The Main Idea Is....

I am a little light on pictures this week. I have taught a couple of students how to use the iPad to take photographs so hopefully having a couple of student photographers in the coming weeks will help out!

Writing:

We worked on writing how-to pieces this week. The students first listed topics they could teach someone how to do. Then they wrote their first how-to. I then had them try to teach a partner.  Through that process they discovered that they had to add some details or pictures to their how-to’s to make them easier to do.

After Thanksgiving we will be writing a class cook book with how to cook our favorite holiday recipes. If your child can help out a little in the kitchen over Thanksgiving that would be wonderful experience before they write their own recipes!

Mrs. Cox learning how to draw a Ninja Turtle

Adding to the words so that Mrs. Cox could do a better turtle. :)

How to jump rope

How to tie your shoe and
How to play Slap Jack

How to draw an Angry Bird

How to draw a panda

Reading:

Our focus in reading this week was on Main Idea and Details. We really focused in on Non-fiction and will look at Fiction next week.

The students read many different books and articles and pulled out the main idea and details into different graphic organizers.

We also did a little with beginning/middle/end. The students read a book of their choice with a buddy and created a beginning/middle/end acorn.

Phonics

We finished up our study of pronouns this week. One of the rotations was to read a book and write sentences with pronouns onto the table. The kids loved being able to write on the table. J

Adding to our pronoun table

Social Studies

We have started our unit on how people use their environment. We have discussed that our environment is anything around us and natural resources are things we get from our environment. The students have read about natural resources we use for food, clothing and shelter. Next week we will discuss pollution and how people can hurt their environment.

Math

This week we did some work with line segments, shapes, and measuring. These are all introductory skills for 3^rd grade so we also focused on 2-digit addition with regrouping. Next week we will tackle 2-digit subtraction!