January Newsletter
MATH:
Throughout the month of January the third graders will be investigating the make-up of two-dimensional shapes. They will learn to describe and classify these shapes based on their many features sich as: sides, angels, and vertices. They will study squares, rectangles, and triangles in depth and learn words such as congruent and symmetrical. As a class we will work to understand how knowing all of this can relate to the real world around us, and help us in our study of three-dimensional shapes down the road.
Student Handbook: 118-124
Student Handbook: 118-124
LITERACY:
The third graders will soon be beginning their new thinking strategy: Determining Importance. We will learn how to the find the main idea of the texts we read and the events or ideas that are truly significant to what we are reading. The students will learn what it means to summarize and how determining importance is key to writing a summary about something we have read or watched. We will discuss the difference between events that are significant and events that are just something we happened to enjoy the most in the story.
The study of Determining Importance comes at the perfect time as we begin to really dive deeper into Informative Writing. We are learning the features and structures of a non-fiction piece of writing, and how to write an organized paragraph. The third graders have already chosen a topic to write about...something they feel they are true experts on. We focused on thinking through our main, important ideas and creating a table of contents for our informative books. The students will now learn to support their main ideas and write using details, facts, definitions, quotes, and more.
The study of Determining Importance comes at the perfect time as we begin to really dive deeper into Informative Writing. We are learning the features and structures of a non-fiction piece of writing, and how to write an organized paragraph. The third graders have already chosen a topic to write about...something they feel they are true experts on. We focused on thinking through our main, important ideas and creating a table of contents for our informative books. The students will now learn to support their main ideas and write using details, facts, definitions, quotes, and more.
SCIENCE:
The third graders will continue their study of rocks and minerals, and how the landscape of our Earth is in a state of constant change. The third graders will be able to truly see the important role a geologist plays in the real world, and will even see how some of our civilized structures would not exist today if not for rocks.
