It's hard to believe it's October! Your children and I have been very busy in the classroom, and I have so much to share with you. During reading, we've been working to build our reading stamina by reading for extended periods of time. Each of the children has a book bag with self-selected books. The students have worked on making inferences and identifying character traits for main characters in literature. We've focused on determining the important ideas when reading nonfiction. Word study and phonics has also been included in our literacy block. We've finished up a sentence review unit in writing. One activity we did was writing compound sentences. We enjoyed the stories Verdi by Janell Cannon and Fireflies by Julie Brinckloe. We examined some of the beautifully written sentences, and were inspired to try some of our own. Currently, we're learning about writing paragraphs. During science, we've been learning about the water cycle and types of clouds. We'll be researching severe weather next. During the month of October, we'll begin a unit on Native Americans in Connecticut.
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Jennifer Wales
10/2/2017 01:15:48 pm
Shawn is enjoying 3rd grade - thank you for all you do!
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