Weekly Wrap-Up

I was so proud of my students on Monday! They came back after spring break and just jumped right back into the swing of things!

We have finally been able to get back to our "Duck on a Bike" stories in language arts and we did some revising and editing this week. I hope to have final copies finished up by next week. This week, all third graders in the district took the writing CBA (curriculum based assessment). On Wednesday, they had to read two passages and answer multiple choice questions about revising and editing those passages. They also had to write a personal narrative in response to a prompt on Friday.

In math, we spent the first half of the week continuing our study of graphs.

Then on Thursday, we began 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication. If you see them working on this at home, you may see some strategies you are unfamiliar with, as we do not teach the traditional algorithm at the start. For example, for 13X4, we want students to understand that this can be broken down to 10X4 and 3X4, so we use base 10 blocks to really let them explore that concept hands on!

They are really enjoying our science unit on earth changes. Students are researching volcanoes, earthquakes, or landslides and preparing an informational poster to present to the class in small groups of 3 or 4 students. 

On Friday, we had a guest speaker, an earthquake scientist from UT speak to the third grade about his work. They were fascinated by his presentation! They are looking forward to next week when we analyze the soil samples you have been sending in. Thanks again for that support.

On a sad note, we had to say goodbye to one of our sweet students on Friday. Anjiya is going back to Saudi Arabia with her family for the next few months. The rest of us were quite sneaky this week and all of the students signed a frame for her with a class photo in it, as well as wrote her a note in a little album I put together for her with pictures of her time in our third grade classroom. We will miss Anjiya and hope she will write to us so we can be pen pals!

Have a great weekend, I will see everyone on Monday.