Week #16 in Review!

CLASSROOM NEWS

Happy New Year!!!  I hope everyone has a safe and fun-filled celebration to bring in 2017!  A very special thank you to Mrs. K. & Mrs. M. for organizing the winter celebration! Hot cocoa, popcorn, a "spirit if Christmas" bell, and a movie was perfect.  

Thank all of YOU for the absolutely wonderful treats, cards, gifts, and special notes you gave me for the holidays!  
I am so very grateful for all of you!

To catch everyone up I’m posting photos from before the winter break.  

I’ll see you back at school on Wednesday, January 4^th!

Week #15 in Review!

CLASSROOM NEWS

 

The first trimester report cards were posted last Wednesday.  Please check them out and discuss goals for the next report card with your third grader.  The curriculum and expectations will increase!

Our Holiday celebration is on Thursday, December 22^nd. We are having a very low key movie and hot cocoa afternoon in our PJs.  I’m hoping to end the 2016 year calmly with everything all prepared for when we return in 2017!

READING

The students began working with expository (nonfiction) text features.  All of this is in preparation for a research type reports the students will begin after the break. 

 

WRITING

We’ve been working very hard on paragraph writing.  Having a topic sentence, 3-5 detail sentences, and a concluding sentence are now the expectation for all written responses (constructed) and published writing. 

 

MATH

We are finishing up Unit 3 and plan on giving the test on Wednesday, December 21^st.  A review will go home on Monday, December 19^th. 

 

Homework is given every Tuesday and Thursday.  Each home-link is a review of a concept the students have learned in class.  We encourage parents to help with the home-links as well as ask the students questions.

Don’t forget, each student received a login card in order to access the EDM4 games, home-links, and helpful videos.  This card is stapled into the front cover of the assignment notebook that is inside of the binder.  Please click HERE to access this site. Your child also has access to Moby Max. This is a free resource that your child has access to by using the login I gave in the beginning of the year.  Lastly, I signed the class up for the XTRA math site to help with fact fluency and skill building at home.  Click HERE to get to that site.  ALL login/passwords should be in the front cover of your child’s planner to access easily anytime. 

SCIENCE

The scientists have been observing the crayfish, Bess beetle and isopods (pill bugs)!  We have a lot of visitors in the classroom and the kids love it!  We are also observing our seeds grow and change through their life cycle.  Lastly, the students are learning what ALL living things need in order to survive.  This will all be on their BA when we finish this unit.

 

 

 

MI STUDIES

Unit 2 covers Michigan’s economy!  Key words:

Economy

Distribute

Consume

Produce

Opportunity Cost

Goods

Services

Natural Resource

Capital Resource

Human Resource

Week #13 in Review!

CLASSROOM NEWS

It was a full week of learning last week.  Wednesday we had time with our Kindergarten Learning Buddies and PLAYED! Yes, played! The students were so supportive and positive while role playing, building, creating, and learning.

We also had another big day Friday with B.Y.O.D (Bring Your Own Device) day!  Every Friday will be a B.Y.O.D. day!  Please have everything downloaded and logged in so that your child can easily access reading, writing, spelling, and math apps appropriate for school.  Thanks!

READING

The students are working on finding evidence when they read informational texts.  Our Storyworks Jr. Magazine allows us to highlight and find evidence right in the text!  Boy, do third graders like to highlight!  So, a few sessions were spent on knowing what to highlight as the information pertained to questions I asked.   

WRITING

Our area of focus is writing a complete paragraph using a topic sentence, 3-5 detail sentences, and a concluding sentence. A second area of review was nouns.  The students had a noun hunt!

MATH

We are working Unit 3.  Click HERE for the Family Note!

Homework is given every Tuesday and Thursday.  Each home-link is a review of a concept the students have learned in class.  We encourage parents to help with the home-links as well as ask the students questions.

SCIENCE

The crayfish have arrived and they are HUGE!  This is the largest batch I’ve ever had delivered to my classroom. 

Fun times!  We are also working with seeds and what ALL living things need in order to survive.

MI STUDIES

Unit 2 covers Michigan’s economy!  We read a story titled Pizza for the Queen that does a nice job of showing all of the produce and ingredients needed to make pizza for the consumer

 (the Queen).  

Key words:

Economy

Distribute

Consume

Produce