youtu.be/-iiSVOXjpxQ Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
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