Mrs. Fox's Third Grade: October 27, 2017

Announcements

You will find your conference confirmation date and time in the Friday folder. Please let me know as soon as possible if we need to reschedule.

Our field trip to the food bank is next Thursday! If you are volunteering, you will find a paper in the Friday folder with directions to the food bank. Every student also received a paper describing the dress code for the food bank. Please have students wear long pants, tennis shoes, and have long hair pulled back. We will be leaving around 11:45 and return around 2:15.

Thank you to everyone who helped with our Fall Party on Friday! Here is the link for the Winter Party. It will be here before we know it!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0e4ca9ad23a1fd0-winter1

Congratulations to Kyler for earning our Paxton Pride award this week!

In the Classroom

In math this week, we finished assessing over unit 2 and began unit 3. We completed activity stations early in the week where students explored liquid volume, measuring area, and fraction circles.

This week, students met with me for teacher revising and began editing their personal narratives. We will begin working on our final copies next week. We also took our personal narrative post test. I will be sharing the results at conferences.

This week in reading, we took the STAR reading assessment and practiced our reading responses. We also spent one of our reading times practicing problem solving skills and cooperation through Makerspace. Students were given the task to build the tallest tower using small plastic cups in 20 minutes. It was great to see students working together, working through problems, and not giving up. The tallest tower was 67 cm tall.

In weather this week, we finished and shared our severe storm projects. Students had the option of presenting the information any way they wanted. We had some Google Slide presentations, posters, a video, and even a puppet show! They did an excellent job teaching each other about severe weather!

We also had a guest speaker on Wednesday! Kenton Gewecke, the meteorologist from KOMU, came to talk to us about what he does, severe storms, and how to be prepared for bad weather. The students were wonderful audience members and asked great questions!