“Learning How To Learn
Is Life’s Most Important Skill.” Tony Muzan
Third Grade
Mrs. Riccitelli
SO MUCH TO LEARN, SO LITTLE TIME!
We’ve been learning so many new
things this quarter!
Reading &
Writing
We have been reading great
nonfiction books in our guided reading groups this quarter! We’re improving our nonfiction reading skills
and learning lots of interesting facts!
Did you know facts can be tasty?
That’s right, we’re collecting
‘FRENCH FRY
FACTS’!
Our class is also working on report
writing, poetry, friendly letters, descriptive writing, grammar lessons,
spelling activities, self-selected reading and notebook response, nightly
reading and soooo much more!
Math
We have learned this year that math
can be very fun! As we continue to work
toward mastery of our multiplication facts, we are also learning about
‘Fair Shares’, an Investigations unit focused
on fractions. Other math concepts we
continue to work on are problem solving, measurement,
mental math, finding perimeter &
area,
addition & subtraction of larger
numbers, working with money and decimals, …
Science &
Social Studies
Wow!
We are studying some awesome topics this quarter for science and social
studies!
Our science work is focused on
FORCES, ENERGY, MATTER & MACHINES.
Learning about states of matter like liquids, solids and gases is very
cool! We’re also working on a special ‘race
car’ project and doing great science experiments, like making slime!
For social studies this quarter our
focus is on our nation! We’re
discovering ‘HOW’ we became the
It’s helping us learn even more stuff about
our country and it’s written just for kids, we can’t wait for read aloud time
each day!
Technology
Our ‘PowerPoint’ presentations on
Planets in the Solar System are almost finished! We’re really excited and we can’t wait to
show off our hard work to our parents!
We’ve also started working on our
next topic, SHARKS!
We continue to use the computers in
our classroom for special reading centers, assignment work, educational games
and research & collecting data.