This year students are learning from a literacy curriculum called Benchmark Advance.
Unit Essential Question:
How does understanding science help us achieve our goals?
Over the next few weeks in reading students will be learning:
Skills:
read and respond to poems
refer to and describe parts of a poem
recount key details and determine the main idea
describe a relationship in a set of steps in a procedure
compare and contrast key details in two texts on the same topic
Grammar:
We will review what we have learned in grammar this year!
Students are learning how to write different types of poems!
Each week students study a specific letter sound or pattern. This is done by introducing the letter sound or pattern to students, practicing it, and then students are asked to look for examples of words with that letter sound or pattern.
Word study focus:
We will review what we have learned in word study this year!
Third graders are learning concepts within Topic 16- Data
By the end of Topic 16, students will have learned to...
use a line plot to organize the results of an experiment.
read and interpret data from a pictograph and a bar graph.
make a pictograph from a table or tally chart.
make a bar graph to represent the data in a table or tally chart.
solve problems by using tables and graphs to draw conclusions.
Classes are learning about natural hazards.
Classes have completed social science for the school year!