Mrs. Watson's Weekly: October is flying by....

NEWS:

Our first book order arrived! Many new books that arrived and were sent home last week and this week.

We finished our 4 weeks of MUSIC instruction with Mrs. Stover and have made the switch to ART with Ms. Babin. Students were excited to get started with art!

Students in Grade 3 were asked to join STUDENT COUNCIL if they were interested. They were asked to write speeches and then share them with the grade on Wednesday at 1:00 on a Zoom with Mrs. Caulfield. Our three candidates for our classroom are: SJ Nejm, Lyra Nute, and Sarah Tea! Congratulations to all the students who ran this year. I am proud of you!

WRITING:

In writing workshop, we are looking at finding the topic sentence and adding interesting details. We are experimenting with different LEADS for our stories. Some of the choices we discussed trying were: ACTION, DIALOGUE, ONOMATOPOEIA, SETTING, QUESTION, and FACT.

Here are two different LEADS to the same story.

(QUESTION) Have you ever tried to dive in a pool? I have, and boy was it scary the first time.

(SETTING) The pool was a clear, sparkly blue as I stood on the side. I stepped on to the diving board.

MATH:

In math we have been making and labeling arrays. In addition to that we are practicing skip counting by 2, 5, and 10.

Jordan writes addition and multiplication sentences
to match her sea creatures!

Harrison skip counts by 2 and finds a pattern!

We discussed the word MULTIPLES and discussed the multiples of 2. Students noticed that all the multiples of 2 are EVEN.

We also logged on to Freckle Math to get started on some fact practice and to do an initial assessment of skills.

Will is working on Freckle Math.

READING:

In reading we have been working on different mini lessons. These are just a few we have covered in the past two weeks.

Good readers stop and ask themselves questions as they read.

Readers "Click" when their reading makes sense and "Clunk"
when things are confusing.
If things CLICK, we keep on reading.
If we CLUNK, we stop and REREAD!

Readers are looked at solving for UNKNOWN or TRICKY Words. We read an article about SNEEZING and figured out the meaning of words like....