October 6, 2013

We had a great week! We had our first Starlab experience, continued writing personal narratives, reflected on our reading, finished our first read-aloud and started our second and finished our first math unit.

This week...

Reading

We are reading Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin for our second read-aloud. It is a fantasy and one of my personal favorites! The class is enjoying it so far. We are continuing to work on choosing just right books and reflecting on our reading. Students are using post its as they read to map their thinking. They are doing a great job with this.

Writing

We are still working on personal narratives. This week, we will continue to work on "showing, not telling" in writing. I encourage students to write like storytellers instead of reporters. Students are working with a writing partner to look at their writing and make revisions.

Math

We are in Unit 2, Addition and Subtraction. It is mainly a review, but the concept of addition properties is new to third graders so we spent a couple of days on this. We will be looking at rounding and estimation this week as well.

Science

We will continue learning about astrology and will go into Starlab again on Friday. We will be studying constellations this week.

Social Studies

We will continue the geography unit.

Spelling

We will continue with Unit 3. 

Homework:

Reading-Monday-Friday Read 20 minutes and record on October calendar

Math-Monday-Thursday One sheet per night from unit 2

Spelling-Monday-Thursday-Look, Say, Name, Cover, Write, Check sheet; Thursday-practice test at home (this does not need to come back to school)