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Third Grade 2017 – 2018 Blog

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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Feb. 9: Persuading Our Audience

Dear Third Grade Families, What an amazing first week of February we had. The weather has become nippy again, but that can’t stop us from all of our learning! Writing We are working on how to write multiple paragraphs in a persuasive speech. We recognized that the work we’d been doing for the first two weeks of writing was actually just for our introduction! In persuasive writing, the paragraphs are broken down in the following way: Introduction A hook sentence to snap the audience into your speech A thesis statement about what your speech is about An important person or...
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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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Dear Third Grade Families, What a week of change! First with the weather — can you believe how warm it has gotten, especially compared to last weekend? Then, more importantly, with the mixing of half groups! Third Graders rose to the occasion, and have smoothly transitioned into their new half groups. Academically this week, we have been diligent investigators in Social Studies and math by learning more about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and bar modeling (respectively). In Social Studies, we concluded our study of Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott. After listening to a read aloud of Rosa, by Nikki...
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A Snowy First Day Back – Happy New Year!

Dear Third Grade Families, Happy New Year! What a whirlwind of a first week back! We hope that everyone stayed safe during Thursday’s  “Bomb Cyclone” winter storm. Over our few days back in school, we started a new math unit as well as a mini social studies unit on the Civil Rights movement. In math, we have moved onto word problems, for addition and subtraction. Word problems integrate literacy with math and are connections, for students, between school and the real world. To visualize the concepts in a word problem, students can use the bar model method as a strategy...
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