Hard to believe we just celebrated the Columbus Day holiday! We have had such a wonderful start to October and I'm looking forward to another great week. Our focus will continue to be to work as a class community by actively listening, respecting each other, and always doing our best.
This week we'll continue our character trait unit of study during reading workshop with Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. We are beginning to understand our main characters in depth through the amazing conversations we're having about our reading! We're understanding how they feel, what they're thinking, and how they're acting. I am impressed with how we're all delving in the text to help prove the trait we've chosen to describe each character. As your child reads independently at home, have them give you a trait to describe their character and ask them to prove it! We'll begin book groups to further our study of character in small groups.
In writing, we'll continue personal narrative and choose a final topic to take through the writing process. We'll learn how as writers it is most important to show and not tell about the significant times in our lives we've decided to write about. These significant times include maybe our first time we did something, or the last time we did something, or a time in which we realized something important. I encourage you to speak with your child about this and offer some assistance if they share with you that they're having difficulties coming up with a topic.
We will also begin paragraph writing this week. We'll learn about the three major parts to a paragraph and look at them in detail. We'll practice writing paragraphs together and eventually students will be asked to write paragraphs about various topics independently. Paragraph writing is an essential skill for third graders.
In math we'll continue the topic of rounding. We'll be using rounding to estimate both sums and differences. We have learned a rhyme to help us when we round that you may want to review with your child:
Find the place.
Look next door.
5 or higher, add 1 more.
(Stays the same).
We'll take our second addition and subtraction math facts quiz on Friday. Be sure you're continuing to review these facts with your children. We'll be moving onto multiplication very soon!!!
Our plants have sprouted and are growing at a rapid rate! This week we'll focus on making observations and charting and graphing the growth of our plants.
We'll continue to review singular and plural nouns this week and begin looking at comparative and superlative adjectives.
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