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What’s new in Room 216?
MRS. O’CONNOR’S 3RD GRADE CLASS
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Olivia is carefully studying
the properties of a rock
sample during science time!
“Queen Olivia” & her
gigantic Minion, Kevin, sure
wowed the audience!
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In Reading Workshop we applied our knowledge of
adjectives to the concept of “character traits.” After
reading a nonfiction piece about Harriet Tubman, we
picked adjectives to describe her. We then had to find
evidence in a short text to support why we chose the
character traits we did. Tell someone at home what you
wrote about, how did you describe Ms. Tubman?
Math Workshop has been super busy this week!
Using an oversized number line, we rounded numbers to
the nearest ten and hundred. We also played fact BINGO
which reinforced quick recall of basic addition and
subtraction facts. The final topic we discussed was how
to use mental math and the hundreds chart to quickly
and accurately add two digit by two digit numbers. See
how fast you can solve this problem: 47 + 43! What
strategy did you use?
In Science we started to think about rocks! Students
were given a variety of rock samples and were asked to
make careful observations and then document the
properties they noticed. We discovered that matter is in
rocks...even air (AKA a gas)!
Upcoming Events &Reminders:
PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES: If you have not
signed up for a conference but would like to meet with
me on October 21st or October 27th, please send me an
email and I will let you know which times are still
available!
HARVEST PARTY: 3rd Grade will celebrate their
Harvest Party on Oct. 29th from 2:15-3:00.
NO SCHOOL: There will be no school on Oct. 30th!
PICTURE RETAKE: Picture retakes are Wed. Oct. 21st.
DADS AND DONUTS: October 21st and 22nd from 8-9.
Related Arts Schedule:
Monday: Music
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: Library
Friday: Music
Have a good weekend!