Start of the School Year 2017-2018

We just finished Day 2!  

How am I feeling?  

Mrs. Watson! 

We are off to a great start!  This class has been terrific! 

On Day 1 we took care of supplies and getting the "lay of the land". What time is lunch? Where is the bathroom? Do we have homework? When is snack?  Where's my mailbox? 

We read a book called How I Spent My Summer Vacation. In the story, Wallace Bleff tells about his summer in a very imaginative way!  We wrote about our summer vacation... one REAL fact and one IMAGINATIVE event!  

Wallace was kidnapped by cowboys! 

Today we continued on our learning journey!  Students started the morning with response journals. Check out our Tweet!  We learned new things about our classmates. I shared a few things about myself as well. Ask your child to tell you 2 new facts about Mrs. Watson! 

Thursdays are busy with 2 specials!  We enjoyed Spanish with Senora Marinelli!  We also went to the library and had a chance to check out some new books!  

We started Day One of our Reading Workshop today.  We added the first two things to our "Reading is Thinking" chart. 

1. Reading time is for reading ONLY! 
2. Reading time is quiet. 

Tomorrow we will continue with our mini-lessons and independent reading time! 

I read a book today called Charlie's Checklist. Charlie is a young puppy on a farm longing to live in a big city. He makes a list of his criteria or "MUST HAVES" for an owner and he sends it off to the paper. When the applications start rolling in, Charlie learns something about life on the farm. Ask your child about the book!

Charlie longs for big city life! 

This afternoon we played a math game! It was called Knock Out. We played the class versus Mrs. Watson (we each won a round) and then students played with a partner! (See our Tweet!)  After the games ended we talked about number strategies. We also spent some time talking about playing games and winning and losing. As we saw from our class competition, the class won one game and I won one game. It was about LUCK of the roll and not about skill! During the year we will win some and lose some. One of pairs even shook each other's hand at the end!  Great start to our year! 

Talking about SCHOOL...

Remember to ask you child open ended questions about school. 

• "What did your teacher read today?" will get a better answer than "How was your day?"
• What was your special subject today? What did you do/learn?
• Who did you sit with at lunch today?
• I saw you class "Tweet". Tell me about that. 

I hope everyone is enjoying the start to Third Grade!  We have a half day tomorrow!