November 9, 2017

Announcements

Thank you to everyone who attended our Parent Teacher Conference! If you would like to meet again before our February conference, please let me know. 

Friday folder checklists were not completed this week because of conferences. Checklists will resume next week.

Weekly Journals were not completed this week.

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. We will leave Paxton around 11 and return around 1:30.

Here is the link to sign up for our Winter Party on December 21st. We still need a game, craft, and a healthy snack.

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

In the Classroom

We studied subtraction, picture graphs, and multiplication this week in math. Students learned about a subtraction strategy called expand and trade. We also learned about multiplication squares which are facts where the factors are the same. For example, 4 x 4=16 has a square product. Here are pictures of students building multiplication squares with cubes and then recording the matching number model.

We finished our personal narrative unit in writing! Students enjoyed the final step of the publishing process, the celebration! These stories will be shared during conferences. We will begin our next unit, Informational Writing, next week.

In reading this week, students studied how to make predictions in non-fiction texts. We used non-fiction features like titles, photographs, captions, table of contents, and diagrams to make realistic predictions about what we were going to learn.

We also skyped with another class about our Global Read Aloud book. This week, we talked to a 3rd grade class in Omaha, Nebraska. The students loved discussing the book and asking each other questions.

We began our Force unit this week in Science. Students learned about what force is and the six simple machines; inclined plane, wedge, lever, screw, pulley, and wheel and axle.

Upcoming Events

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