Next week we are having Parent/Teacher Conferences. Let me know as soon as possible if you need to reschedule. I want to get together with every parent to share the many advances each student has made. You can share with me personal insights to help your student reach the many goals of third grade. Today, we had a fascinating hands-on science lesson about DNA. The students worked with codes to figure out how DNA contributed to the attributes of life. In this case the attributes belonged to different breeds of dogs. The third graders will have one more Reed Biology Outreach class.
On December 7th we will take TriMet to release our salmon. We will need chaperones for this outing. Please let me know if you can accompany our class. It will be bittersweet to say goodbye to the little salmon, which the students studied closely as they emerged from their eggs. At the same time our third graders have been doing an amazing job of researching their particular stage of the salmon cycle. Next, they will create a three-dimensional representation of each stage of the salmon’s life cycle.
We are also writing, reading, and performing poetry this week. Finally, we are enjoying working with two digit addition and subtraction problems. The students quickly understood how to round numbers to the nearest ten in order to do estimation and double check, verify, their computations. In addition, during calendar math the students are examining polygon patterns, and they are using Fahrenheit and Celsius measurements.

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