We had a fantastic Friday!
We did a math check-up over money today. A few are still struggling. We also did a few addition and subtraction problems to review.
We worked with theme and main idea today. Have your child discuss the differences with you.
We also watched a video for social studies about Martin Luther King.
Have a great weekend!
We had another great day. I had a great training yesterday, but was very glad to be back in the classroom.
We worked on reading a passage, using context clues, making inferences, and locating answers in the passage. We also did some vocabulary practice.
We continued with our writing project. These have to be completed by tomorrow before lunch.
In math we added four more flash cards. They were 2 X 6, 2 X 7, 6 X 2, and 7 X 2. We worked with word problems dealing with perimeter today.Some were a little difficult. We will do four more tomorrow. We discussed that rather than fear/hate word problems, we should look at them as mysteries.
On Thursday, January 26th, it is the 100th day of school. We are all dressing up as if we are 100 years old (some of us are much closer to 100 than others). Pop-it bracelets will be sold in the gym from 7:15-7:45 that day, as well.
I had a couple of students who forgot their book orders, so I extended the due date to tomorrow.
Have a great evening!
It was another educational day in third grade!
We worked more with commas today. This time we used them to separate addresses. (Name, street, city, state) We also worked on our current writing project. Some have finished theirs.
We are having a spelling test this week. But since it is a short week, we will all have the same words and there will only be 10. I found 10 words that all third graders should know, and we went with them.
because
Friday
circus
third
Monday
newspaper
half
eyes
food
prize
We reviewed and practiced perimeter in math. We even had to draw a shape with a given perimeter. That is difficult.
We talked about energy and the two kinds (potential and kinetic). We also discussed how oil and natural gas is formed. We made a simulation of the layers of earth using three different types of bread. We sprinkled paprika on the slices to represent the dead plant and animal life that falls to the bottom on the layers.
We also worked with the suffix “ed.” We discussed how it usually means that something happened in the past.
Book orders are due this Thursday.
Have a great evening.
