Vivian Gabrielli

Second and Third Grade Reading

 Students working with Mrs. Gabrielli and Mrs. Jones will be receiving additional reading instruction in addition to the reading work done with their regular classroom teacher.  We will sometimes assign homework but this will not be an every day occurrence.  We encourage parents to read with their child every night.

5th Grade Reading

Fifth graders have been working on interpreting figurative language, including idioms,simile, metaphor, and hyperbole.  Students are now reading a story from "Folktales Around the World" and are mapping the story's characters, conflict, main events, and resolution of the conflict.  We will be moving on to nonfiction and reading for information by using text conventions (font, headings, graphs, diagrams,glossary, table of contents).

Third Grade Reading

Third graders have been reading informational text and learning how to use new vocabulary to gain comprehension.  We recently started working on sequence of events and clue words to help understanding of event sequence in different kinds of passages.

Multiplication Facts!!

Please work on those multiplication facts at home!  Students must have quick recall of the facts for the math they will be doing the rest of the year.  Thanks for your help at home!

Third and Fifth Grade Reading

Mrs. Jones and I started the school year reviewing what a good reader does while reading.  We practiced making predictions, writing questions or jotting a note about unknown vocabulary during reading, visualizing what they're reading, and making connections from the text to self or the world around them.

Most recently we have been working on reading for details and information.  Students have used highlighters and highlighter tape to mark important sections of the text while reading.  We have also shown students how to go back into the text and find answers to questions based on key words/phrases in the questions on the text. 

Third grade students have recently been doing more concentrated work on making predictions before and during reading.

Fifth grade students will begin a new vocabulary unit this week.

Third Grade Math so far...

Mrs. Jones and I have been working on the Numeration unit with our students.  Students have learned to consider numbers in other ways than just the standard numeral.  Students have learned how to expand the number for each digit's value and to read number words up to the ten thousands place.  Here are some examples of what your student has been learning...

24,568 should be read as twenty-four thousand, five hundred sixty-eight.  If you expand each digit's value it would be 20,000 + 4,000 + 500 + 60 + 8.  If one digit is underlined the student should know that digit's place and it's value.  For example,   58, 105 shows the 5 is in the ten thousands place and is worth 50,000.

We have reviewed addition and subtraction of 2-digit and 3-digit numbers.  We will continue to work on 3-digit subtraction with regrouping.  We have also been working on using these skills to solve word problems and using the language within a word problem to determine which operation to use.

We recently started working on rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and nearest 100.  Students are working on using their rounding skills to estimate addition and subtraction problems.  We will work on applying estimation skills to word problems this week.