A Sneak Peek At Our Week ...

Writing:  Students will continue to practice writing reading extended responses this week.  In the classroom we are focusing on choosing strong textual evidence to support a claim/prompt, and then explaining how and why the evidence supports.  

Students will be bringing home a story and response graphic organizer to complete for homework this week as well.  They will have a list of sentence starters to help them with these responses.  The starters can also be found on the Third Grade website - Text Evidence, Explanation, Voice Starters.  

Reading:  We will be wrapping up the "key word strategy" for summarizing nonfiction text this week, and shift out focus to summarizing fictional texts.  Students will be learning about the "plot mountain strategy" and the "somebody-wanted-but-so-then" strategy.  We will be using Cynthia Rylant's Every Living Thing for students to independently practice the summarizing strategy. 

Math:  This week we will focus on lessons 4.3-4.6 in math.  Students will take a day to practice math extended responses as well.  The Unit 4 IXL checklist and games can be found on the Unit 4 page of the Third Grade website!

Social Studies:  On Tuesday, students will begin Unit 2 in Social Studies: How Chicago Came to  Be.  For the culminating project of this unit, students will be making a "Chicago ABC book", highlighting a multitude of significant people, events, and places, that contributed to Chicago becoming the city it is today!  This is a project students will work on throughout the unit.  

Important News & Events:

• Mon. 11/18 - Harvest Fest from 4:30-6:30  
• Mon. 11/18 - Ireland's mom will be coming into the classroom teaching the students about presentation skills!
• We will be starting "Tweetheart of the Week" this week!
• Mon. 11/25 - Quarter 2, Part 1 Project Due!