Tuesday, January 17: Lots of work getting our portfolios ready to bring home today. We also worked in our visual writing notebooks. In Math, we solved a two step problem about a hiker named Miranda who was trying to reach a summit. We also practiced AREA and PERIMETER. We practiced some work with ROUNDING numbers to the nearest hundred. If you ever have an opportunity to practice rounding in the real world with your 3rdLander, that would be great practice. Today we talked about shopping for books at Book Corner and rounding up to figure out how much money Dr. H. needed from her husband to pay her bill. 3rdLanders were proud of their portfolio work. I was proud as well!
Thursday, January 19: We had a productive day in 3rdLand. We read a TFK article about different inventions from 2022. We worked in our writer’s notebooks. We learned how to play a game called Round Ball 100s. We practiced for our spelling test. At the end of the day, we worked in our fossils packet. We’ll be working on our fossil reports once we get our notes organized.
Friday, January 20: We learned about grams and kilograms today in math class. We used the pan balance to measure various objects in our classroom. We also continued with our study of AREA and PERIMETER. In the afternoon, we met with partners to discuss The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle. We also took sketchnotes about CRINOIDS, in anticipation of our fossil report. During PAWS time, we took a spelling test and we worked on our own nonfiction research. We went to the library today. It was fun to talk about books with 3rdLanders as they searched for titles.