We've made it through the first couple of weeks of third grade now and things are beginning to run smoothly. We have adjusted to new teaching and learning styles as well as new schedules and routines. I am excited by the learning that I see happening everyday.
We have just finished up a math unit on graphing and are beginning work on place value. Your student will be working with much bigger numbers, and learning to round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.
Ms. Duncan is teaching the class all about energy, including light energy and heat energy. We have learned some big vocabulary words including transparent, translucent and opaque. Your student should be able to tell you what energy is.
We've started learning cursive and the students are doing so well and really working hard. Ask them to show you what they've learned, but I caution you on teaching them new letters as your cursive may be different from what I will teach them. Tell them to be patient and learn to write their letters the correct way. Thanks!
We are reading everyday and sorting and learning new vocabulary.
Here are this week's words. 1 .slosh 2. frayed 3. overcast 4. mammoth 5. furious 6. assist 7. task 8. lurk 9. orbit 10. bothersome
In my next post I will be explaining the 20 Book Challenge. Ask your student to tell you what they know about this cool new third grade program.
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