Room 15 News

Hello, families!

Our third graders have completed another busy week!  We have completed our reading unit on “Building a Reading Life”, which has focused upon developing good reading habits and strategies, and developing our skills in identifying the elements of fictional text.  Next week we will conduct our pre-assessment before starting our second reading unit of study. In this unit, students will explore the text structures of informational text.  Please encourage your child to make this shift in their at-home reading as well. They may certainly continue to read those wonderful stories and fantasies, but we appreciate it if you will help your child to delve a little deeper into the joys of nonfiction!

In math, we are continuing our study of multiplication concepts and skills. This week students were engaged in activities that challenged them to use arrays in order to solve problems. They discovered that there are many strategies that will lead to a correct answer, although some are more efficient than others. In Number Corner, we concluded our activities for October, which included liquid measurement, computation, multiplication strategies, and geometry. We look forward to our November adventures!

Our writers have completed a personal narrative, and we are typing the final drafts in Google docs.  We have learned about how to develop the voice of a storyteller and to share an experience as a story rather than a list of events. This is a skill we will continue to work to develop this year. We will also continue to work on skills related to sentence and paragraph structure, and using appropriate grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Third graders have started to learn keyboarding.  We are using a program called Typing Master. We practice keyboarding on our Chromebooks. 

In social studies, we have continued to explore skills related to maps and globes, and will begin our study of Native Americans. We will be starting our study with Native Americans of the far north, and the migration of early tribes into North America.

The Harvest Luncheon will be held this Monday. Families are welcome, but reservations are required. Please call Rose Datillio if you plan to attend but have not yet signed up.

Please be sure to use the Pick-A-Time system to sign up for your parent conference in the coming weeks. I look forward to discussing your child’s progress! If you need help with using the system, please call Rose at 652-7400.

We greatly appreciate the donation of disinfecting wipes for our tables now that cold and flu season is on the way.  We would also appreciate boxes of soft tissues.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Keelin M. Simpson