Reading: understanding plot
After reading 'Because of Winn-Dixie', we worked together to construct the details leading up to the climax and what occured after. Students then practiced constructing story mountains for their Westward Expansion novels.
Persuasive writing
Students reviewed the persuasive writing checklist and met with writing partners to get feedback on their persuasive speeches. Students are working hard to address their audience directly through questions and answering anticipated concerns, developing a strong thesis, and providing good reasons to back their claim or idea. Here's Luke's speech.
Math
We started our 5th unit (Cube Patterns, Arrays, and Multiples of 10), which further studies the relationship between multiplication and division. The main ideas for this unit include
SImple machines
Students worked together to create a vehicle and a pendulum. Emmi explains one use for a pendulum.
Student-led conferences
Spring conferences are coming up in 2 weeks! As in the fall, we will be doing student-led conferences. Your kids are busy preparing for the meeting, collecting evidence of learning and setting goals for the rest of the school year.. Bringing your child is not mandatory, but I HIGHLY encourage this. It is a great way to demonstrate the responsibility of students to take ownership of their own learning, as well as practice for 4th grade student-led conferences. Plus, the kids are always proud and eager to talk about what they've learned. We can't wait to share all the good things we've been doing!
App dev: teaching what we've learned
The App Dev team is so excited to share what they've learned about coding with others, so we invited all the 1st grade classes to visit our classroom. The students showed the younger kids the apps they have created, and then taught them a coding lesson in Tynker.
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
Friday, March 2, 2018 Monday, March 5, 2018 Monday, Moarch 26 - Friday, March 30, 2018 Monday, April 2, 2018 |
Evening Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences
Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences- NO SCHOOL Casmir Pulaski Day- NO SCHOOL Spring Break- NO SCHOOL Classes resume |
Contact
Mrs. Karrin Burns
Third Grade Teacher
Lincoln School
511 Park Avenue
River Forest, Illinois 60305
[email protected]
(708) 366 - 7340 x 8026
@MrsBurnsD90
Third Grade Teacher
Lincoln School
511 Park Avenue
River Forest, Illinois 60305
[email protected]
(708) 366 - 7340 x 8026
@MrsBurnsD90
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Student-led conferences
Spring conferences are coming up in 2 weeks! As in the fall, we will be doing student-led conferences. Your kids are busy preparing for the meeting, collecting evidence of learning and setting goals for the rest of the school year.. Bringing your child is not mandatory, but I HIGHLY encourage this. It is a great way to demonstrate the responsibility of students to take ownership of their own learning, as well as practice for 4th grade student-led conferences. Plus, the kids are always proud and eager to talk about what they've learned. We can't wait to share all the good things we've been doing!
Two episodes of The Chat!
2/9 What can we do to keep our hearts healthy?2/16 How has video changed learning?
Last week, we welcomed special guest Riley Norman from the American Heart Association to find out what we can do to keep our hearts healthy.
This week, we were lucky to speak to Philipe Carvalho, Owner and Creative Director of Mirar Productions. He discussed how video has changed the way we learn with The Chat team.
Tune in to The Chat with Mrs. Burns's Third Grade every Friday. Don't forget to subscribe to The Chat via Apple Podcasts.
Click here to let us know what you think, and suggest guests and topics for upcoming shows!
This week, we were lucky to speak to Philipe Carvalho, Owner and Creative Director of Mirar Productions. He discussed how video has changed the way we learn with The Chat team.
Tune in to The Chat with Mrs. Burns's Third Grade every Friday. Don't forget to subscribe to The Chat via Apple Podcasts.
Click here to let us know what you think, and suggest guests and topics for upcoming shows!
Math
To finish our unit on perimeter, area, and polygons, our focus was on characteristics of triangles and quadrilaterals. Students learned to describe and classify several quadrilaterals and triangles. Unit 5 is titled 'Cube Patterns, Arrays, and Multiples of 10'. This unit develops students’ ideas about counting and quantity, place value and the structure of the base-10 number system, the meaning of operations with whole numbers, the development of computational fluency, and generalizations about numbers and operations.
We will focus on the meaning and structure of multiplication and division and the relationship between them, solving multiplication and division problems, multiplying by multiples of 10, and learning the remaining multiplication facts to ??×??.
We will focus on the meaning and structure of multiplication and division and the relationship between them, solving multiplication and division problems, multiplying by multiples of 10, and learning the remaining multiplication facts to ??×??.
Mindfulness
Testing season and school in general can be very stressful for some kids. We try to practice mindfulness in our classroom when possible. Last week, we had a visit from local resident Barb deHaan, who led our class in some mindfulness exercises.
App Dev team update: creating apps in Swift Playgrounds, Tynker, and Scratch, Jr.!
The team worked to create and code their own games using their favorite coding platforms, Here's two awesome examples: Dragon Quest (New and Improved) by Kaz and Save the Penguin by Anna. If your child is working on the App Dev team, see your child's work on Seesaw
Mood Monster's Yoga Workshop is coming along! We are still taking photos for the individual yoga interfaces. We hope to have the app ready in spring.
Persuasive writing:
considering our audience
Last week, we discussed developing a strong thesis, and identifying reasons and examples to support a thesis statement. This week, students learned the importance of considering the audience, and learned some ways to address the audience directly through writing: asking questions, and mentioning possible concerns or worries of the reader. I think our persuasive writing unit will be our best work yet! The kids seem to have a knack for persuasion.
Art Appreciation: Frida Kahlo
As special thank you to Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Leibundguth for sharing artist Frida Kahlo with our class! After a wonderful story and short history of the artist, the parents led the kids in a very fun self-portrait creation workshop. It was very fun, and we all loved the hands-on opportunity!
Reader's workshop:
Westward expansion literature circles continue
We are nearing the end of our Westward Expnasion literature Circles! This week, in addition to studying the character, we talked about cause and effect, and the story 'mountain': as characters move toward the climax, he/she encounters hurdles along the way. Next week, we will continue to look at this, and students will create their own story 'mountain' for their novel.
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Upcoming events
Monday, February 19, 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018 Friday, March 2, 2018 Monday, March 5, 2018 Monday, Moarch 26 - Friday, March 30, 2018 Monday, April 2, 2018 |
President's Day- NO SCHOOL (Professional Development for staff)
Evening Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences- NO SCHOOL Casmir Pulaski Day- NO SCHOOL Spring Break- NO SCHOOL Classes resume |
Contact
Mrs. Karrin Burns
Third Grade Teacher
Lincoln School
511 Park Avenue
River Forest, Illinois 60305
[email protected]
(708) 366 - 7340 x 8026
@MrsBurnsD90
Third Grade Teacher
Lincoln School
511 Park Avenue
River Forest, Illinois 60305
[email protected]
(708) 366 - 7340 x 8026
@MrsBurnsD90
In what ways does being famous affect your life?
We were so happy and grateful to welcome Food Network's Jeff Mauro to The Chat. Mr. Mauro was extremely gracious, and spent much time answering our questions. We were joined by Mrs. Briggs's class, and it was so much fun! The kids had incredible questions and we learned a lot about the effects of fame on one's life.
Tune in to The Chat with Mrs. Burns's Third Grade every Friday. Don't forget to subscribe to The Chat via Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Click here to let us know what you think, and suggest guests and topics for upcoming shows!
Tune in to The Chat with Mrs. Burns's Third Grade every Friday. Don't forget to subscribe to The Chat via Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud.
Click here to let us know what you think, and suggest guests and topics for upcoming shows!
Designing a wheel and axle machine
How can we build a machine to get a tiger out of a moat? Students are working on building simple machines to accomplish this task, starting with wheel and axle.
More area activities
Students worked week this week to figure area by decomposing large shapes into manageable pieces. Take a look at this example from Luke:
Valentine's Party
Please join us on Valentine's Day! Our classroom party will be Wednesday, February 14 at 2:15PM. The theme of the party is games, and our room parents have been working very hard to plan another outstanding event. If you would like to volunteer, please contact me, and I will connect you with one of our terrific room parents!
Writing a persuasive speech
Students worked on thinking of problems and imaging solutions, as well as writing a big, bold thesis statement for their persuasive argument. Here's a great example from Nolan:
Reader's workshop:
Character studies and theme
We are working on closely studying characters; especially in our read aloud text, Because of Winn-Dixie and the Westward Expansion literature circles. We have also been looking at theme. Our response to reading this week involved answering questions about both. I will post these to your child's Seesaw account over the week-end.
A note about response to reading: we will work the entire year on thinking and responding critically about reading. This skill takes a while to learn, and kids generally have trouble demonstrating this in the beginning. The good thing is, and what I stress in class, is that we practice to get better. I am so proud of the perserverence of these kids! Take a look at Lily's really great response.
A note about response to reading: we will work the entire year on thinking and responding critically about reading. This skill takes a while to learn, and kids generally have trouble demonstrating this in the beginning. The good thing is, and what I stress in class, is that we practice to get better. I am so proud of the perserverence of these kids! Take a look at Lily's really great response.
A message from The Chat team
Harrison wants to know, "Do you have any historical figures in your family?"
Upcoming events
Tuesday - Thursday, February 6 -8, 2018
Monday, February 12, 2018 Tuesday, February 13, 2018 Wednesday, February 14, 2018 Monday, February 19, 2018 Thursday, March 1, 2018 Friday, March 2, 2018 |
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Lincoln's Birthday- NO SCHOOL Professional Development- NO SCHOOL Valentine's Day Party President's Day- NO SCHOOL (Professional Development for staff) Evening Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences- NO SCHOOL |
Contact
Mrs. Karrin Burns
Third Grade Teacher
Lincoln School
511 Park Avenue
River Forest, Illinois 60305
[email protected]
(708) 366 - 7340 x 8026
@MrsBurnsD90
Third Grade Teacher
Lincoln School
511 Park Avenue
River Forest, Illinois 60305
[email protected]
(708) 366 - 7340 x 8026
@MrsBurnsD90