Hello Families!
Our classroom blog is a place where I will post pictures in order to let you see what is going on in our classroom! We also have some helpful links on the side to the Dickinson Third Grade page, our scholastic book order site, and our volunteer website. I hope you find this useful!
We officially have 2 weeks under our belt! Man, our days are flying by! Our stability balls are working out great! We have practiced body basics on the ball and have also spent a lot of time practicing what it looks like to Be Respectful....Be Responsible...Be Safe...and Be Caring.
Your third graders are also learning the importance of creating independent behaviors. We are practicing that in writing, reading, and word study!
Writing
We are learning some strategies for creating lists in order to quick write and generate ideas when we are stuck!
Reading
In reading we have talked about how to pick good fit books. Check out this link to the iPick rap!
We have also been working on our independent reading behaviors, which you will find on the backside of the Building a Reading Life flyer that went home. We are practicing strategies that good readers use, such as visualizing. It is important to think about what you are reading and be able to make pictures in your mind as you are reading.
Math
We began reviewing place value and truly understanding the value of numbers. All week we are going to be practicing rounding numbers to the nearest 10 or 100. This is an important concept that many of us still struggle with. Today, we began moving into the concept of multiplication!
Word Study
This week we are beginning our word study groups! Be watching for your child to have a spelling sort in their plastic sleeve in their take home binder! Sorting and understanding word patterns is just as important as spelling them. Please have your child show you how to sort their words. Then, you can lay out the headers and tell them a sort word, and have them point to the correct category! Another great way to practice words at home is to have your child write them. You can have the headers written for them and then say a word and they can write it in the correct category!
Geography
We have been having a lot of fun with Geography! We are naming and locating our 5 oceans and 7 continents. Today we focused on the 3 countries located in North America. We are discussing map skills and even took a trip around the world on Google Earth!
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