Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone!

Room 102 is starting the year off with lots of learning!  We came back on Tuesday and got right back to work.  We wrote New Year's resolutions. What will it mean for 2017?  Ask your child about his/her promises for the new year? 

Catherine and Jaxon work on their lists. 

Caroline writes her resolutions. 

We also started a new book called Donavan's Word Jar. Donavan is a third grade boy, who like his classmates, likes to collects things. But his collections is a little different. He collects words! Yes, words.  

Donavan Allen collects words. 

We will be spending the next few weeks learning about Donavan's collections and starting a word collection of our own. Do you have any words that you like?  Your 3rd grader will be asking you to share. So, be ready! 

Here are some of our classmates discussing the book. 

We have started a CLASS WORD JAR as well as individual word jars as well. 

AREA! 

We have been working on the areas of polygons for a few weeks. We made our own sports complexes. And, more recently, designed our own robots to work on the area of regular and irregular shapes. We have been working in math stations to practice math fluency, meeting in small groups to review concepts, and working individually or with a partner to answer questions. 

Math Journal Question - find the area! 

Using geoboards to make shapes with an area of 4 square units! 

Check our our area robots! 

More AREA-BOTS!