A Sneak Peek at Our Week ...

• Writing:  This week students will be finishing their personal narrative pieces.  On Friday they were given a revision checklist to use.  This checklist reflects lessons taught throughout the unit of study.  After self-revising their paper, they will then have a peer revise it.  Then they will work on their final draft of their paper.  Handouts and checklists can be found on the third grade website: Personal Narrative

• Math:  Unit 3 will be ending this week.  After completing lessons 3.10 and 3.11, students will complete a study guide.  The test for Unit 3 will be on Thursday.  

• Interactive Read-Aloud:  For our read-aloud, we are continuing to read There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom.  Discussion has focused around learning about who the main characters are "deep down."  Students have focused on what the characters say and do, their actions, and what other characters say about them.  They then use this information to draw conclusions about the characters, and assign character traits to them.  Over the next couple weeks, we will be collaboratively writing extended responses with this text.  

• Reading:  Over the next two weeks reading lessons will be focused around main idea and details.  This week, students will determine the main idea of a paragraph by identifying the topic sentence, distinguish between main details and supporting details, and identify titles for reading selections.  

• Science: Science Unit 1 Water  wraps up this week.  Students will complete their final investigation on Monday, complete a study-guide in class on Tuesday, and take the test Wednesday.  Expect for students to bring home their science notebook and study guide Tuesday night to review.