Crew Learning Expedition: This week, I have been thoroughly impressed by the creativity, effort, and excitement about creating a product in expedition!!! Students were asked to create a piece of art that represents something about American, Renaissance, or personal culture. Students cannot wait to share these with you next Tuesday morning at our “Gallery Opening.” HINTS AT HOME: What are you creating and what does it say about culture? | Writing/Language Workshop: Students have been hard at work in writing their tall tales. Students have done such an excellent job of taking apart the tall tales that we have written, that the stories they are creating sound like they are already published works! Next Tuesday, we will be sharing our tall tales with Ms. Jody’s kindergarten class. HINTS AT HOME: Tell me about the process of writing your tall tale. Where did you get your ideas from? What is your favorite part? What has been a challenge? |
Math: We have finished this unit on multiplication. The unit ended with a look back at map scales and coin toss probability. We will take the assessment for the unit tomorrow. HINTS AT HOME: Continue studying multiplication/division facts at home. There are tons of great internet/ipad/cell phone games/resources that make practicing these fun. | Reading Workshop: This week we finished our reading theme called “How Does Electricity Work?” We continued practicing the reading strategy of synthesizing (where you put together pieces of information as you read to form new ideas). HINTS AT HOME: Keep reading over the break! |
| We enjoyed a great week of climbing! It was fun to watch students celebrate the rewards of working towards/reaching personal goals, showing perseverance, and taking risks. A big thank you to all of our volunteer belayers. We could not do this without you!     |
| Gallery Opening: Tuesday November 22nd from 8:40 to 10:00AM To wrap up our expedition study of art and culture, students will be creating their own art pieces that share something about culture. We will be working on this next week, and students will decide whether they want to create a piece that shares about personal/family culture or Renaissance culture. To simulate a gallery opening, where parents will be invited to come view and ask questions about our art, we are going to make this a fun occasion where we will ask families and students to get dressed up. We will serve scones and tea. Please save the date and plan on coming to see the finale of our expedition! |
| Crew Learning Expedition: Students enjoyed this unit of learning about other cultures through art. We have analyzed art and read text to learn about cowboy, pioneer, and Mexican American culture. Students have deepened their understanding of what culture is and how you can learn about culture using art. HINTS AT HOME: What did you see in the art you looked at and what did it tell you about culture? | Writing/Language Workshop: We have enjoyed being readers of TALL TALES and this week we began the process of becoming writers of tall tales. Before starting, we took some time to brainstorm our main character, setting, and the plot of our story. Today, we looked at mentor text tall tales to use for inspiration for crafting a lead. HINTS AT HOME: What are you enjoying about this genre study? What challenges you? Tell me about your tall tale. |
| Math: This new unit is building conceptual understanding about multiplication and division. We have been exploring how to solve mult/div problems using pictures, arrays, shortcuts, and fact triangles. HINTS AT HOME: Please begin a routine of studying multiplication facts at home. By the end of third grade, students are expected to show mastery of facts 0-12. | Reading Workshop: This week we continued our reading theme called “How Does Electricity Work?” We continued practicing the reading strategy of synthesizing (where you put together pieces of information as you read to form new ideas). HINTS AT HOME: Set a routine for 3rd graders to be reading every night. Have your child share with you what he/she can synthesize from the text and how it helps to better understand the text. |
A Great Day of Learning at the Denver Art Museum It was exciting to see the students so engaged today listening to our guided tour about Native American art. Students enjoyed learning about past and present art from regions across the United States, including the clothing, baskets, and paintings. Then students got to see more art about the cultures we have been studying. Students are doing a great job on this expedition and discovered how much they can learn about a culture through art. Bravo! Please ask for your child to tell you about what it was like to visit the museum, what art was interesting, an interesting thing that was learned, and what was surprising about this visit. How does this visit support the learning in our expedition? A big thank you to our parent volunteers who helped out today!       |
