Week 14

What we are learning this week.....

Language Arts

Reading is Thinking

We will continue learning about biographies and autobiographies.

Writing

We will continue with our expository writing.

Social Studies

We will continue to learn about holidays around the world (Christmas and Hanukkah).

Math/Science

Math

We are going to continue working in multiplication and division tables.  In third grade, we teach the students to look at tables from label to label (tires to cars) and not the numbers themselves down the table.  Some are still wanting to add down the table instead of multiplying or dividing across the table.

Science

This week we will continue to discuss forces: mechanical (push/pull), friction, and gravity.  We are going to continue to discuss on gravity's pull as we discuss simple machines used to do work.  We will also finish discussing friction.

We are still logging and comparing, from both Gilmer and another US state, the current temperature of the air outside, wind speed and direction, and precipitation. We also discuss time zones and how that affects air temperature. We are continuing to track Gilmer's temperature on our thermometer log.

This week we will compare Gilmer's forecast and climate to that of Maine.