Week 14 - 15 (November 21 - December 2)
Thanksgiving Celebrations
We spent a great deal of time discussing what Thanksgiving meant years ago and what it has come to mean today. We discussed how the settlers and Native Americans' first contact with one another played out and also what happened afterwards.
The kids felt that today's Thanksgiving was about being thankful for many things in their lives. We used this as an opportunity to write letters of thanks to those that we are most thankful for! Hopefully some of those letter made it to the hands of parents and other family members.
The kids had a blast at the Thanksgiving feast. I took joy in watching them interact with their families and I believed they also took joy in having their family and friends in the same setting at the same time. I hope that you all enjoyed the feast as much as the kids did! The kids and I really appreciate your participation.
Celebrating Dwayne
Thanks to Dwayne's parents we were able to enjoy some very delicious cupcakes during independent reading time, in order to celebrate Dwayne's birthday with him!
Summarizing
3rd grade as a whole has been working on our summarizing and questioning skills. This week Mrs. Pearson came to our classroom after reading the amazing "Rough Face Girl". Their job was to summarize what they had read and to present that to our class. As they partnered up with a the students from out class and read their summaries, our kids asked them questions about their summaries. This helped Mrs. Pearson's class understand what they had forgotten to include in their summary and also helped our students to always ask fro more details and also to use their speaking and listening skills. The kids had a really good time!
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