...at least not this week!
Hi Families,
If you have not had the chance to visit our photo pages in a while, please be sure to do so. I have added several photos from our ongoing art & literature project as well as several from our amazing field trip to the CNN Center. Many thanks to Mrs. Babbit for organizing and providing this field trip, and thank you to our amazing parent drivers and chaperones. It was a wonderful trip, and the children learned a lot! You should be very proud of your children for the beautiful thank you notes they wrote.
These next few weeks are full of preparation for our upcoming events in Lower School. We also have several special happenings. Please be sure to check our class website for regular updates on the right hand side. Also, if you have not done so, please return your blue conference form that came home last week. These conferences are held on Monday, May 11, and are optional. We are not allowed to take teacher requests.
In addition to third grade chapel this week, we have the Spring Arts Festival. The office has asked us to remind students to wear jeans and a t-shirt to school on Thursday. The (very cute) spring festival tees are here, and we have been asked to pass them out the day of the festival. We will have the children change into them at school. Please be sure to thank Amanda Arnold for all of her hard work as the Spring Festival chair, and please do a “do not rain” dance for Thursday! It’s such an amazing day, and so many volunteers have been working so hard. Thank you all so much for your tremendous efforts!
Here’s what’s going on in our subject areas this week:
Reading and Writing Workshop:
We are collecting information for our living museum. Students are taking notes from books and on line, and we are learning about a variety of ways to organize our notes for our presentation.
Social Studies:
We also have tied our living museum project into our social studies class time. The students made time lines of their own lives, and we had a photo center today where they were given a photograph of all of the historical figures they will be presenting. They had to decide what to do with the photos (with no direction or information). This was stressful at first, but after a moment, the children began to sort the people (some in groups of what they did - some by gender) and others put them in order of the times (they thought) the people lived. This week we will put a more formal timeline together of our people in history to create a visual of the time in history we are learning about collectively.
Math:
This week in math we will add the partial products method of multiplication to add to our strategies - a new way to multiply. Many of the students enjoyed learning the lattice method, and this one is fun too! Already several students who started with, ”I don’t get it!” have settled to a nice, “Oh, I see! Cool!” By the end of the week, we hope they will show you the difference in the two methods.
Homework for the week:
Reading: Read and log four nights. Please be sure to add up minutes and pages and that the totals are AT LEAST the minimum required. (If you have questions, please see the homework link on the left.)
Math:
Monday: Homelink 9.11
Tuesday: Homelink 9.12
Wednesday: Word Problem page (both sides) - Due Monday
Social Studies:
Bring your two books for the living museum to school each day this week.
Have a fantastic week!
Love,
Meadow & Anna
Hi Families,
If you have not had the chance to visit our photo pages in a while, please be sure to do so. I have added several photos from our ongoing art & literature project as well as several from our amazing field trip to the CNN Center. Many thanks to Mrs. Babbit for organizing and providing this field trip, and thank you to our amazing parent drivers and chaperones. It was a wonderful trip, and the children learned a lot! You should be very proud of your children for the beautiful thank you notes they wrote.
These next few weeks are full of preparation for our upcoming events in Lower School. We also have several special happenings. Please be sure to check our class website for regular updates on the right hand side. Also, if you have not done so, please return your blue conference form that came home last week. These conferences are held on Monday, May 11, and are optional. We are not allowed to take teacher requests.
In addition to third grade chapel this week, we have the Spring Arts Festival. The office has asked us to remind students to wear jeans and a t-shirt to school on Thursday. The (very cute) spring festival tees are here, and we have been asked to pass them out the day of the festival. We will have the children change into them at school. Please be sure to thank Amanda Arnold for all of her hard work as the Spring Festival chair, and please do a “do not rain” dance for Thursday! It’s such an amazing day, and so many volunteers have been working so hard. Thank you all so much for your tremendous efforts!
Here’s what’s going on in our subject areas this week:
Reading and Writing Workshop:
We are collecting information for our living museum. Students are taking notes from books and on line, and we are learning about a variety of ways to organize our notes for our presentation.
Social Studies:
We also have tied our living museum project into our social studies class time. The students made time lines of their own lives, and we had a photo center today where they were given a photograph of all of the historical figures they will be presenting. They had to decide what to do with the photos (with no direction or information). This was stressful at first, but after a moment, the children began to sort the people (some in groups of what they did - some by gender) and others put them in order of the times (they thought) the people lived. This week we will put a more formal timeline together of our people in history to create a visual of the time in history we are learning about collectively.
Math:
This week in math we will add the partial products method of multiplication to add to our strategies - a new way to multiply. Many of the students enjoyed learning the lattice method, and this one is fun too! Already several students who started with, ”I don’t get it!” have settled to a nice, “Oh, I see! Cool!” By the end of the week, we hope they will show you the difference in the two methods.
Homework for the week:
Reading: Read and log four nights. Please be sure to add up minutes and pages and that the totals are AT LEAST the minimum required. (If you have questions, please see the homework link on the left.)
Math:
Monday: Homelink 9.11
Tuesday: Homelink 9.12
Wednesday: Word Problem page (both sides) - Due Monday
Social Studies:
Bring your two books for the living museum to school each day this week.
Have a fantastic week!
Love,
Meadow & Anna