Announcements
Thank you to everyone who returned the blue conference form! I will do my best to accommodate your requests. A confirmation date/time will come home in the Friday folder next week. Please note, it is a Paxton Keeley expectation I meet with 100% of families for these conferences.
Thank you so much to the families that donated a gift card for our basket at the Comet Carnival! I look forward to seeing many families there on Friday, October 22.
The Food Drive begins next week! Our class set a goal of bringing in 100 items. Please see the note in the Friday Folder for more information.
On Friday, we had the opportunity to do a Design Challenge in the media center with Mrs. Canepa. Our challenge was to pick up the leaves and pumpkins on the library floor without bending over. We had a variety of materials to use such as cardboard, popsicle sticks, and masking tape. Students had to design their invention, test it out, evaluate, and re-design. I was so impressed with their ingenuity!
In the Classroom
In science, we started our life cycles unit. On Monday, the science department dropped off our incubator and filled it with 12 chick eggs.
We also learned about life cycles of different living things like orangutans, jalapeño plants, and pumpkins.
In math this week, we focused on division. Students are learning how to use their problem solving skills to read an equal groups or equal sharing problem and solve it efficiently. Tally marks continue to be a common strategy for our pictures, but we will begin to move away from them as our numbers increase. We also learned a new game on the Everyday Math app called Division Arrays.
This is a great opportunity to keep working on the multiplication facts we already know, in particular the 2s, 5s, and 10s. We will assess over this unit next week.
In our reading unit this week, students read the myth of King Midas. We used this to practice our skills of inferring, finding text evidence, and comparing/contrasting. We also had guided reading groups this week. Make sure to ask your 3rd grader which fiction book they are reading.
In writing. we used poetry excerpts from "John Henry" and "The Village Blacksmith." We have been practicing our opinion writing skills by deciding which was the more vivid character. Students had to organize their writing into paragraphs and support their reasons with details from the poems.
Upcoming Events
Comet Carnival-October 22
Fall Party-October 27
No School, Teacher Workdays-October 28 and 29
Parent Teacher Conferences-November 8-11
No School, Conferences-November 12
Picture Retake Day-November 23
Thanksgiving Break-November 24-26
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