Mrs. Berak's Third Grade News
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January 18-22, 2016
Here's What We Are Learning
Reading Workshop
This week during reading workshop we continued focusing on our nonfiction unit: Growing Big Ideas and Concepts in nonfiction reading. We finished up exploring how readers can read expository texts to help them understand what they are reading better. We also worked on noticing what we know (facts), think, and wonder while reading. Next week we will turn our attention to narrative non-fiction text.
Writing Workshop
During writing this week we continued our informational writing unit. We are well into this unit and the 3rd Grade writers are working hard on sharing their knowledge. This week we focused on building great introductions and making sure we also include idea and not just facts in our writing. This next week we explore different ways to write topic sentences to build stronger paragraphs in our writing.
Math Workshop
This past week we finished up our place value unit. The students all did a wonderful job on the place value assessment! In addition to this, we continued to work on elapse time and area and perimeter problem solving. Now that our knowledge has grown a lot, we discussed the importance of mathematicians using their schema to help them solve problems. We will continue to work on this, this coming week as we begin to explore our Geometry unit.
Parent Information
A note from Mrs. Patterson
Lunch for this coming week
Specials for the week
Monday- Technology
Tuesday-Art
Wednesday-Music
Thursday-P.E.
Friday-Technology