October is flying by....

NEWS: 

Our first book order arrived!  Many new books that arrived and were sent home last week and this week. 

 

We finished our 4 weeks of MUSIC instruction with Mrs. Stover and have made the switch to ART with Ms. Babin. Students were excited to get started with art! 

Students in Grade 3 were asked to join STUDENT COUNCIL if they were interested. They were asked to write speeches and then share them with the grade on Wednesday at 1:00 on a Zoom with Mrs. Caulfield. Our three candidates for our classroom are: SJ Nejm, Lyra Nute, and Sarah Tea!  Congratulations to all the students who ran this year. I am proud of you! 

WRITING:

In writing workshop, we are looking at finding the topic sentence and adding interesting details. We are experimenting with different LEADS for our stories. Some of the choices we discussed trying were: ACTION, DIALOGUE, ONOMATOPOEIA, SETTING, QUESTION, and FACT. 

Here are two different LEADS to the same story. 

(QUESTION) Have you ever tried to dive in a pool?  I have, and boy was it scary the first time. 

(SETTING) The pool was a clear, sparkly blue as I stood on the side. I stepped on to the diving board. 

MATH: 

In math we have been making and labeling arrays.  In addition to that we are practicing skip counting by 2, 5, and 10. 

Jordan writes addition and multiplication sentences
to match her sea creatures! 

Harrison skip counts by 2 and finds a pattern! 

We discussed the word MULTIPLES and discussed the multiples of 2. Students noticed that all the multiples of 2 are EVEN. 

We also logged on to Freckle Math to get started on some fact practice and to do an initial assessment of skills. 

Will is working on Freckle Math. 

READING: 

In reading we have been working on different mini lessons. These are just a few we have covered in the past two weeks. 

Good readers stop and ask themselves questions as they read. 

Readers "Click" when their reading makes sense and "Clunk"
when things are confusing. 
If things CLICK, we keep on reading. 
If we CLUNK, we stop and REREAD! 

     Readers are looked at solving for UNKNOWN or TRICKY Words.  We read an article             about SNEEZING and figured out the meaning of words like....

• bacteria  
  
• optic
• 
  nasal
• Gesundheit

       Students used different strategies for decoding or solving         these words. 

Teagan is writing in cursive like a professional! 

Check out these AMAZING candidates in Room 102!  

    This week our ZOOM on Wednesday 10/28 will be HALLOWEEN themed!  

Check Us Out!

 Smile... It's Picture Day! 

We looked so great on Tuesday and Friday
for our school pictures! 

Wow! We are getting so much done in school!  We have learned about our classroom library and how it is organized. We discussed GENRE and what categories books fall in - either fiction or nonfiction. We chose books and shared the genre of our books. Then Cohort B (now known as the Bears) cut up a book order and sorted books by category!  They were GENRE GENIUSES! 

In writing workshop, we filled out our HEARTS and what writing topics were near and dear to our hearts. These included people, places we have visited, and memories we want to share.

 

    

Then, after that, we started to write!  We learned about indenting our first sentence in a paragraph and how to include feelings in our writing. 

Word Work

We have been working on sorting words and listening to the sounds they make. This week are looking at words that make the /oi/ sound using "oi" and "oy". We came up words like annoying, spoil, enjoy, boys, and toys. 

Then we did an activity called "Calling all Words" where we used the numbers that correspond to a phone to figure out how much each /oi/ word was worth. 

MATH.... Guess what? We are starting MULTIPLICATION! 

Yes, we are!  We started on Wednesday with our Zoom lesson on "Things that Come in Groups." Then we did an activity called Circles and Stars. We roll a die to determine our number of groups and again to find our how many in each group. 

We learned about writing a repeated addition sentence and a multiplication equation. 

Repeated addition for the example above is:

   6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 24 

The multiplication equation is 4 X 6 = 24 or four groups of six

ARTIFACT BAGS! 

Thanks to all the students for sharing their artifact bags. Everyone remembered theirs and we shared them during snack. We learned a lot about our classmates by the items they shared.