We are working very hard in our classroom right now. As I discussed at Open House, third grade means more responsibility and greater independence. We have had many discussions in class lately about effort. I would appreciate any support you can give me when talking with your child at home. Thank you!
Reading
We will complete Charlotte's Web this week. Our focus is on how the characters have changed and influenced each other. We will also complete our book group books this week. Our work in these groups has centered around character traits.
Writing
We will complete our Personal Narrative unit this week. We are currently drafting our narratives and we will work on editing and revising later this week.
Math
We learned our 9's today. Ask your son/daughter to tell you some of the amazing patterns we discovered and our neat tricks to solving these problems. We will also learn the rules for multiplying by 0 and 1, and multiplying by 10. We will have our first timed test this Friday (multiplying by 2). Also, the students have a word problem packet due on November 22nd.
Social Studies
We have begun a unit about the United States. We began our work learning about landforms and finding the US on a variety of maps. We have also discussed the US's climate. This week we will be learning about our economy. An assignment will come home tomorrow where your child will need to separate products and/or services into a need or want category.
Word Work
We are working on learning all of the irregular past tense verbs. It has been fun talking about how our verbal skills progress as we grow up!
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