Mrs. Berak's Third Grade News
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November 6, 2015
Here's What We Are Learning
Reading Workshop
This week during our reading workshop we worked on using the plot mountain to help us understand what the story is about, as well as, how the events in the story effect the characters. We read and plotted the story, Meteor by Patricia Polacco to help us with this. Click here to see our student reporters explain the plot mountain.
How do events effect characters?
Meteor by Patricia Polacco
Meteor Plot Mountain
Writing Workshop
This week during our writing workshop we continued to focus on building strong paragraphs while writing descriptive essays about our Minecraft communities. Next week we will focus on writing fiction stories. We will use the plot mountain to help us plot out our ideas for our writing.
Click here to watch our student reporters explain our writing this week.
Math Workshop
During math workshop this week, we continued to focus on measuring. We practiced measuring the perimeter and area of shapes. In addition to this, we continued to work on problem solving. So far, we have several strategies to help us with solving math problems. Click here to see the student report on math this week.
Documenting our knowledge and thinking...
Inquiry Time- Minecraft Communities
We continued crafting our communities on Minecraft this week. We analyzed the data we received from the community, and came up with the conclusion that many people feel good communities have great schools and parks in them. We also found out that transportation was important for people living in their community. We brainstormed ideas of how to include these in our communities. This week we will look at how to backwards plan and use the data as evidence when writing our communities report. We will also make sure we have the "needs" in our community.
Parent Information
Book Fair
Our class will be visiting the book fair on Tuesday, November 10th at 9 a.m.
Lunch for this coming week
Specials for the week
Monday- Technology
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday-Music
Thursday-P.E.
Friday-Technology