Academic Updates: The third graders did it! They finished their chapter books! They’ve worked so hard the past couple weeks, and they should be very proud of themselves. Our next writing unit will be Opinion and Persuasive writing. We continued to work on our fluency during Literacy Centers as well, with a focus on Reading Comprehension and “chunking” phrases and words with purpose. Making sure to emphasize words, and pause in the correct places in order to get the right point across. We also created our ELA/Social Studies and Math/Science goals for the next trimester, and have practiced using the CAFÉ (Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expand Vocabulary) Reading board to our advantage so that we can progress towards our ELA goal, by thinking about what to do while independent reading each day in order to get to where we want to be by the end of the trimester. We had a very eventful Friday before Winter Break. The K- 8th graders of H.E.S. partnered up with a buddy grade, and joined in a sled making/ racing competition. There was a lot of great teamwork and creative design that went into the making of these fantastic sleds. The judges gave points for creativity, durability, and distance. Altogether it was a great way for the kids to work with the older grades for a common purpose, and to get outside and support each other in their races. Upcoming events & Reminders:
*Please have your child bring in gloves, boots, a winter coat, and snow pants each day. *Please have your child bring their recorders to school the Tuesday after break! native american village presentations! They did an excellent job :)Full school february privilege- sled creations and races!
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Wow it’s been a busy week! I hope you all enjoyed the snow day! Luckily even with the snow day, delayed opening, and half day this week, we were still able to get our learning in. This week the students learned about a new Language Skill called Subordinating Conjunctions, a fancy phrase meaning something that combines two parts of a sentence, by using words like “after,” “although.” and “then.” The students worked hard to understand this complicated topic. We will continue to practice this. During Writing, we went over our Rough Drafts with our “Third Grade Checklists” focusing on the organization and structure of our writing. Soon we will get into illustrating and adding text features to our chapter books. The third graders are working so hard! They should be very proud of themselves! Reading time has been spent focusing on using our own books to find examples of ways the author uses text features to add more information to their books, so that in turn the students can do the same in their own writing. Upcoming events & Reminders:
*Please have your child bring in gloves, boots, a winter coat, and snow pants each day. Academic Updates:
The third graders should be very proud of themselves for all of the hard work they did this week. Most of them have completed their rough drafts of their Information Writing chapter books! A lot of work went into these, learning how to research, take notes, elaborate on the information given, and most recently, creating a book using all of the elements of an Information writing piece, (like interesting title, captivating introduction, text features, etc.) This week was full of new learning and a lot of writing. During Social Studies, we focused on our Native American villages, using what the students have learned about the Cherokee, Iroquois, Hopi, and Sioux tribes to create their own version of life as a Native American. The students need to create a visual, by using a variety of materials to express what the Native Americans wore, what their homes were like, the food they ate, and much more. They have been very helpful with each other and have been working on their group skills. We will be completing these projects in the near future, and will begin to delve more into learning about notable people and inventors during Social Studies. Both third grade homerooms also made it to the top of their token jars this week! Upcoming events & Reminders:
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