What is astronomy, and why is it important?The Chat team was fortunate to speak with astronomist Summer Ash from Columbia University's Department of Astronomy. Summer is also a science writer and is the resident astrophysicist on the Rachel Maddow Show. You can learn more about Summer by listening to our podcast and visiting SummerAsh.com. Tune in to The Chat with Mrs. Burns's Third Grade every Friday. Click here to listen to and subscribe to The Chat via Apple Podcasts. Click here to let us know what you think, and suggest guests and topics for upcoming shows. App development team: prototyping our appThe team's been working hard on learning to code by completing puzzles in Swift Playgrounds. They are beginning to collaborate on some ideas for their app's design. Math: Working within 1000After playing Close to 100 and an assessment on addition and subtraction within 100 at the beginning of the week, we moved into working within 1000. To start, students made a 1000 chart and used landmark numbers to find numbers on the chart. This helps students understand relationship between numbers, as well as patterns. We finished the week with a fun task: Thomas and Neil were the first to complete this tricky task correctly! Winter Concert and PartyWe will be celebrating winter with our holiday concert and classroom parties on December 21. The concert schedule is below, and I will pass on information about our classroom party soon. 1st Grade- 9:45AM 2nd Grade- 10:30AM 3rd Grade -1:00PM 4th Grade -1:45PM Dismissal 2:30PM Informational writing: preparing to publish The students are editing rough drafts and beginning to publish their final informational texts. For this final informational text, students are expected to use everything they've learned over the course of this unit to produce a text independently. Good informational writing teaches the reader all about a topic of the student's choice and includes the elements on the informational writing checklist. Native American ProjectStudents dove into researching Native American tribes using the provided resources. We learned that several Great Lakes tribes (Ottawa, Potawatomi, Chippewa, and more) lived right here in River Forest. The kids were interested to learn that the corner of North Avenue and Thatcher was a large hub for local tribes due to the proximity of the river and fertile soil. As students gather research, they will organize and publish their work online on our Native Americans of the Great Lakes website. Their written work is due on December 21; each tribe will create a movie or other demonstration after we return from winter break. Reader's workshop: |
Friday, December 21, 2018 Friday, December 21, 2018 Monday, December 24, 2018 - Friday, January 5, 2019 Monday, January 7, 2018 | Winter Concert and Party Early dismissal, 2:30PM Winter Break Return to 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
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