12.22.14

Happy Holidays!

Speech and OT lesson.

 

 We made snowflake ornaments in the science lab.

 We learned how to play rock-paper-scissors!

 We made globes and labeled continence and Christopher Columbus' voyage.

  

 Classroom map. Our next social studies focus is map skills!

 We finished our narratives. 

Students did a great job and wrote very creative stories!

Speech/OT lesson - we made hot chocolate and elves!

 

 

Holiday Party!

  

12.15.14

Our class Holiday party is on Thursday the 18^th at 1:00.

On Friday the 19^th we will have Polar Express day! Students are allowed to wear pajamas that day.

Math: 

We will focus on subtraction for the next week. Some students are doing well with subtraction and have a good amount of background knowledge on how to subtract. If you child can subtract on their own then they will not be expected to use tallies. If your child does not know how to subtract please encourage them to use the strategy that I am teaching in class. I am teaching them to use tallies and counting up from the subtrahend (bottom number) to the minuend (top number). Please let me know if you have any questions. Students will still get multiplication homework as a review. Starting in January we will continue with multiplication x4-x9. Students did great with learning their multiples of 3 using our song. Below are the next couple of songs that students will learn to sing to learn their multiples. Once students learn the songs, encourage your child to practice saying and singing the multiplication songs at home.

x3 – Row, Row, Row Your Boat

x4 – Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

x6 - Wheels on the Bus

x7 - Happy Birthday to You

Social Studies/Science:

We are wrapping up our lessons with Christopher Columbus and map skills. Students will be soon bringing home all of their Columbus work including their globes which identifies Columbus’ voyage.

Writing:

It’s been a process to work on narrative writing but students are getting much better with coming up with ideas for a story! I’ve very proud of the progress that I’ve seen. We have been working on identifying problems and solutions and naming possible problems and solutions from a picture. This is something that you can do with your child at home. Show them a picture and ask them what a possible problem and a possible solution is to what is happening in the picture. This is an abstract activity that well help students explain and reason. Doing this in class has helped students come up with their own story based on a given picture. These are the aspects that we are working to including in our narratives: actions, sounds, dialog, characters, setting, problem/solution, feelings/emotions and the moral of the story.

Over the break I will be sending home a Holiday Break Journal. I hope students are able to write at least 5-6 journal entries over the break and will be able to share it when we get back after 2 weeks off!

12.1.14

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day lunch!
Thank you to all the parents that were able to join us and make it another memorable day.

 

  The food drive was a great success! Our 3rd graders went to each homeroom and collected cans and non-perishable food items. We kept track of how much each class brought in. We placed the cans in arrays in each box so that we could multiply to find out how much was in each box. Great job Mrs. Keith's class for bringing in the most, with a total of 77 food items!

11.17.14

Important Dates:

November 19th - Annual Thanksgiving Day Lunch

We will be decorating our classroom and create a thankful tree!

All parents are invited to join us for lunch. Parent lunches are $3.25.

I encourage all students to dress up for our lunch; 

polo or button-down and slacks/khaki pants.

December 18th - Holiday Party at 1:00

I am looking for a few parent volunteers to help during our holiday party. 

Please let me know if you are interested. 

This week we started our first narrative. Some students are writing about pumpkin carving and some are writing stories about super heroes. Students are going through the writing process and will soon be revising and editing their rough drafts. Looking forward to seeing the final product!

We focused on multiplication word problems 

this week and followed these word problem steps:

1. Change the question into a statement

2. Draw a unit box and representation 

3. Write a number sentence

4. Fill in the sentence with the answer

Students got to write their own word problems and then classmates got to solve them! Everyone did a great job with these and I'm excited about the progress that students made this week. Next week we will learn to skip count x3. We will sing the multiples of 3 to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat!"

Encourage your child to sing it to you a couple times per night. Repetition is the key!

11.10.14

Addison is having a Food Drive!

Please send in non-perishable food items in until November 18th.

As a class we are going to each homeroom and collecting the cans and non-perishable food items for our school food drive! Students are doing a great job asking homerooms for they're food. We put the cans into arrays to count them easily and then added to get the totals for each class.

This week we did multiplication word problems (x2 and x5) and on Friday we started creating our own word problems. Once we have a class set of created word problems, students will get a chance to solve their friends word problems. This upcoming week we will be moving onto multiplying by 10 and then by 3. When we learn the multiples of 3 we will sing them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." Keep practicing multiplication with your child at home with flash cards and using touchpoints and arrays!

In social studies this week we learned about veterans day and the armed forces. 

We wrote thank you cards to soldiers that were sent out on Friday.

In the science lab this week we observed and recorded the differences between clay, loam and sand.

Gobble! Gobble! During our OT/Speech lesson we make fruit turkeys! 

Students did awesome with following directions and asking for what they needed. 

Thank you Mrs. Otsby and Mrs. Jorgenson for such a fun lesson.

11.3.14

Pumpkin carving was so much fun!

We hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe Halloween.