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April 20 – Yom Ha’atzmaut

  Dear Third Grade Families, Spring is starting to come, as the weather gets warmer. We want to thank everyone for their patience in re-rescheduling our Brooklyn Bridge trip. We hope to have that in our books VERY soon! Math In math, we have come to the end of our bar modeling unit. This strategy for reading word problems carefully and organizing information can be successful for some students, though we know it is not the best strategy for all. During the week, we discussed the positives of drawing a picture to represent the word problem, be it a bar...
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April 13 – The Science of Bridges!

Dear Third Grade Families, Welcome back! After a week off from school, students have been back at it — working on bar modeling, writing, the Brooklyn Bridge and book clubs. Math: We started our return by reviewing addition and subtraction bar models. One student mentioned that bar models are used to help us organize word problems, and help us know what type of math we need to do. After that, we inferred what a multiplication bar model would look like based on strategies we already know. A multiplication bar model is a mix between drawing a picture of equal groups...
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March 29 – Third Grade Celebrity Edition

Dear Third Grade Families, Dear Third Grade Families, We were WOWED by all of the Third Grader’s costumes yesterday as they eagerly came dressed as celebrities. We had Simone Biles, Gordon Ramsay, JoJo Siwa, Lionel Messi, Roger Federer, a secret service agent, Aly Raisman, Drew Brees, Madonna, Jimi Hendrix, Jessica Alba, Stephen Curry, Andre Agassi, and more! The day started by student being interviewed by Giuliana Rancic (aka Hilary) on our red carpet (We will be sending a picture slide show over break of all the wonderful costumes walking down the red carpet). Later in the day, we wrote a perspective...
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March 23 – Our 100 Boxes Party Theme is…

Dear Third Grade Families, This week was one of new beginnings. We started new Social Studies, writing AND math units! As well, so many students have brought in money to support Hannah Senesh’s Penny Pot Drive, lead by the 6th Grade. Please make sure to keep sending in spare change to bring us to first place! Math We are working on division. We learned two new vocabulary words this week: quotient and remainder. Quotient is similar to “answer,” though we tried to reinforce that it does NOT mean the whole number, like the answer would mean in addition or multiplication. Remainder...
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March 16 — Glass, Glass Everywhere

                               Dear Third Grade Families, We had a wonderful time seeing so many of you last night, at Parent Teacher Conferences! Your students have made such strides in their work, specifically shouting out their progress in information writing from November to March, we were thrilled to share their endeavors with you. Math This week, in math, we tied our 2- or 3-digit by 1-digit multiplication unit together by figuring out that all of the strategies we learned (repeated addition, break apart method, using a place value mat...
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March 9 — Using the Power of Our Voice

Dear Third Grade families, This was a hard week for some students, as we went through a transition in the team. On Monday, we had a wonderful celebration for our associate, Alisa, with students showing her the ways in which they will miss her. She also read aloud two books that were about the importance of memory and imagination. We wish her luck as the fourth grade maternity leave replacement, and are thrilled that she is literally right next-door! A quick shout out to all of our wonderful chaperones on Wednesday’s trip to UrbanGlass! We appreciated your questions and support throughout. It...
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Happy Purim and Happy March!!

Dear Third Grade Families, March has come in like a lion, with it’s wacky weather!  Over the next four weeks, we’ll see if it goes out like a lamb. For reading, we are working on a new Book Club system. In writing, we are coming to an end of our persuasive speech unit. In social studies, this week, we ended out New Amsterdam study by talking about the first Jews to come to New York in 1654 and started learning about the Erie Canal! As well, we had a BLAST celebrating Purim with our 7th Grade Buddies! READING: In reading,...
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New Amsterdam Explorations

Dear Third Grade families, Happy February! We are gradually returning to our full third grade selves after a week of colds and flues. We hope you all a healthy start to February! This week in Writing, students continued working on their persuasive speeches. Last week, we learned that in addition to writing persuasive speeches focused on making a positive change to the world around us, writers also think about people, things, and ideas that deserve attention. At the beginning of the week, third graders practiced writing powerful thesis statements, with a focus on hooking their audience into their speech. Some...
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A Trip Back in Time

Dear Third Grade Families, What an experience we had, this past Wednesday, traveling back to the mid-1600s! On Wednesday, the Third Grade went on a field trip to The Wyckoff House Museum, in Brooklyn. It is the oldest standing house in New York City, built in 1652. During this year, Petrus Stuyvesant was Director of New Amsterdam, but Dutch and European Jews had not yet arrived in the New World. Before Stuyvesant, the people of New Amsterdam had already seen six Directors come and go, and they were working hard to prosper as a colony. By 1652, Pieter Wyckoff had...
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Discovering the Power of the People

Dear Third Grade Families, This week marked the beginning of a new unit on persuasive writing! Before students start writing their own opinion pieces, they are working as a group to craft a persuasive and convincing speech about why Choice Time should be incorporated into the third grade schedule. Once complete, this speech will be presented to Shelley for her consideration. Students worked in partnerships to brainstorm reasons to support the thesis statement. While the majority of third graders are in favor of Choice Time, there are a few who chose to support the counter argument. After students shared their...
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