March is marching by...

Mrs. Stover told me today that she loves my class! That was a very nice compliment. And, I agree, this is a very nice group. 

This is our second week back from vacation in February. Here are some things that have been going on in Room 102. 

We celebrated Read Across America last week with lots of fun events. Our DEFINITION DAY was fun. Our class had some AMAZING words! 
Check out some of the hats we had...

scrumptious X2

G.O.A.T. = Tom Brady!

bearish and cheerful

mythical and calendar

blizzard and French fry

witchery and imagination

fugue and expensive

chlorophyll and ancient majestic

bookworm and migrate

hemisphere and currency

One vocabulary-tastic class! 

They were all so clever! 

We also had CRAZY HAT and SOCKS day to celebrate Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss') actual birthday day. 

Here are some of the hats from our triad! 

We also read a book by Dr. Seuss that was NEW to me. It was called I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew. Our task was to decorate our classroom door for a school wide contest based upon our book!   FYI: We won the prize for MOST COLORFUL! 

Back from vacation we started reading a book called Uncle Max's Secret. We started off by using our schema and making predictions about the story. We then read a few pages and STOPPED. We discussed how our thinking that changed and how that might change our predictions. Good readers STOP frequently and think about what they have read.  

Andrew and Caroline write about their thinking! 

This week we read a book called Cactus Hotel. It is about the life of a saguaro cactus. Students were amazed with the slow growth of these giant plants. We also learned why they are "hotels" for many other living creatures. Tomorrow we will take the facts we gathered and turn the in to the CACTI FACTI!  Be sure to check our twitter for pics! 

MATH 

We have been working on addition and subtraction of 3 digit numbers using a variety of strategies. Our mental math number talks have been great in helping us solve larger problems. We have been rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 to estimate sums and differences. 

We also did a lesson recently on ACCURACY!

We reviewed the fact that sometimes problems ask more than ONE question or ask you to EXPLAIN your answer. Many times, students are getting papers back to correct because they didn't answer the question that was asked. Careful work leads to fewer corrections!