We had a WONDERFUL week in third grade! The students adjusted well to a few changes in our schedule such as picture day and the hearing screening. They continue to show me how respectful and responsible they are each day!

Reading: We held a review week in reading and focused on skills such as compare and contrast, author’s purpose, sequencing, and story elements. We are continuing with comparing and contrasting this week as we look at fiction and non-fiction passages. We will also work with author’s purpose. Students took the Unit 1 Benchmark for Reading Street last week and will enter their answers online this week. Those tests will be sent home in Friday Folders on the 18th.

Math: In math, we started place value. The students are all doing an awesome job as we explore digit values, expanded form, word form, standard form, and comparing numbers. We will test on place value Friday, October 18th.

Science: We have continued working on agriculture as Ag. Day at Brubaker Park is Tuesday! Students have learned why agriculture is important to us and we have started to look at the food and fiber system. This week we will be writing about our Brubaker Park trip, continue with the food and fiber system, and review some of the important concepts from the unit. Our next unit will be on weather and it will begin next week.

Odds and Ends:

10/14 No School- enjoy your day off!

10/15 Brubaker Park for Ag. Day! If you have been selected as a chaperon, please arrive to school by 9:00.

10/31 End of Marking Period 1

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Thank you,

Miss Gentile

We are working hard in third grade as we near the end of the first marking period! The students continue to show how respectful and responsible they are each day. I’m proud of all their hard work!

Reading: In reading we read My Rows and Piles of Coins. Along with this story, we focused on author’s purpose, character, setting, and story structure. The students are getting used to transferring their answers from our weekly test from paper to online. This is a skill we will continue to work on to prepare for the state tests in the spring. For this week, we will review skills from Unit 1 in Reading Street. The skills include compare and contrast, author’s purpose, story structure, story elements, and sequencing. At the end of the week, students will take the first benchmark test which will cover all of these skills. There are NO spelling words this week!

Writing: Our day full of writing was a success last week! We took time to explore adjectives and did a fun activity where we had to describe apples. The students enjoyed coming up with adjectives and eating the apples too! We are continuing with our personal narratives.

Math: Last week was a review and test week.The students did a nice job on the Unit 1 test. This week we move to Unit 2 and our main focus will be place value. We will be working on identifying place value of digits within a number, identifying the value of each digit, and using expanded form to express a number.

Science: We are continuing with our Agriculture unit this week. Students will explore where food comes from. We will also begin explore the food and fiber system. The students will look at production, processing, natural resource management, and marketing.

Odds and Ends:

10/10 is Picture Day- please let me know if you need a new form before Thursday!

10/14- No School

10/15 is Ag. Day at Brubaker Park- I will be emailing those who are selected as chaperons.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you again for all of your support!

Thank you,

Miss Gentile

We are only a few weeks away from the end of the first marking period. I can’t believe how quickly time is flying by! We had a great week in third grade once again!

Reading: In reading, we read a story called Supermarket and worked on comparing and contrasting. The students learned about Venn Diagrams and spent time comparing many different things throughout the week. We are moving onto a new story this week called My Rolls and Piles of Coins. Our focus skill will be author’s purpose and story structure. We will have a spelling test and comprehension test on Friday.

Writing: We will be adding more time into our schedule for writing, which is very exciting! The students are continuing to work on their personal narratives and I would like to see them finished by the end of next week. We have been working hard to edit begin our final copies!

Math: In math, we have been finishing up our Review unit. Last week we spent more time working with money and focusing on Frames and Arrows as well. Monday and Tuesday of this week will be used as review sessions as we will be having our first test on Wednesday. Unit 2 will begin the week of October 7th. The next unit will focus on addition and subtraction.

Science: We will be moving to a new unit in science on Agriculture. The students will be exploring how agriculture impacts our everyday lives as well as looking into the food and fiber system. We are all very excited for Ag. Day at Brubaker Park on October 15!

Odds and Ends:

Picture day will be October 10th. Please be sure to fill out the picture day form sent home last Friday.

Ag. Day will be October 15th. Please return permission forms by October 3rd.

Friday, October 4th is a half day!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me!

Thank you,

Miss Gentile

We had another great week in third grade! The students are learning and growing everyday. I can’t believe it has already been a month since the start of the school year.

Reading: In reading this week, we read a tall tale titled Kumak’s Fish. The students continued to work on sequencing events in a story as well as visualizing. We had fun learning about life in the Arctic too! This week our focus skill will be comparing and contrasting.

Writing: We are still moving along with our personal narratives. The students had an opportunity to share their writing with their classmates and everyone was so respectful in their feedback. I’m excited to see the finished pieces!

Math: This week we worked with money. The students reviewed dollar and cents notation, comparing money amounts, and making change. These are skills we will continue to work on in small groups. We are almost finished with the first unit so a test will be coming up within the next two weeks.This week we will continue with money as well as frames and arrows.

Science: The students had a blast as we joined Mrs. Stoppi’s class once again for another experiment. We worked through the scientific method to determine the density of different objects. The students got to work with test tubes, beakers, and even wear lab goggles! We will be continuing with the scientific method next week and soon will be moving to agriculture.

Odds and Ends:

10/4 – Early Dismissal

10/10 – Picture Day

I sent picture day forms home in Friday Folders. Please let me know if you need another form before the 10th!

10/14 – No School

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you for your continuous support in your child’s education.

Thank you,

Miss Gentile

We had another great week in third grade! The students continue to show how respectful and responsible they are everyday.

Reading: This week in reading, we read a story titled What About Me? and focused on sequencing. We will continue to work with that skill this week as well as visualizing. The students did an awesome job with our phonics skill of -s, -es, and -ies endings. We also had some fun with compound words!

Math: In math, we continued our review unit and touched on topics such as tally charts, line plots, finding differences, and probability. We will work with money this week.

Science: Last week, we continued our work with Scientific Method. On Friday, Mrs. Stoppi’s class joined us for an experiment on density. We got to work with corn syrup, dish soap, water, and vegetable oil. The students LOVED watching the liquids separate and layer as they observed and gathered data. We will still be focusing on Scientific Method this week with more fun experiments.

Writing: We are still working on narrative pieces which are coming along nicely. The students are working hard to organize their thoughts into five paragraphs. I’m excited to read their finished stories!

Odds and Ends: Please continue to check your child’s homework sheet each night. They will almost always have a reading assignment, spelling practice, and math work. Just a reminder, if your child completes their spelling practice orally, please send in a note (on the homework sheet is fine). I collect spelling homework each morning.Overall the students have been great with getting their assignments completed. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Thank you,

Miss Gentile

What a WONDERFUL two weeks it has been in third grade! I’m looking forward to all that this year will bring us. It is my goal to use this blog to inform all of the the third grade families about the happenings in our classroom.

Reading– We have completed our first story in Reading Street titled When Charlie McButton Lost Power. While reading this story, we focused on story elements such as character, setting, and theme. In addition, we explored complete and incomplete sentences as well as vc/cv patterns in words. Friday, we took our first Weekly Test which will be sent home this week. Because many students are unfamiliar with the testing format, this test will NOT count for a grade.

This week we are moving onto a new story, What About Me? and we will be focusing on sequencing events in a story. Our next Weekly Test is scheduled for Friday, September 13th.

Math– In math, we have been working on many different topics as a review of skills from last year. So far we have touched on number grids, using our Student Reference Books, number sequences, and tools used for measurement. We have begun our small groups and my group is working on multidigit addition and subtraction with regrouping. I’m impressed with how hard the students are working!!!

Science– I’m very excited about what we have started in science. Last week we began our unit on the Scientific Method. We watched a BrainPop video and learned a song to show us the steps. The students worked in groups to complete an experiment with string and sound using the steps of the scientific method. This week we will move onto a few more fun experiments to work with the steps even more!

Writing– In writing, the students have been introduced to a personal narrative. This week they will begin to outline and write their own. I’m excited to read their completed work!

Odds and Ends–

I was so happy to meet with many families at our Back to School night! If you were unable to make it, I sent home all of the goodies in the student’s Friday Folders. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me!

Each Friday, I will send home a Friday Folder. Please look through that with our child and go over the Peek at the Week. In the future, tests will be included in the folder to be signed and returned as well. Please send the folder back with your child on Monday mornings!

If you are in need of a district calendar, they can be found online through the district site.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Thank you,

Miss Gentile