More Words Come Alive!

Esprit Third Grade started off our week with another fun filled visit from our Flynn Visiting Artist,
Susannah!   This week we used our learning about elements of natural disasters to make connections to Fairy Tale characters and their traits.  We moved around the classroom like a tornado and hurricane in character as the Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.  We also became Red Riding Hood's Grandmother and moved with characteristics of a drought and a typical sunny day.  We also explored several other characters and made connections to a variety of weather events.  Can your child act out for you how Red Riding Hood's Grandmother if she possessed the same character traits as a drought?  Susannah will be back again in December to do more acting and movement with us!

 In Science, we spent some time graphing the data we collected during October. Although we collected data for humidity, precipitation, and temperature, we only graphed October's temperature.  We graphed our temperature data on a Line Plot, then made observations about trends in temperatures. We noticed that we had quite a few days in the 50s in October! We will be using this data in the future to compare and contrast temperatures in Shelburne with other areas of the country and the world.

During Writer's Workshop, we have been finishing up our non-fiction pieces and are now editing them.  We will be working toward publishing these pieces during the month of December.  Everyone has been working hard to include strong introductions and conclusions to their teaching pieces.  Next week, we will continue with the editing and revising process and work on adding nonfiction features to our writing, such as diagrams, labels, maps, and charts.





We have been practicing finding the main idea and details in non-fiction texts during Reader's Workshop.  As we are reading, we stop and think about what the section is mostly about or what the big idea is in each section.  We are really working hard to identify the main idea and then talk about it in our own words...not the author's words! This is something you could practice with your child as well at home when you are reading nonfiction.





In math, our focus has been on rounding two and three digit numbers to the nearest ten and rounding numbers to the nearest hundred.  Three new Work Places, Round Ball Tens, Round & Add Tens, and Round Ball Hundreds provided opportunities to practice this rounding skill.  We also discovered how rounding can help mathematicians determine the reasonableness of their answers when adding.  Ask your child about these new Work Places.

Our soap dishes have been fired and are looking beautiful.  Sherry Senior is now getting little bags for our team to fill with lavender.  So we will have those to sell at the Craft Fair in addition to the soap dishes and soap.  We are still looking for families to cover our booth from 12:00-1:00 and 1:00-2:00. Please visit our google doc and sign up if you are able to help our team out.

Lastly, if you are interested in happenings in our SCS Art Department, please visit their Facebook Page at:  https://www.facebook.com/ShelburneArt

Have a great weekend! Happy Thanksgiving!