Today is a school wide spirit day! Take a picture with your pet at home (or a stuffed animal like Anna and I did) and send me a picture! A new week, a new project! In third grade, we read biographies and learn about famous Americans. The skills I want your student to gain from this are citing resources, using more than one resource, summarizing instead of copying, and reading a biography. Those are some high level skills, so I allow the students to choose any American that made this world a better place. I am not picky, but I do push students to prove to me that the person they are picking is worth researching. Each week I will give them a task that they have a week to complete. I am going to keep the tasks small and manageable, typically between two slides of writing a week, while also keeping the other science and social studies days low-key with only small writing requirements. The school has some amazing resources for researching. I created a video to show the new ones (we've already used Brain Pop) and put it below: I put a link to all of these resources in the Helpful Links page as well as in their Science and Social Studies class.
This week starts Step One for your student. Their job will be to pick their famous American and create their title slide. They will also do their first bit of summarizing and write about their famous person as a child. Childhood can include most things before they were famous and while they were still in school. So if something interesting didn't happen until they were in high school, that's fine! You'll notice we went back to a review math today. We will have one more tomorrow and then go into the full swing of new math learning on Wednesday. They will follow a two day pattern. Lesson with a video from me and independent practice problems on day one. Day two will include a more hands on activity and an open math check-in on Zoom. I will send out a meeting invitation to all parents on Tuesdays and Thursday, unless you ask to be excluded from that invitation. Students can join the meeting to practice math more interactively or if they are having trouble. They do not have to join. Also, this is only for math work. I hope to have a Wednesday snack chat for our students' social needs and to say hi to missed friends. That's it for now! Have fun picking your famous American. No rush, you have the entire week! Office Hours: 9:30 - 10:30 1:00 - 2:00 6:00 - 7:30
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