Announcements
You will find two important papers in the Friday folder this week:
-your conference date and time. Please let me know as soon as possible if this will not work and we need to reschedule.
-a list of student names in our classroom for Valentine's day. Please note your third grader may make a box or bag to collect valentine's if they choose. It is not required. If they are bringing cards, please use the list to ensure you have one for everyone. Finally, we will be exchanging on Wednesday, Feb. 14th even though our party is Friday, Feb. 9th.
Weekly Journals were not completed this week.
Please ask your third grader if they need pencils. We seem to be flying through our classroom supply!
In the Classroom
In math this week, we assessed over Unit 5. I will be sharing these tests at our conferences. We also started Unit 6 by discussing a subtraction strategy called trade first and reviewing multiplication facts through a baseball game.
Students were busy revising their expert book this week! They were in charge of self-revising, partner-revising, and finally signing up for teacher revising. Some students started editing their books this week as well. We will begin publishing next week.
In reading this week, we focused on identifying the main idea and supporting details in a non-fiction text. This is in preparation to summarize these texts next week. Students read a non-fiction book about snakes to practice this skill.
In our Geography unit this week, we finished up our map skills study by creating our own maps. Make sure to check them out in the Friday folder! We also discussed regions. Students looked at regions of the United States, regions we could make for Paxton Keeley, and finally regions of our city. We did an activity Friday where they got to travel around "our city" to learn about different resources the regions of our city provide.
Upcoming Events
No School, Teacher Workday-February 5
Valentine's Room Party-February 9
Parent Teacher Conferences-February 15-16
No School, Conferences-February 16
No School, President's Day-February 19
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