A Sneak Peek At Our Week ...

• Morning Work/Vocabulary:  Instead of completing our PAVE vocabulary activities, students will begin focusing their learning on two affixes each week.  The affixes we will be focusing on this week are -ful and -est. 

• Writing:  Students will learn the fourth, and final summarizing strategy this week - somebody-wanted-but-so-then.  This strategy will help them synthesize fictional texts into very concise summaries.  

• Math:  This week, students will be pre-assessed on learning goals and objectives of Unit 5: Big Numbers, Estimation, and Computation .  This pre-assessment will be used to differentiate groups for each and every lesson.  Following the pre-assessment, lessons 5.1-5.4 will be instructed this week.  Be sure to check the third grade website for the parent letter and unit explanation: Unit 5

• Read-Aloud:  We will be finishing There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom this week.  It has been a favorite amongst all students!  We will end this read-aloud discussing the theme, or author's message, and how it applies to the students' lives.  This discussion will continue into the next week as well.  

• Reading:  Students will finish reading James and the Giant Peach this week.  After choosing character traits to describe James at the beginning, middle, and end of the story, they will draw conclusions as to how he has changed throughout the novel.  Then, they will dig deeper and determine which events of the story had the most affect on James, causing him to change.  Finally, students will determine the theme of the text by identifying a theme topic, creating a theme statement, and finding evidence from the text to support their thinking.  

• Social Studies:  Students have really enjoyed working on their alphabet books, and will continue to work on them this week.  Lessons and activities this week will focus around the following guiding question:  What were some problems Chicago faced in its early development?