Before we left school, we were finishing up our poetry unit in reading. One of our final activities was reading the book of poems called “The Best Part of Me,” which is full of poetry written by children about the best part of themselves. Students in Room 11 had the choice of writing about the best parts of them on the outside AND the inside in either poetry or prose. I took photos of each student based on what they wrote, and we have a wonderful finished product waiting to come home to you when we get back to school...I hope you all enjoy the best parts of Room 11...
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To celebrate “Read Across America,” our classroom spent the afternoon curling up with a good book! The students seemed to love having the uninterrupted time to read whatever they’d like! I was happy to have some time to make more progress in the book I’ve been reading at home, too! Here are 2 slideshows of activities across the curriculum that I’ve taken this term! Enjoy! Students read multiple biographies during the final bend of our “Reading to Learn” unit of study. As a final in-school project, students created a “Biography Buddy” to share with the class. Our Gallery Walk last week was a big success! Students in the third grade have been working on nonfiction reading for the past few weeks. They have buckets of just right level books to choose from, and have been assigned a reading partner for the unit. The other day, students met with their reading partner and shared the main idea of subsections of their non-fiction text. We also started science this week! Students were very excited to make a prediction of what would happen during several experiments involving magnets, then had a chance to test out whether or not their predictions were correct. It should be an exciting unit on motion and matter! Finally, we ended the week watching the movie “Stewart Little” and comparing and contrasting all the similarities and differences between the book and the movie. Wow, there’s a lot of differences! The students did an amazing job of pointing out all the things they noticed that were similar or different.
This week, we collected data from other classrooms and graphed it using bar graphs and pictographs. The Arlington Elks came to our classroom to give each student their own dictionary! The class was very excited, and now have another resource to look up spellings of unknown words. Thank you to Joy Danison, our room parent, who planned and purchased materials for our fall craft the class created on Halloween! The students had a lot of fun making the craft and doing some “Just Dance” movement breaks! We had a great trip to the Commonwealth Museum in Boston today! Students got a chance to rotate through a number of hands-on activities after learning about different aspects of Massachusetts history. We also played a state symbol game and made state symbol posters. Thank you to the parent chaperones who joined us! Students have been practicing using Envisioning, Predicting, and Retelling strategies while they read as they conquer “Building a Reading Life.” We also played our first math game with the array cards we made called “Factor Pairs!” Students are starting to make note of multiplication “Facts that they know” and “Facts they are working on.” Today, students chose their “seed story” and had a writing lesson on “spicing up” their writing. Students learned how to use a thesaurus and found more exciting ways to replace “boring” words. Here are some examples of what they found: |
Mrs. Trottier
Grade 3 teacher Archives
April 2019
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