Mrs. Watson's Weekly: Wrapping Up November ... & Happy Thanksgiving!

So much to share.... Take a picture walk through our activities!

ALL 3rd graders read
Charlie Bumpers Versus the Perfect Little Turkey. They read on Epic and completed assignments on a virtual Reader's Notebook.
Here are 2 sample pages of the work students were asked to do.
Work each day involved:
reading/listening to the story
answering questions
writing questions about the story
thinking about characters
writing about characters' actions/feelings
summarizing events in the story
thinking about quotes/character's dialogue
writing a book review

Students also had to navigate between Epic and Google Classroom. They had to go back to their work and correct any errors and find their teacher's notes. It was a big project!

Brooke writes an ending to her narrative story!

We reviewed story elements as we read realistic fiction!

We enjoyed reading outdoors on one of our last warm FALL days!

Time to SCOOT! Go!

We did an ARRAY SCOOT all around the room to solve problems.

Brains are working, legs are moving, and facts are being reviewed!

Sitting and solving at its best!

Alex and Jordan are making their way around the room

Journal responses about our reading book and how it relates to our own family.

Grandmas are great at spoiling grandchildren!

Check out our ARRAYS! (Cereal, coins, stickers, goldfish!, and more!)

Calling the Distributive Doctor! STAT!

Will broke up 5 X 10 into smaller known facts!

Students learned how to BREAK APART their factors and use known facts to solve larger multiplication facts. Don't know 13 X 8? That's okay!
Look a the facts you do know... 2, 3, 5, 10.
13 = 10 + 3
13 X 8 = (10 x 8) = (3 x 8)

Writers worked on going back to their story
to CAREFULLY edit their work!

Life in colonial times wasn't easy! Look at what Sarah Morton's day looked like.

We completed a Venn diagram to compare and contrast our lives.

Pilgrims Crafts...

On Monday and Tuesday this week we worked on pilgrim crafts similar to what we might have done if we had gone to Rocky Woods. Students braided belts, wove placemats, and made a corn pendant necklace. But we didn't just craft because it was fun! We wrote about each craft and what it symbolized in Colonial America and for the Native peoples who lived here in the 1600's.

We braided belts since braiding was important to the Native people's culture. They braided their hair for religious reasons and also to prepare for war. They used braids to keep their traps tightly bound together. They also braided mats used to line the walls of their wetus.

... just a little math break!

We wove placemats because many of the pilgrims were weavers during their time in Holland. They worked hard and made little money. This was a job they could do without a language barrier as the people in Holland spoke Dutch.