Mr. Zhang's Grade 3s

 Hello Parents, No pictures this week.  For math we kept on doing geometry. We recently just finished translations and are in the process of making some tessellation art. You will get to see those next week. As for writing, we started our story writing unit. We focused on the structure of a story this week; character, setting, problem, solution, beginning, middle, and end. Next week we will start some basic planning for the story they will write for me. For science, this week, we are doing our bridge challenge. On Tuesday, students researched about bridges; what makes bridges strong, what are they made of, types of bridges, interesting facts about bridges. They started building their bridges yesterday and we will test them out next week. In addition, Ms. Stringer and I are thinking of going for a community walk next week so students can label and sketch out an actual bridge. If the weather is nice we will definitely let you know! Reminders 1. library is on Tuesday, some students have n

This week, we started our geometry unit. We learned about what is and is not a polygon, differece between regular and irregular polygon, right angles and angles in comparison to right angles, and different line segments. For writing, we did a lot of work on when to use commas. The biggest takeway was that we can use a connecting word and a comma to merge two simple sentences together. Finally, for building, we built spaghetti marshmallow towers, as well as coffee stir bridges. Finally, students made their own pysanky eggs and some students applied the wax on the egg themselves. Reminders 1. Library is on Tuesday, please bring your books 2. Our school recently got a subscription to raz kids/a-z learning. Students practiced getting on the website and recording their reading. It would be awesome for students to