No school tomorrow (Tuesday), either virtual or in-person.

Use today to catch up

Today is virtual catch-up day. If there's something on Seesaw that your third grader has not completed, today's the day to make that happen.

Also, we will celebrate the 100th Day and Valentine's Day on Friday.

New books!

 

These books were accidentally sent to my house.  So we'll have new books when you return.

A note from Mrs. Christian...

I hope you found today’s assignments enjoyable. I chose a couple that gave your child options.  Since it should have been our Valentine’s party day, I tried to keep it fun, but still educational.

Stay warm.

Another digital day coming up tomorrow

I hope you were able to do the online work on Seesaw.  I only assigned three items.  I have either graded all that was sent to me, or returned it to be corrected.

As you know by now, we will have another digital learning day tomorrow.  So I will assign three more assignments.  They will not show up until tomorrow.  

Stay warm. And let your child know we will have a Valentine party when we return next week!

Students learn practical uses for math principles

I hope everyone is staying safe and warm.  As you know by now, we sent home devices just in case school is called tomorrow.  If it is canceled, please get on Seesaw at some point during the day.  Doing this will keep us from making up a snow day.

We started with math practice that contained several different skills.  We also made our own bar graphs. We made a horizontal one and a vertical one.  We used the same information so that they could see only the format changed, not the data.  We added these to our math notebooks. We also tried some 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication.  Again, we went over strategies to find the answer.  In one of the strategies, they saw how knowing the expanded form of a number could come in handy.  I know they sometimes think that they will never use some of the math they learn.  I love it when they realize there really is a reason!

We read our story chorally.  Then we read the reader's theater that a former student teacher and I wrote based on the book.  They enjoyed it.  I think we may have some budding actors/actresses. 

We also made penguin books. We discussed how we could arrange our informational pages so that our books would be the same.  They had wonderful ideas.  I figured the first suggestion would be alphabetical, but they came up with other great ideas.  They said we could put them in order by height, weight, and other ways.  I love it when they are thinking.  We did go with alphabetical  order because it would be easier when looking for a specific penguin.  

I look forward to seeing you at conferences.

Third graders start new book, work with prepositions

We had a great day, even with the freezing cold weather!

We started with our last multiplication puzzle,

We read our Cranberry Valentine book today.  Of course, it had some of the same characters.  It also introduced some new ones.  

We worked with prepositions today.  We compared them to bridges, as they connect two parts of a sentence.  Then we read some sentences and left out the prepositions to see how the sentence would sound without them. We also wrote a book of our own, and put the prepositions in bold print.

We developed a special spelling list for this week.  We will be taking the test on Thursday since there is no school on Friday.  We only have 8 words.  The students came up with the words themselves, then I picked 8 of them. Our list includes: valentine, chocolate, candy, hearts, February, Cupid, friends, love

In math we revisited and practiced subtracting across a zero. We also did a multiplication practice page.  

We started a new read aloud today!

Stay warm!