It's March!

The expression goes: March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Let's see if that is true for 2020. 










Here are the pictures from our Valentine's Day party! 

Valentine Word Bingo! 

Crafting with Mrs. Leighton

Puzzles and games

Thanks to our parent volunteers! 

How are you doing with your multiplication facts?
By the end of Grade 3 students should be able to fluently multiply and divide up to 100! 

Who doesn't love a little reading time?

WORD STUDY
Students are really looking at SYLLABICATION!
Root/base words... short or long vowel sounds
suffix endings 

Writing Workshop
Students are learning to use graphic organizers to PLAN their writing for nonfiction. We will use these skills to plan our written responses for our MCAS tests as well. 

Nonfiction reading with partners!
Students read nonfiction books and noted what they ALREADY knew about topics and what they LEARNED. 

What do YOU know about the Florida Everglades?

Miss Thurlow introduces a Word Study lesson! 

Puritans- Learning about MAIN IDEAS! 

February 5th- Global Day of Play! 

Mancala? 

Crafty crew

Check us out! 

MATH MADNESS 

Place value games! 

Area! 

Fact practice! 

We finished reading The Seven Wonders of Sassafrass Springs. 

Miss Thurlow started our new read aloud...
A Castle in the Attic

FABLE FUN! 

Students are reading many different fables and discussing character traits, settings, and morals. 

Our essential questions are:

1. What are fables?

2. Why have some fables lasted for over 1,000 years?

3. What do the characters in fables help us learn about ourselves?

Students performed READERS' THEATER based on the fables they read! 

Important Upcoming dates: 

March 10th - report cards go home

March 12th and 17th – ½ days for parent/teacher conferences

March 20th – Ben Franklin presentation

March 24th - MCPE Spelling Bee! 

March 27th - No school: Professional Day for teachers

April 1 and 2 - ELA MCAS 

April 6th – ½ day (professional development)

April 10th No school 

April 13-17th Wheelock Reads Week

April 14th Suzy Kline visits with Grade 3!

April 18 – 25 April vacation

May 4th – Mark Rothstein, Jump Rope performance

May 7 and 8 – Math MCAS

It's 2020!

We're off to a great start in 2020! Students came back after vacation and wrote vacation headlines. Whether is was skiing, sleepovers, seeing cousins, gifts received, or lazy days they were excited to share their vacation stories. 

Students also wrote New Year's Resolution poems. 

We have been reading MANY different poems for our POETRY unit. Students looked at different poetic devices such as alliteration, metaphors, similes, and rhyme and repetition. Students read chorally and looked at rhyme scheme. They chose some of their favorites to include in their own poetry anthology. They have practiced writing lines of poetry as well. 

In MATH we are working on finding the area of regular and irregular shapes. We have decomposed shapes and found the area of smaller regular shapes. We have also looked at the difference between area and perimeter. 



We also used our word study words to find area and perimeter of our words.  

We have been continuing our SCIENCE unit on Motion & Matter and students have enjoyed designing and engineering their own carts. They were challenged to design and build a cart that would travel 100 cm. We have since used the designs to test ramps and starting points to see how it affects distance. 

This week students tried CART TRICKS. 

We finished reading Frindle and started reading Deadliest Animals. Students really like the nonfiction text features like large photographs, deadly definitions, picture glossary, and catchy chapter titles. We made predictions about the DEADLIEST animal and also learned many facts about animals. 



The world's deadliest animal... unlike the misleading cover photo is the mosquito! 


This upcoming week we will look at other nonfiction texts and come up with ideas for writing nonfiction topics of our own.