November 3, 2017

Announcements

Your conference date and time is on the Friday folder checklist sheet. Please let me know as soon as possible if you need to reschedule. For conferences next week, please try to be on time. I will also try to stick to my schedule. I know that things come up, but it may mean we have a shorter conference so it does not affect another conference. Thank you for being understanding!

Our next field trip is right around the corner! Every third grader in Columbia Public Schools will attend the symphony at the Missouri Theater on November 14. Students are learning about the parts of the orchestra and proper etiquette during music class. Parent volunteers are not needed for this field trip.

Students did a wonderful job on their field trip Thursday to the Central Missouri Food Bank! I was impressed with how well teams worked together to bag cereal. The two third grade classes there filled a pallet of boxes!

There will be no Friday folder checklist next week due to conferences. The checklist will resume November 17th.

In the Classroom

We focused on addition and subtraction strategies this week in math. The strategies for addition were partial sums and column addition. We also started discussing the counting up strategy for subtraction. We will continue these discussions next week. 

Students started their final copies in writing this week. Hopefully we will be finished in time to share the pieces at conferences. We will then begin our next writing unit covering non-fiction. 

For Global Read Aloud this week, we skyped with a 3rd grade class from British Columbia! We talked mainly about our book and shared our favorite parts so far. We also had time to ask each other questions about school, weather, and sports. The students and I enjoyed connecting with a class so far away!

In science this week, we finished our Weather unit. Students learned about the 3 components of a weather forecast and we used Plickers to review everything we had learned. We will begin our next science unit next week which will be Force. 

Upcoming Events

Dental Varnish-November 7

Parent Teacher Conferences-November 9-10

No School-November 10

Toy Drive begins-November 13

Field Trip to Symphony-November 14

Backwards Day-November 21

Thanksgiving Break-November 22-24