In Writing, students are publishing their all about books. In Reading, students are focusing on character traits with their reading group book. In Math, students are learning strategies for their 6, 7, 8, and 9 facts with multiplication and division. In Social Studies, students are researching a state.
In Writing, students continue going through the writing process with their all about book. In Reading, students are doing a novel study in reading groups and are focusing on character development. In Math, students are learning strategies for their multiplication and division facts. In Social Studies, students are finishing up learning about the US Wonders… Continue reading Week of December 2nd
In Writing, students continued going through the writing process with their informational books. In Reading, students read the book Molly’s Pilgrim. We discussed character traits of the main characters and identified the message of the story. In Math, students continued learning strategies to solve multiplication and division problems. In Social Studies, students learned about the… Continue reading Week of November 25th
In Reading, students read the play “The Calabash Kids”. They identified parts of a play, gave a retelling, and identified the message. In Writing, students continued creating an all about book on a topic they know a lot about. In Math, students continued measuring weight and liquid volume in metric units. In Social Studies, students… Continue reading Week of November 18th
In Writing, students began our next unit of writing, informational writing! Students began choosing a topic they know a lot about and writing everything they know about it. We will use this to plan out a Table of Contents and organize our writing into sections. In Reading, students learned different reading strategies to help become… Continue reading Week of November 11th
In Reading, students read non-fiction articles and identified the main idea using key details. In Writing, students practiced answering questions using text evidence and checking for CUPS (Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling) with their writing. In Math, students began learning about how time is a continuous unit. In Social Studies, students are identifying natural, physical, and… Continue reading Week of November 4th
In Reading, students made connections between “Scarebird” and “Can Robots Be People Too?” by designing a robot for Lonesome John, the main character of “Scarebird”. In Writing, students wrote creative Halloween stories. In Math, students solved word problems using strategies for multiplication and division. In Science, students conducted an experiment to see how motion and… Continue reading Week of October 28th
In Reading, students began reading a non-fiction article on robots while asking and answering questions. In Writing, students wrote to inform others about their cannery job on our field trip. In Math, students used strategies to solve division word problems. In Science, students began going through the Engineering Design Process to build a car and… Continue reading Week of October 21st
In Writing, students wrote an opinion piece about whether 3rd graders next year should go to the Baltimore Museum of Industry using specific examples from our field trip. In Reading, students read the Junior Great Books story “Scarebird” and used evidence from the text to answer their questions. In Math, used tape diagrams to represent… Continue reading Week of October 14th
In Writing, students are publishing their small moment stories. In Reading, students made connections between fiction and non-fiction text. In Math, students used arrays to multiply factors of 2 and 3. In Science, students began learning about different forces.