Welcome to Third Grade!

The first few weeks of school will focus on developing procedures and routines for students to adjust to Room 17.







                                              


Students are learning about the routines of Reader's Workshop.  The students are becoming familiar with the classroom library and are having opportunities to explore the library.  In addition, students are determining "good fit" books in order to prepare them for the independent reading portion of Reader's Workshop.







                     



Students will gradually start writer's workshop with short writing assignments about themselves.




                       


Students will start math workshop this week.  Students will learn the Capture 5 game, which involves adding and subtracting multi-digits on a 100 grid.  Students will gain knowledge of place value by finding pairs of 2-digit numbers that add to 100. Then they will practice this skill with a game entitled Close to 100.  As an additional method of practicing this, students will solve word problems in which they may use either a number line or a 100 grid.

In science, students are undertaking the study of the human body.  First, the class completes a KWL chart in which students reflect on what they know about the body systems and then decide what they want to learn about it.  Finally, as students learn about the body systems, they will record their learning on a KWL chart. The first system students will explore will be the skeletal system.

                                     

                            


Information on content students will be learning will be posted on a regular basis.