Hello 3rd grade families,
As I'm sure you have noticed, we have been working on time this last week! We reviewed reading an analog clock and your students are now expected to read time to the nearest minute. It might be a good idea for some extra practice to just ask them what time it is (hopefully you have an analog clock in your home, they are all going to digital now!). We also began working on elapsed time. We started this by tying in our knowledge of fractions. We used a whole fraction circle for an hour, a half for 30 minutes, and a quarter for 15. Fractions fit so perfectly for this concept! We then started with our start time and worked out how many hours, half hours, or quarter hours we needed to get to the end time. Eventually we started to be able to do this without the visual representation of the fraction pieces. We will be continuing elapsed time this week.
