Happy First Month of 3rd Grade:
Can you believe it's been a month already? We are already well into our routines and it has been amazing to see these brilliant young minds make this community their own.
Literacy: Monitoring & Visualizing!
This week was spent wrapping up our thinking strategy of meta-cognition with monitoring! Students received their own "monitor marks" to help them keep track of their thinking and be purposeful when confused. Through this strategy, we spent time practicing and then asked to think about their monitoring on their own!
Our next strategy to encourage reading comprehension is visualizing! We spent time creating our own mental images during a shared read aloud, and then explaining them! Students were surprised at how different theirs differed from each other and from the author/illustrator! Why is this? Our schema! Our own background knowledge shapes our understanding and perspective!
Math: Unit 1!
This week was spent wrapping up our thinking strategy of meta-cognition with monitoring! Students received their own "monitor marks" to help them keep track of their thinking and be purposeful when confused. Through this strategy, we spent time practicing and then asked to think about their monitoring on their own!
Our next strategy to encourage reading comprehension is visualizing! We spent time creating our own mental images during a shared read aloud, and then explaining them! Students were surprised at how different theirs differed from each other and from the author/illustrator! Why is this? Our schema! Our own background knowledge shapes our understanding and perspective!
Math: Unit 1!
We began unit one with review of time and rounding. We will continue to review and build on these strategies! Next week we will look at displaying, interpreting, and displaying data, as well as the concepts of multiplication and division!Math homelinks should not be taking extended amounts of time, or causing extensive frustration. Please contact me if this is happening. We are learning the skills daily in class, and we have discussed what the role "learner" means. It is our job to ask questions for understanding as our community should be a safe place to ask questions and make mistakes. Sometimes learning is a healthy struggle; not everything comes easy! Learning this can be hard and frustrating, but that helps us become stronger!
A Peek into Next Week:
A Peek into Next Week:
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