Science: The children examined 12 different rocks and came up with descriptive words for each using their 4 senses (we elected not to use our sense of taste on this one- licking the rocks didn't seem like a good idea!) Next, the children worked on sorting the rocks and describing the groups they made. Two groups sorted the rocks into categories of big and small, one group sorted by shiny and dull, another group decided to sort by color, and still another sorted into a heavy group and a light group.
Social Studies: We started studying Australia this week! We read an online picture book full of interesting facts about Australia. The children learned three new vocabulary words: aboriginal, outback, and marsupial. We also learned that the population of Australia is about the same as the population of New York...and that there are ten times more sheep than people living in Australia!
Math: The children learned about the commutative property by writing a multiplication sentence to match an array and then rotating the array 90 degrees and writing a new multiplication sentence to match. They discovered that the order of factors in a multiplication sentence can be switched and the product will remain the same.
ELA: After talking about where writers get their ideas, we determined that writers write about things they know a lot about or have an interest in. The children started a list in their writer's notebook of topics they know a lot about or are interested in and used the list of topics to help them write each day. We've got some great authors in third grade! In reading we started talking about how readers can ask and answer questions about a text to demonstrate they understood what they have read. We also started putting together our Reading Notebooks, which will hold our notes about Common Core reading skills. This week we asked and answered questions about fiction texts, and next week we are going to start practicing the same skill with non-fiction texts.
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