Mrs. Berak's Third Grade News
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November16-20, 2015
Here's What We Are Learning
Reading Workshop
This week we continued to look at how characters change throughout the story and also how to identify the theme in a book. We learned that when we notice a character is changing because they learn a life lesson or another character gives the main character advise, this often helps us understand the theme of a story. We read Molly's Pilgrim to help us with this. We noticed that Molly changed throughout the story. Ask us how she changed? We also decided the theme of the story was- Everyone is different so, be proud of who you are.
Our Pilgrim Dolls
Reading Responses
We began working on fine tuning our reading responses this week. We used TAG to help us remember that when responding to a question we must, Turn the question into a statement, answer the question, and give evidence and explain our thinking. We decided we were ready to step out of the baby pool, take our floaties off, and dive deep into the ocean of reading responses. Check us out below!
No More Floaties!
We're Diving in the Deep Sea of Reading Responses!
Writing Workshop
During writing this week we focused on adding dialogue to our narrative writing to help the reader understand what the character is thinking and how he/she feels. We did a wonderful job including this in our writing. We also had a chance to be the teachers, and help Mrs. Berak correctly include dialogue in her writing.
Math Workshop
Wow! We are certainly on a roll in math workshop. We began multiplication and division this week. We started out by noting all of the things we knew about multiplication. Our chart quickly grew and grew and grew! By the end of the week, it was completely full of all the things we have learned about multiplication and division. If you have a moment, ask us a multiplication problem and see if we can solve it. Ex. If 6 people are coming to Thanksgiving dinner and we need 4 dishes for each person, how many dishes do we need?
Documenting our knowledge and thinking...
We used The Doorbell Rang to help us understand division.
Parent Information
Lunch for this coming week
Specials for the week
Monday- Music
Tuesday-P.E.
Wednesday-No School
Thursday-Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday-No School