These past two weeks have been filled with excitement in third grade. I am so proud of the hard work the students put into the circus performance. It was wonderful to see them show off their work to everyone! This week in math we have wrapped up our review of addition and subtraction of two digit numbers and have moved on to our new unit of multiplication. I ask that if you give extra practice to your student at home, make sure they are explaining what they are doing to get to their answer. So far we have defined multiplication as a certain number of equal sized groups. For example, if we are making four pitchers of lemonade and need three lemons for each pitcher we will need 12 lemons total because there are 4 groups of 3. We learned how to draw groups with equal amounts in each group to show what we are doing to solve a problem. On Friday we were also introduced to arrays (pictures drawn as rows and columns). We found that arrays are the more efficient way to represent multiplication problems. In reading we have been discussing how readers will always encounter tricky words in their reading lives. Even though this statement is true, we should never just skip over words thinking that we do not need to know what they mean. Authors leave us clues in the text to help us figure out what a word means. When we find a tricky word when we are reading, we can write it down on a post-it note and think about how the author is using the word to come up with a definition for it. In writing we continue to work on our personal narratives. We have been spending a lot of time talking about adding details that show the reader what is happening. We also are starting to type up our first drafts in our Chromebooks. Upcoming Dates: Thursday and Friday October 18, 19 No School Monday October 22 Picture Order Forms are due Friday and Saturday October 26, 27 Common Roots Tag Sale at Orchard Gym Monday October 29 Picture Retake Day Classroom Requests: The students (and school) have been going through cold season. We have already used many of our donated tissues from the beginning of the year. If you are able, please consider sending in tissues as a donation to our classroom! Thank you!
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