Week 7 photos

This week we celebrated the finale of our Read-a-Thon with a special treat of milk and cookies while we read to our reading buddies.

In our reading classes this week we created character foldables focusing on the conflict/resolution our characters are dealing with in our story. 

In Math we worked in pairs to solve addition and subtraction word problems.

In music this week we are practicing our recorders.

On Friday we had a wonderful play we attended!

Week 6 Wrap Up

Welcome back! This week we began our second novel The Thing About Georgie. We are exploring new themes and vocabulary and discussing ways we can treat others who are different than we are with respect and kindness. We have done a lot of fun activities in class to help us have perspective on our main character such as comparing our “normal” heights to Georgie’s and even trying something as simple as reaching our own ears! In our journals we are writing about accepting others differences and about the characters we are meeting in our first few chapters. In Math we continued practicing double digit addition with regrouping and introduced double digit subtraction with regrouping. We are also learning our 5 x tables this week. In Social Studies we explored our Scholastic News magazine and learned about the rover exploring Mars. We watched an amazing video on Discovery Streaming about this really cool planet! Then, we designed our own robots and gave them our own creative names inspired by what we learned. We are continuing to work in our handwriting books and using our spelling words in our reading and writing activities

A look ahead...

Next week, we will continue using our novel by exploring themes about friendship and bullying and focusing on the characters as they develop. In Language Arts we will be introducing essay writing and preparing for our first 3 paragraph essay. Our spelling words will be words from our reading in addition to leveled words from our series and math terms. We will continue to use our new cursive skills and add entries in our journals with topics about our reading and feelings about our story. In Math we will be reviewing chapter 2 and 3 and practicing these skills. We will be taking our test on Tuesday. We will also be studying our 9 times tables. In Social Studies we will begin Chapter 3 by exploring natural resources and how we can keep our environment healthy. Thank you all for being so diligent in signing your children’s reading log. I understand that that it is a daily event and can be seen as a burden, however helping our children understand the importance of reading on a daily basis is something that will stay with them for a life time.

Here we are in Art class making beautiful fall leaves

 Our new playground is AMAZING! We love recess!

 In Social Studies we created our very own roving robots!

Practicing math facts on the Smartboard is so fun!

 Here are some of the activities we did for our novel. We measured ourselves, tried to reach our ears, and worked hard in our reading response notebooks making predictions and per-reading observations.

                                   

Here are our reading bulletin boards for our read-a-thon and our first novel project

 

Projects, punch, and pops!

This week we were very excited to wrap up our first novel and watch the movie Because of Winn-Dixie. We were able to compare and contrast the book and the movie, as well as  work on an interview project that helped us learn ten new things about a classmate-just like Opal learned about Winn-Dixie! We celebrated with our very own Dump Punch and lollipops for the Litmus Lozenge in the story. In Math this week we reviewed double digit addition and played a speed game with our 2,3,and 4 times tables. Three winners from each class who completed their facts with in five minutes received a prize. I am hopeful to give everyone a prize when we return from break, so keep up that review! We also continued adding writing entries in our portfolios responding to topics from the novel. Please send in the next novel, The The Thing About Georgie, with your child on October 11th. We will begin prediction and introduction activities as soon as we return.

Today we were thrilled to kick off our Read to Succeed Read-a-Thon with a pep rally. Our first activity was a huge success, as we read books and stories to our EC3 friends. Our  page count was over 600 pages! In third grade we will be trying to reach a goal of 7,000 pages for the month of October. I know we can do it!! I will be tracking the class at school but your child will be bringing home an additional reading log each week to keep a tally of their at home pages. If your child turns in this form initialed by you each week their name will be entered into a drawing to win a free book. In addition, the top reader from each class will receive a 15$ gift card to Barnes and Nobel. And their homework reading can count towards their tally each week-so keep reading!! I will post the reading log on Edline if your child would like to get a head start!

Have a wonderful break!!  


                             Naomi, Noa, Leah ,and Haley show off their excellent character maps!

Here is our yummy treats-Dump Punch and lollipops!!

 Our Lower School getting excited for the Read-a-Thon!!

 A final result of our awesome interview project.

 Our 3A class reading and interacting with our little friends!!