We looked again this week at 'print in our environment' and how we can interpret it. The students analysed the text features in the poster for the 'sense of place' competition. Please encourage your child to take part in this competition. They can use their 'work on writing' time in class to work on their piece after the break.
We continued thinking about the use of adverbs in sentences and tried to finish off any outstanding writing. The students are choosing pieces to publish and therefore going back and revising and editing previous work. We continued with cursive handwriting and spelling routines.
We continued this week with shape and space work. We thought about the properties of triangles and how triangles can be different from each other, and also quadrilaterals. This led into discussions about parallel lines and angles. The students made 'angle eaters' and did a hunt for right angles in our environment. We also looked for angles bigger and smaller than right angles.
Unit of Inquiry
Sam brought in his cello on Monday to share. The other studnets wre very interested in how it works, what it's made of and the kind of sounds it can produce.
This week, the students chose an idea to represent with sounds in the Garageband programme. The purpose was to think about how the tool affects how they can express the idea.
The students updated their portfolios. Each post requires many steps. The students are getting quicker at independently creating posts and are developing their technological fluency.
After the break, we will start our 'where we are in time and palce' unit of inquiry.
The students enjoyed visiting the Grade Five Market Day on Tuesday!
December 10th is Human Rights Day. You may like to watch this video explaining the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Apart from continued work on spelling, we practised using new adverbs to build sentences that create a mental image for the reader. We spent a lot of our time working on the information reports, as outlined in the Unit of Inquiry section.
In mathematics this week, the students worked on their understanding of the concept of area. They had to create shapes with an area of four squares using square and triangular puzzle pieces. They also had to figure out strategies to find the perimeter and area of their foot. The students practised their 'careful reading' in mathematics by answering questions about the sign up sheet for next week's Grade Five Market Day event. This invovled mathematics skills such as calculating elapsed time and also some of our reading strategies like tuning in to interesting words, inferring meaning and using text features. The students also revisited some graphs and charts.
Unit of Inquiry
Our main focus this week was completing the information reports about musical instruments. This process involved choosing an instrument, developing conceptual research questions, locating the relevant information using a range of suitable search engines and databases including Britannica, KidsInfoBits and BrainPop, reorganising the information and then presenting it using appropriate text features. On Friday, all the the students in Grade Three shared their reports in the MPR.
We are a Grade 3 class in Singapore. We hope you enjoy sharing our learning journey with us this year. Our class teacher is Ms. Vicky and our Teacher's Assistant is Ms. Noreen.
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