“Can we build our structures?” 3F students have asked during every Quiet Time this week. Music to my ears! Everyone is excited to take their “background knowledge” of structures we studied during Computer Lab to build newspaper free-standing structures that are tall, strong, stable, and can withstand weights. For a Morning Message, students wrote a DETAILED opening sentence for the start of a building paragraph in their Science Log Books. Here is the “formula” to write the lead sentence. Thanks to the Landmark School staff for helping the Baker third grade staff to help our students to “organize” words and “structure” detailed sentences that students can independently write.
Article Adjective Adjective Noun Verb Where When
After the lead sentence, students needed to write transition words in order to describe the steps it took to make an unstable structure stable, to make it taller, etc. Students closed their eyes to SEE the movie of their group working. What happened first? Next? After that? Afterwards? Finally? The actual movie, the real events, are the scientific evidence. Students observed what happened as the building took shape, or did not take shape.
Math this week has been so challenging!!!! Students are finding sums, products, multiples, and figuring out what numbers are less than and greater than to follow clues to find “Mystery Numbers.”
I am between 7 times 5 and 7 times 7.
I am a multiple of 5.
The units number is smaller than the tens number.
Students are applying their multiplication fact knowledge to go “deeper” into solving Mystery Numbers. Students have been taught to eliminate the numbers that do not work to finally arrive at the correct mystery number.
Students wrote wonderful poems about Veterans Day that are hanging up where the students’ Fall Haiku used to hang. I think that it is crucial for students to know why there is a national holiday. No holiday should be taken for granted.
Our writing this week has been focused on Veterans Day, writing a letter to Patricia Polacco, and writing in our Science Notebooks. Because of Veterans Day and a shortened day on Wednesday, there was no Word Study this week.
Students are still sharing their Massachusetts visits during Morning Meeting. Each share has been so impressive! Students have learned so much about the state of Massachusetts. There is a plethora of activities for families in this state!
Article Adjective Adjective Noun Verb Where When
After the lead sentence, students needed to write transition words in order to describe the steps it took to make an unstable structure stable, to make it taller, etc. Students closed their eyes to SEE the movie of their group working. What happened first? Next? After that? Afterwards? Finally? The actual movie, the real events, are the scientific evidence. Students observed what happened as the building took shape, or did not take shape.
Math this week has been so challenging!!!! Students are finding sums, products, multiples, and figuring out what numbers are less than and greater than to follow clues to find “Mystery Numbers.”
I am between 7 times 5 and 7 times 7.
I am a multiple of 5.
The units number is smaller than the tens number.
Students are applying their multiplication fact knowledge to go “deeper” into solving Mystery Numbers. Students have been taught to eliminate the numbers that do not work to finally arrive at the correct mystery number.
Students wrote wonderful poems about Veterans Day that are hanging up where the students’ Fall Haiku used to hang. I think that it is crucial for students to know why there is a national holiday. No holiday should be taken for granted.
Our writing this week has been focused on Veterans Day, writing a letter to Patricia Polacco, and writing in our Science Notebooks. Because of Veterans Day and a shortened day on Wednesday, there was no Word Study this week.
Students are still sharing their Massachusetts visits during Morning Meeting. Each share has been so impressive! Students have learned so much about the state of Massachusetts. There is a plethora of activities for families in this state!