Welcome to third grade! I am looking forward to a wonderful year. At the beginning of 2020, the world lost Kobe Bryant, so this year we are called the Watson Mambas. We will build a strong community that works hard, we will give everything our all, and we will never quit. We will be Mamba strong!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We begin remote learning on Wednesday. Our main site will be Google Classroom. We may also use Savvas (math, science, and social studies) and Wonders (reading). They will bring home a blue folder, that they know as their Wednesday folder. In that folder will be a sheet that has their login information and the agenda for the day. The agenda can also be found on the class website, whatsupwatson.weebly.com. That will be the agenda that we follow every week. The only change would be if we do social studies instead of science. The username and password for Savvas and Wonders are the same. It is gls[first name][last initial]26 with Grace2026 as the password. So, an example username is glsrobinw26. The username and password for Google Classroom is similar but it is an email address. It is gls[first name][last initial][email protected] with Grace2026 as the password. So, an example would be [email protected]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reading: I am trying something new this year. Instead of spending 1 week on a topic, we will spend take 2 weeks. That means that the reading tests and spelling tests will be every other Friday. We will take our time and go through grammar, phonics, writing, comprehension strategies such as character traits, and comprehension skills such as visualization. Our essential question for the week is, "what can stories teach us?" We discussed this question and the many lessons that we've learned from the stories/books we've read. In grammar, we are reviewing/reinforcing the difference in complete sentences, fragments, and different types of sentences. Math: We started the year off focusing on multiplication and division. So far we have covered multiplication as repeated addition and multiplication on a number line. They were surprised to learn that even when they are doing addition, they are sometimes multiplying. To finish the week off we will use arrays to solve equations and we will spend some time with the commutative property of multiplication. I encouraged them to continue to practice their math facts at home. The more exposure and practice they have, the easier multiplying and dividing will be. Social Studies: We have a new curriculum this year and I think they will like this one. Each unit has a “project” that they have to complete that helps them understand the overall topic of the unit. Some topics that we will cover are: economics, our environment, landmark and symbols, celebration/holidays, and communities. We will take breaks from the curriculum and hop into our Hispanic Heritage Month unit and Black History Month unit. We started with the "Our Environment" unit. We are learning about different regions in the US, and their similarities and differences. We also will learn about national parks, climate change, renewable resources, nonrenewable resources, and natural resources. Science: Similar to social studies, our science curriculum has a project that they will work on as we go through the unit that is intended to give them a real-life experience with the topic. Like usual, there will be labs and the really cool thing about this curriculum is that we can do labs online. Some topics that we will cover are: motion and forces, electricity and magnetism, weather, climate, life cycles and traits, fossil evidence, and adaptions. We started with motion and forces. The students are excited to design a pinball machine, which is the project they will work on throughout the topic. In this topic, we are learning that when something is moving or changing positions that means motion is occurring. We also learned that in order for something to move and change position, some type of force has to act on it. As we go through the topic we will learn about relative motion, speed, patterns in motion, contact forces, noncontact forces, and balanced and unbalanced forces. Religion: We are starting the year of learning about the Bible. We are learning about its history (original languages, the number of years it took to write it, the number of people God called on during the writing process), the different parts it has (concordance, testaments), and what it means to us as Christians. This unit sets the foundation for our future units, which include The Creation story, Letters from Paul, Abraham, Moses, The Fall to Babel, Joseph, and Issac and Jacob. Every year each grade conducts a chapel service. Each year third grade works with the church to collect cans for the local food pantry. We usually spend time talking about hunger, how it impacts our day to day lives, and ways that we can help people that are hungry, As we continue to talk about hunger, we will jump into our Bibles and read what God says about those less fortunate and what we should do as believers and followers of Christ. How and when we will present our chapel service has yet to be determined but I will let you know as soon as I have more information. Important Information:
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