Mrs. Berak's Third Grade News
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August 24-28, 2015
Reading Workshop
This week during reading workshop we focused our attention on inferencing ( drawing conclusions based on clues from the text and what we already know). We read the stories, The Trial of Cardigan Jones and Private I. Guana to help us with this. We took a closer look at these stories to see how the author offered clues for us to understand what was going on in the story. Next week we will turn our attention to character traits and practice finding text evidence that supports character traits.
* Just a reminder, we will visit the library on Friday
Writing Workshop
We have been very busy during writing workshop. We continued to work on editing and revising. We are working so hard on publishing our first pieces! It has been fun to read all of the wonderful pieces that have been and are on their way to being published. We plan to finish these this week so we can begin our first writing genre unit, Personal Narratives.
How does revising and editing help us and our peers?
Several of us enjoyed publishing on the couch!
Students enjoyed using Book Creator on the iPads to publish!
Math Workshop
During our math workshop this week we focused our attention on money and making change. We practiced using the counting on method to help us do this. In addition to this, we continued subtraction and finding patterns. This coming week we will finish our Unit 1 and take the assessment for this unit.
The One and Only Ivan Book Club
Hello everyone!
Thank you to all who joined us for our first book discussion on Friday. The students were super excited you were there! We have truly enjoyed reading The One and Only Ivan and it was a BIG help to have so many adults in the classroom modeling discussing a book. This is something we work on all year long and with your help, this was a great practice for our kiddos! If you didn't join us, but would like to join us in the future, our next book discussion will be September 25th. You may see below for the schedule.
The One and Only Ivan - Official Book Trailer
Parent Information
Lunch for this coming week
Specials for the week
Monday- Music
Tuesday- P.E.
Wednesday-Technology
Thursday-Art
Friday- Music
Maker Night with Mrs. Patterson- See below, you don't want to miss this! She added another night to the schedule- September 3, 2015.
Kid President - How To Be An Inventor!