I hope that everyone enjoyed the snow day on Friday. I am looking forward to the warmer temperatures in the forecast for the upcoming week!
Reading
We have begun reading our biographies. I hope that your son/daughter has shared the person they are studying with you. We will be studying the structure of a biography, as well as the subject. We had an interesting discussion about why it is important to read biographies. The students made some interesting observations!
Writing
We have completed our informational writing unit. Right now we are working on writing in response a text and using textual evidence in our writing. We are reading a variety of short texts and answering questions about the text. This week our goal will be to expand our writing. Eventually we will be writing essays.
Math
We started fractions last week. We learned that a whole can be broken into equal pieces and a fractions is used to represent the pieces. We made fraction strips and used these to find equivalent fractions. We also made some interesting observations about a fraction that represents a whole and a half. This week we will be working with fractions on a number line. This is a major part of the common core standards for math in third grade.
Science
The students completed their Solar System research last week and we have begun to work on our glogs. We will work on these in school this week. I will also send home directions and a username and password for your son/daughter to work on this at home (if they would like). I will add a link to the sidebar that will help you get to the correct page.
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