Raney's Rock Stars: Week Four

This week we worked on sorting words by a specific rule or set of rules. Students were grouped together based across the whole third grade. On Wednesday, students met with their Word Work Group and learned the rule of the week. Our SeeSaw post this week is a reading of your child's words. In Global Citizenship, students continued their research on recycling and surveyed our school to find out how much we recycle. In Math, we focused on addition strategies and completed an addition table to use as a tool when solving math problems. In Science, we learned about pollination and went out to our school garden to help pollinate various flowers as well as find the stigma and pollen dusters on them. In Second Step (our social skills curriculum) we focused on what it means to take another's perspective on a situation. Students were paired off and described a chair from their point of view. From there, each student made connections to how our points of view can change when we see another person's side to a story. Lastly, on Thursday we celebrated earning over 2000 tokens with pajamas and bringing a stuffy to school. These kiddos certainly are Rock Stars!

Questions to spark conversation:
-What are you reading in reading group?
-What is the "Make Ten" strategy for addition?
-What does it mean to take another's perspective?
-Where can you find the stigma on a flower? Why is the stigma important?