First blog post of the year!

Thanks for checking out our blog! This is a place where we will post what we are learning in each subject as well as some other fun things we have been up to. Every Friday we will work as a class to complete a blog post. I will also try my hardest to upload pics (see below for one from our first week)

We have had a great first few weeks of school in third grade! In reading we have been learning about nonfiction and identifying text features. It is important for us to be able to find the title, headings, bold words, photographs, charts, labels captions, glossary, and index! We will continue to read nonfiction throughout the year. NewsELA is a great website that has a lot of current news articles that are written for kids. We have also gotten our first copy of Time for Kids and will be reading these in small groups and independently. This week we have started our new unit on characters and character traits.

In writing we have been working on the basics of grammar: identifying types of nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. We will be starting our word work next week and will continue to work on sight word fluency. Our first big writing project is a personal narrative. 

In math we have been working on addition and subtraction problems (single and multistep) as well as rounding. It is important to know that we must underline when solving a problem to show what we are looking for. We must also label our answers to get full credit! Our next unit will be geometry (identifying shapes and their attributes)

In science we are finishing up our solar system unit! Next we will be moving into our first social studies unit on communities and the economy.

Check out a picture from our first week of school! This was a fun getting to know you activity where we had to put together a giant puzzle..without talking. The puzzle is now hanging in our room with all our names on it :)

Thanks for reading!

-Ms. Sullivan