Weekly Update ( 26th to 30th October)

Important information: Dress rehearsal for the concert is on 2nd November.

Grade 3 concert is on 3rd November at 9:30 am in the 7th floor auditorium!!!

Unit of Inquiry

• Students started working on their summative task. They brainstormed ideas for an invention/innovation.
• Students worked on their summative reflection sheet and posters.
• Students attended a guest lecture by an astronaut Dr.Don Thomas.

Language Arts

• Students chose a writing piece that they would like to publish.
• Students revised and proofread their chosen fictional narrative. Conferring with teachers was done.
• Students worked on publishing their fictional narrative.

Math

• Students practiced two step word problems.
• Students were introduced to word problems with irrelevant information.
• Students practiced rounding off and estimating word problems.

Other activities: Halloween celebration in the class!!!

Thanks!!!

Weekly Update ( 19th Oct to 21st Oct)

Unit of Inquiry

• Students work on the app Timeline 3D.
• Guest lecture by Mr.Pritam.

Language Arts

• Mini lesson on interjections and onomatopoeia.
• Discussion on character traits.
• Read to self and read with someone.
• Students continue working on prewriting and drafting stages of fictional narrative.

Math

• Solving word problems with the help of Math Mountain.

Thanks!!

Weekly Update ( 12th-15th Oct)

Unit of inquiry

• Students chose an invention they would like to research on. They framed questions and did research in the class.
• Students reflected back on their research.
• Introduction to maps.
• Field trip to Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

Language Arts

• Mini lesson on action and helping verbs.
• Students worked on prewriting and drafting stages of fictional narrative.
• Students made a presentation on their book study ( integration with UOI).
• Introduction to spelling strategies.

Math

• Introduction to coordinates.
• Students continued to practice subtraction with borrowing.
• Introduction to math mountain. 

Other Activities:

• Health check up by 'Health Spring'.
• Uploading of student's work on Seesaw.

Thanks!!

Weekly update: 5th Oct to 9th Oct

Unit of Inquiry

• Students learn about continents and oceans.
• Students in pairs discuss their land explorers and use a Venn diagram to compare explorers.
• Students inquire into the difference between discovery and invention.
• Book study ( integration with language arts): students in their groups do book study on a particular exploration and reflect on it. 
• Students are introduced to timeline and discovery of fire,invention of wheel,invention of money.
• Introduction to maps.

Language Arts

• Students continue with read to self and reading challenge.
• Book study related to exploration in groups.
• Students learn about 'describing words' .
• Students start prewriting and drafting phase of their first fictional narrative.

Math

• Students learn about associative and commutative property of addition.
• Students are introduced to different strategies to do subtraction with borrowing.

Other Activities: 

• Students upload their selected reading pieces on seesaw.
• Lesson by Ms.Kruti Goradia related to 'Health Week'

Students discussing their explorers

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Weekly Update ( 27th Sep to 1st Oct)

Unit of Inquiry

• Unpacking of the central idea by the students and they wrote about their understanding of the same in their notebooks.
• Students watched the movie ' Cast Away' and did a reflection of the movie.
• Guest lecture by Mr.Gaurav ( Junglelore).
• Discussion in the class on 'reasons for exploration'. 

Language Arts

• Students identified the different story elements and made a mind map on 'plot'.
• Students were introduced to 'Fictional Narrative' genre.
• Students did read to self / read to someone and reading challenges during reading time.

Math

• Students continued to learn about line graphs (interpreting and marking)
• Students were introduced to addition word problems and the strategies to solve them.

Students watching a video on 'story plot'

Read to someone

Read to someone

Thanks!!