Week 5

Another week has flown by in  third grade! Here’s a little glimpse at what we’ve been up to! :)

    In literature we have been continuing our book Wonder. We’ve been learning to make observations with our reading and have been taking notes on our “jot spots” in our literature journals. We also have been focusing on Auggie’s character. Traits about him and things we notice.

    In science we continued with our “Stormy Skies” unit and learned about types of clouds this week. We created a storm spotter’s guide and practiced looking at clouds trying to figure out what we saw. Ask your children what type of clouds are in the sky! :) They got pretty good at identifying them!

    In math we continue our work with adding/subtracting within 1,000. We’ve been perfecting our borrowing, carrying and precision with our math. Next week we will begin math focus groups. With all children not needing the same concepts, this will be a way to focus on just what your child needs!

    In social studies we continued our study through the northeast region and learned about New Hampshire this week. We learned about the capital city, two major waterways and two mountains!

    We were able to successfully implement a full rotation of Daily 5 this week as well. This is awesome! The kids rotated through stations, stayed on task and completed work. I was able to conference with readers.

     In writing we are continuing with our true stories. They currently are learning different ways to come up with ideas and how to draft stories before writing.

     If you didn’t notice, spelling words came home this week. Spelling groups are determined by a spelling inventory that I gave a couple weeks ago. After looking at the results from this I can see what spelling stage your child falls within and then can customize their spelling curriculum. We currently have 4 groups in third grade. I ask that you have your children study spelling words more than once a week. This will be necessary to learn the rule/pattern they are focusing on that week. We will be focusing on this once/twice a week in their small groups as well, but nightly practice will benefit them tremendously!

    Next week is a FOUR DAY WEEK. Please mark your calendars - no school on Friday! Teachers have an inservice day and then there is also no school the following Monday for Columbus Day.

    I hope that you and your families have a wonderful weekend!            ~Mrs. Haulk