This week our Nearby Nature parents taught us about trees. We made observations of trees, created leaf rubbings and interviewed trees. Many thanks to our Nearby Nature parents for a wonderful, engaging lesson about trees. Ask your child what is special about the tree "General Sherman".
We continued to learn about how we can search for clues in our reading to figure out what hard words mean. We practiced finding context clues and figurative language in Stone Fox. We also talked about questions we may have as we read and practiced revisiting earlier parts of the story and pushing ourselves to think and rethink about characters to imagine something about their motivations.
In Writer's Workshop, we continued to practice writing paragraphs this week. Next week, we will begin an informational writing unit. We will review non-fiction text features and begin writing our own information texts about a topic we are experts about.
We finished Unit 1 in Math this week and are moving into our second unit which will be an introduction to mulitiplication. Students will be solving problems that are embedded in different contexts and be invited to think of multiplication in different ways. They will make use of a variety of models for multiplication, including equal groups, arrays, the number line,and ratio tables.
We continued our learning about Shelburne history this week. We watch a video about the Eastern Woodlands and created a Venn Diagram comparing hunting from long ago with hunting today.
Finally, thank you to all of our parents for meeting with us for conferences this week. We appreciated the opportunity to share all of the terrific learning your children have already done in this first six weeks of school. We look forward to collaborating with all of you this year to make third grade a happy, productive and successful year for your children.
Have a terrific weekend,
Deb and Jenn
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