Third Grade News
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Synetic Theater -- Resident Artists
A reminder on Friday, each third grade class will be performing for about ten minutes to show what they have learned this week about silent physical theater. If you would like to join us, please meet us at 3pm in the school cafeteria.
Piecing Our Math Facts Together
Our Weeks Ahead
September 28 - October 10th, 2017
Over the next two weeks, we will be working on understanding and representations of multiplication strategies. Students will work to apply multiplication to the concept of a rectangle's area. We will be encouraging students to think of multiplication sentences as groups of. An example of this would be 3 x 4 is the same as 3 groups of 4.
Language Arts --
With the arrival of the resident artist, Synetic Theater, we started working on reading literary text and are focusing on Tall Tales. We are looking at the various character traits, motivations, and events of a story. The students are working on explaining how the character's traits contribute to the events and outcomes of the story.
Writing --
The students are working on constructing their small moments original writing. The students are looking at describing a quick moment in time. An example, is the excitement of stepping onto the diving board for the first time and explaining one's thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions.
Arts Integration --
The students are finishing up their presentations on the regions of the United States. They will be sharing them with the class next week. This has taken us a few days longer to get completed as we have had Synetic Theater in during AI time.
We will then begin to explore the landmarks and special features of our state of Maryland. We will use the poem "Maryland You are Beautiful to Me" to guide us through a virtual tour of our state.
Dismissal Changes
3rd Grade Team
Karen Nori - x 61575
Wendy Wampler - x 61573
Jessica Zambreny - x 61563
Website: education.fcps.org/sres
Location: Spring Ridge Elementary School, Ridgefield Drive, Frederick, MD, United States
Phone: 240-236-1600
Twitter: @3rdsressteam