What a busy and exciting week! Our Halloween parade and party on Wednesday was so much fun for the kids. Thank you to all the families that sent in snacks, drinks, plates, and napkins for our celebration. I know that I saw many of you with cameras during and after the parade. If any of you got any great shots of the class I would love for you to email them to me so that I can include them in our yearbook page.
Since next Tuesday, November 6th is Election Day, the third grade classes will be participating in center activities that will teach them more about the election process as well as what it takes to be president of the United States. Be sure to ask your son or daughter to show you their Election Day folder and explain to you what they learned from the various activities on Tuesday.
Language Arts/Writing:
For the past couple of weeks students worked hard at writing a description of a Haunted House as if they were trying to sell it. They turned out really well and are currently on display in room 14. I encourage you to stop by the classroom and take a look at some wonderful examples of descriptive writing. In the coming weeks we will be shifting our focus on writing during workshop time to writing summaries. Students will learning and practicing the process for writing summaries for both fiction and non-fiction pieces of writing.
We will also be resuming our normal spelling schedule for the upcoming week. Please take the time each evening to remind your child to proofread all their work. I have been seeing a lot of errors on their spelling homework lately that could have been fixed had they checked their work once it was completed. Thank you for your help with reminding them to do this at home.
Reading:
Students have been learning all about non-fiction text features as we read our National Geographic Explorer magazines. We will also be working on the inferring strategy used while reading fiction pieces.
Math:
We will be wrapping up our unit on multiplication this upcoming week and students should expect to take a unit test next Friday (11/9). The next unit that we will be working on will be on Measurement and Geometry skills.
In class I have been talking a great deal with students about the importance of showing all their work and thought processes while completing their math assignments. This is most import when they are solving word problems. I am not as interested in the answer to a problem as I am about the process they used to solve the problem. Please help me by encouraging and reminding your children to use correct labels while solving problems and to explain their thinking fully as well on their math homework.
Science:
We are also about to wrap up our first Science unit of the year (Matter and Energy). I have been assessing students as we go and I will be collecting and grading their science notebooks sometime next week. Between units we will be focusing on our drug and alcohol awareness program, Too Good For Drugs. We will begin the next science unit, Structures of Life, the last week of November.
Social Studies:
We are wrapping up yet another unit in social studies right now. Students have worked to create posters that show what they have learning about different geographical features and resources found in the four main regions in California. They are also currently working on writing a paragraph describing a geographical feature found in their region. We will be starting the next unit later this month on California Indians.
Please be sure to read this week's Dragon Dispatch.
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Have a great weekend!
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