3rd Grade humanities
This week, learners will complete the final drafts of their animal essays. These informational writing pieces are part of their first interdisciplinary project. Learners will finish typing and revising their essays. Writer’s Workshop mini lessons will focus on elaborating and incorporating craft moves into their writing. On Thursday we will have a publishing party to celebrate the authors finishing their work. Learners will also continue learning about the Ohlone peoples through our Ohlone curriculum, adapted from the East Bay Regional Parks’ Ohlone Curriculum.
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This week, learners will engage in the editing and revising process as they work towards publishing their informational animal essays. As learners type their final drafts in Google Docs, they will utilize a writing workshop checklist to help them push themselves to do their very best writing that is well organized and includes all the required elements and information. In mini lessons this week, learners will explore how to elaborate on details in their writing, use expert words, and add emphasis to specific words or phrases to encourage the reader to read the text with expression.
We will also continue our social studies unit on the Ohlone peoples and their culture. This week, learners will have their first benchmark assessment. These are given once per trimester. Benchmarks allow facilitators to assess what skills and concepts in which learners demonstrate proficiency, and which areas need to be reviewed with small groups or retaught as a whole class. This week, learners will continue working on their animal reports. These informational writing pieces are part of their first interdisciplinary project. Learners will finish writing their essay’s body paragraphs. Writer’s Workshop mini lessons will focus on incorporating transitional phrases, writing a conclusion, self-evaluating using a rubric, and peer editing. Learners will also begin diving into our Ohlone curriculum, adapted from the East Bay Regional Parks’ Ohlone Curriculum.
On Tuesday, learners will go on a field trip to Coyote Hills Regional Park to learn about native plants and animals, and how native peoples in the area adapted to their environment. It will be an exciting day!
Learners will continue onto the next step of their animal research essay: draft writing. Learners will engage in mini lessons on ways to hook the reader and introduce the topic, and grouping similar information together. Learners will utilize their research to begin crafting a draft of their informational essay about their chosen animal. This is the humanities component of their Trimester 1 biomimicry project. Learners will also begin a social studies unit on the Ohlone peoples. This week, learners will explore their own perceptions of native peoples, and how Ohlone peoples identify themselves and describe the Ohlone culture. This week, learners will begin a new unit, informational reading and writing, and start the researching process for their Trimester 1 interdisciplinary project on biomimicry. Learners will utilize Newsela articles to review how informational reading and writing is organized by main idea and supporting details. This will also help learners prepare for reading sources and taking logically organized notes for their interdisciplinary project.
Learners will explore finding reliable resources online and citing their sources. Then, learners will embark on researching their chosen animal for their biomimicry project. As learners research, both online and in books available in the classroom, they will record information they find in the appropriate section of their organizer. Learners will delve into information that highlights where their animal lives, its habitat, type of home, physical description, prey/predators, adaptations, and interaction with humans. Learners will be using this research to write an informational essay on their animal in the following weeks. |
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