Week of October 5

Amazon.com: Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (9780385390286): Winter, Jonah, Evans, Shane W.: Books

Tuesday, October 6.  We learned more about the Hoosier Hills Food Bank today. The HHFB and its volunteers take action to enhance community wellness.  After taking sketch notes about the foodbank, we wrote cards to our families about an optional cereal collection for the food bank.  During Reading Workshop, we listened to Lillian’s Right to Vote by Jonah Winter.  This book is described as a “celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” We also discussed a POINT OF VIEW book on Epic called “Does Voting Matter?”  The Thirdlanders are reading books in this series independently and will write about their own point of view on their topics later in the week.  In math, we worked on interpreting bar graphs. 

Wednesday, October 7.  In our math class, we compared bar graphs to picture graphs.  For Writing Workshop, we talked more about adjectives.  We wrote paragraphs about favorite instruments and underlined our adjectives.  During Reading Workshop, we worked with partners to discuss Lillian’s Right to Vote.  We are working on asking and answering questions about fictional texts.  We also paired up to work on a word work activity.  

Thursday, October 8.  Today was fabulous.  We began with finishing up our word work activity.  Then we moved on to math, where we did a “count around” with 3’s, then 6’s, then 9’s.  We made observations about how the multiples of 3, 6 and 9 were the same and how they were different.  During Reading Workshop, we had a whole group discussion of Lillian’s Right to Vote.  We talked about how some questions are more important to the story than others.  We went outside under the big tent to read our independent books. Then we ventured down to the creek to look for fossils.  After our fossil hunt, we wrote outside for ten minutes.  We ended our day with a delightful extra recess.  Fun times in 3rdLand.

Friday, October 9.  We’re having a busy Friday.  We worked on some tricky math problems in our math book. These problems had to do with using information from bar graphs.  In the afternoon, we’ll be measuring our radish plants.  Some have grown in light and some have grown in dark.  We’ll make some observations about our data.  A great week. 

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