We are off to a great start in third grade! We spent the first 2 days of school getting to know each other. On Friday, we worked on setting up some of our journals and getting organized.
Next week, we will be diving right in with our learning. Here's what's to come:
Reading-We will be reading Because of Winn-Dixie and our focus will be characters. I will also be assessing students' reading levels. We have our first trip to the media center on Friday for orientation and to check out books.
Math-Our focus will be on rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, but we will begin with some place value review. We will also be starting Number Talks, which is new to our classroom this year. A Number Talk is a daily conversation with the students as a group. It takes about 5-10 minutes and focuses on students solving math problems mentally and using a variety of strategies.
Writing-Students will be working on using writing to express their opinion on a topic using evidence/reasons.
Language Arts- We will start off with a quick review of nouns, but our main focus will be on plural and irregular nouns.
Science-Magnets! This unit is always a favorite with the students. We will be doing lots of hands-on experiments this year!
On another exciting note, it was released recently that Shelton was ranked #14 out of 1,165 elementary schools in Georgia based on our CRCT scores! I'm so excited for this year's group to blow the test out of the water yet again! You can see the other rankings HERE.
Have a great weekend!
-Mrs. Green
I like reading Winn;dixie because I have seen the movie and I have found alot of differences from the movie thanthe book.
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