Mrs. Fox's Third Grade: Weekly Update-October 7

Announcements

A huge thank you to everyone who helped at the Comet Carnival! I enjoyed seeing everyone there, and I know the students had a fabulous time. A group of students who were there at the same time decided to get a class photo in the photo booth!

We still need a game for our Fall party! Even if you cannot make the party, I can lead the game if you send in the materials. Fall Party Sign-up Link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090a4baaa723aa8-room

We had a few indoor recesses this week, and students were very creative!

In the Classroom

In math this week, we started our Subtraction unit. Students discussed various strategies for subtracting including using a hundreds chart and breaking the numbers apart. We also practiced estimating. We will look at the stacking and regrouping strategy next week.

In writing this week, we continued "exploding" our small moment stories. We working on showing instead of just telling. This means we use strong details that make the reader picture our stories in their heads.Each student was given a tell and asked to write a paragraph that would show the same thing.

Come see the rest on our class bulletin board!

In reading this week, we worked on the story element of plot. Students used a graphic of a roller coaster to think about the beginning, climax, and ending of stories. We also started our first round of guided reading groups. Each student read a folktale and discussed plot.

Global Read Aloud started this week! We are participating in their world-wide event that involves everyone doing the same read aloud book at the same time. We are reading The BFG by Roald Dahl. We have connected with a few classes around the country by participating in a padlet (an online forum to post pictures, videos, and ask questions.)

We will be connecting with more classes to discuss the book next week!

In Economics this week, students learned about opportunity cost. We discussed how making choices on how to spend money means there are other things we do not get to have. We also read a book called, The Pickled Patch Bathtub. This book is about a family from 1955 that is saving up to buy a bathtub. Each child in the family has to decide to give up something else they are saving for in order to pool their money together and get the tub. We thought about our own savings plan and how we were going to reach our savings goal.