Hello Families, We have had another eventful week of learning and exploration. This week, we looked at fractions in different ways, experimented with magnets in our introduction to the Motion and Matter unit, and took a trip to the local branch of the Berkeley Public Library! Fractions can be a very abstract idea. To get […]
Hello Families, We hope that your transition back from the Spring Break has been a smooth one. We jumped right into fractions this week. We talked about the numerator as parts that are taken and the denominator as all the parts that are there. We also talked about how fractions are “fair shares” where each […]
Hello Families, Recapping an eventful few weeks, we celebrated Pi Day, took a field trip to Coyote Hills Regional Park, and started our math unit on measurement and fractions. It is a tradition to celebrate Pi Day in 3rd grade by bringing in pies, measuring pi, and creating pi puns! We had a variety of […]
Hello Families, We celebrated our 100th Day of School, and there were so many celebrations of learning along the way! We shared our combined efforts for the 1,000 Projects, a third grade group came together to write their own song and perform at our monthly assembly, and we had a few birthdays to celebrate! After […]
Dear Families, We hope that you have had a restful and enjoyable break. We wanted to share some moments from Friendship Week, as well as invite you to our 100th Day Celebration on Tuesday, February 28 from 8:30am – 9:00am. During Friendship Week, we encouraged kids to do acts of kindness to many people in […]
Hello Families, We took our first field trip of the year to Zellerbach Hall on UC Berkeley’s campus to see Kodo – Tsuzumi: One Earth Tour. We were met with a slew of unexpected transportation delays, but the chaperones and third graders made it happen! Instead of taking the 51B bus to Zellerbach Hall, we […]
Hello Families, Thank you for supporting your Temescalians as they have gotten into the routine of working through their homework packets and returning completed packets on Fridays. In January, we circled back to looking at 2-digit and 3-digit addition and subtraction, had our seed dispersal design challenge, learned about the important role wetlands play in […]
Hello Families, Homework is here! Some of you have been asking for it and others may possibly be dreading it, and we are here to reassure you that the third grade homework has been designed to be a gradual, positive, and supportive transition for the Temescalians (and you). Each Monday a packet will go home […]
Hello Families, We have had a busy few weeks between the Fall Break and now our Winter Break! We are well on our way of learning about multiplication and the third graders should start practicing to memorize their times tables! We also studied different parts of a plant. Finally, we welcomed families on campus for […]
Hello Families, November was an eventful month. We had special guest artisan, Jesus Sosa visit and show his art of creating alebrijes. We started a thinking about multiplication as repeated addition, “loops and groups”, and skip counting. We also learned more about how the Ohlone people used acorns to make their staple acorn flat bread […]
