Here's what you can ask your 3rd grader about:
* Starting off our day with morning work - analogies, brain teasers, handwriting and reading, Zearn
* Doing the PARCC Infrastructure Trial on chromebooks
* Learning about Groundhog Day and getting a peek at Punxsutawney Phil
* Comparing the play and the book of "One Hundred Dresses"
* Doing a sharing circle (our hidden talents) with a Smurf
* Continuing language arts homework with the blue "Main Idea and Summarizing" booklets and learning to summarize with main idea and key details
* Practicing reading comprehension and skills as well as building vocabulary on MobyMax
* Working on the reading strategy of distinguishing fact and opinion
* Reading a poem titled "Tree on the Hill" and working with two-part questions about stanzas, theme and figurative language (RL.2, RL.4, RL.5)
* Reading informational text and responding to comprehension questions in our purple books
* Finishing our novel study of the historical fiction novel, "I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871" (RL.1, RL.2, RL.3, RL.4, RL.6, RL.7, RL.10)
* Finishing our read aloud book, "I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011"
* Doing a literature comparison of both novels (RL.1, RL.3, RL.4, RL.9, RL.10)
* Doing a character analysis task comparing the main characters and their character traits from both novels (RL.1, RL.3, RL.9, RL.10, W.2, W.4, L.2) - this was our first assignment in our Google Classroom
* Building vocabulary by learning about the prefix ex-, sub-
* Continuing grammar with present verb tense
* Continuing spelling with contractions and r-controlled vowels (ar, or)
* Researching and writing our informational writing books on Google docs during writer's workshop
* Continuing with current events as part of social studies with Time for Kids
* Continuing module 3 in math by using multiplication and division within 100 to solve problems (OA.3), determining the unknown in a multiplication and division equation (OA.4), using the commutative property to find facts (OA.5), using the distributive property to solve facts (OA.5), using the strategy of making ten to find facts (OA.5), multiplying and dividing within 100 (OA.7)
* Taking Module 3 Topic B Quiz (OA.3, OA.4, OA.5, OA.7) and doing self-reflections with these formative assessments
* Warming up with sprints, fluency practice and math talks during math
* Working on our first problem of the month titled "The Wheel Shop" - we did levels A and B in class, and some of our mathematicians wanted to work on level C at home
* Focusing on the following standards of math practice (in student friendly language) - plan your attack, use pictures or objects to help you make sense of the problem, never give up even if it is really hard
* Getting more math practice on Moby Max, Zearn and Tenmarks
* Doing MARS task called "Goldfish Bowls" (this problem gives students a chance to solve everyday problems)
* Continuing with Typing Training to learn keyboarding
* Learning to handle accusations and manage disappointment during 2nd Step
Upcoming Events and Dates:
* Monday, February 13th is when the Oak Park Education Foundation is bringing Architecture Adventure to our classroom.
* Tuesday, February 14th is Valentine's Day. We will have our celebration in the morning.
* Thursday, February 16th and Friday, February 17th are half-days of school due to conferences taking place next week.
* Tuesday, March 7th is the start of PARCC testing for 3rd grade - more information will be coming your way soon.
