Weekly Update

All-Star of the Week

Aastha had a great week as our All-Star!  She brought in many fun items to share with the class including an origami mouse she made, trophy from Indian dance, hand carved wood puzzle from India and several cute pictures from her childhood.  She also read several entertaining poems from Jack Prelutsky's, "I'm Glad I'm Me" book of poetry. 

Social Studies

Students recently finished up our tour of the Northeast Region.  We had many educational stops where we learned about America's history and how the United States got started, and some other stops that taught fun things such as mass producing chocolate candy.  Students are filling out a travel journal during our adventures and will create a scrapbook from all of our stops throughout the year. 

 



Math

Students continue to explore clocks and measurement in Unit 3.  This week students focused on telling time to the quarter hour, half hour, five minute and one minute marks.  Students worked to use language such as 'quarter past', 'quarter to' and 'half past'.  Students are working to write the time as minutes after the hour and minutes until the next hour.  Realizing that there are 60 minutes in an hour helped students subtract to find how many minutes there were until the next hour.  Students also solve for elapsed time using subtraction, number lines and clocks to help.

Reading

Students continue to learn more about non-fiction text by exploring different structures of writing in the books they are reading.  Similar to our current writing unit, students are studying an authors work to understand if it is written in sequential order or as descriptive text.  They are also working to understand the cause and effect relationship while working with partners.

More Gingerbread Houses

Now that we are professionals in the gingerbread house building and decorating, we were asked to assist the kindergarten students as they create their masterpieces.  Third graders partnered with kindergarten buddies in Mrs. Hartley's class.