The third, fourth, and fifth-graders have dedicated time in their classes to focus on what “thankful” means. They have listened to stories and developed strategies to demonstrate what it means to be thankful and thoughtful. For ELA, third-grade students read, listened to, discussed, and wrote about the characteristics of animals, including vertebrates versus invertebrates and warm-blooded versus cold-blooded organisms. They practiced the suffixes -ed and -ing, as well as the prefix un-. At the same time, the 4th & 5th graders read several Thanksgiving-themed texts and focused on making inferences. They also worked on helping verbs in grammar and continuing with ‘r’ controlled vowels, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots in spelling.
For Math, the third-grade goals of this unit are to fluently add within 1,000 using algorithms based on place value and properties of operations, and to use place value understanding to compose and decompose numbers. In fourth grade, students began Unit 3, which focuses on "Using Operations with Fractions." While the fifth graders are continuing to work on Multiplying and Dividing Fractions.
For Social Studies/Science, third- and fourth-grade students will conduct several experiments focused on erosion, deposition & the water cycle, as well as create a Land & Water Dictionary. While across the hall, the fifth graders are working hard to complete their individual state projects.
