What a rainy, messy, funky week! We're winding down some learned concepts and will begin new ones next week! Be safe this weekend and stay dry. :)
As of Friday, 10-19:
We've reached another 300 Safe, Respectful, and Responsible Sticks! We've earned a Stuffed Animal Friend Day :) Monday, 10-22, the students can...bring a stuffed animal that is backpack sized to class to share our learning with :) Can't wait to meet some fluffy friends!
As of Friday, 10-19:
We've reached another 300 Safe, Respectful, and Responsible Sticks! We've earned a Stuffed Animal Friend Day :) Monday, 10-22, the students can...bring a stuffed animal that is backpack sized to class to share our learning with :) Can't wait to meet some fluffy friends!
Things to look forward to:
Oct. 22-26 is Red Ribbon Week. I sent home a form sharing the following:
Monday, October 22nd - Our School Chooses to be Drug Free! Wear your FCE spirit shirt.
Tuesday, October 23rd - Follow Your Dreams and Be Drug Free! Wear your pajamas.
Wednesday, October 24th - Put a Cap on Drugs! Wear your favorite baseball cap.
Thursday, October 25th - Rally in Red Against Drugs! Wear anything and everything red.
Friday, October 26th - Join the Drug Free Army! Wear camo.
I encourage students to join in our featured dress code to participate in the fun!
Summary of the past couple weeks:
Math - Reintroducing multiplication. We've learned we can solve multiplication problems using arrays, equal groups, strip diagrams, repeated addition, skip counting, number lines, multiplication number sentences and area models. WHOA! I've added hopefully helpful charts and links to the Math page.
We've made flash cards for 5 and 10 facts. I strongly encourage you and your student to practice those for about 5 minutes at least every day. As we add more facts, they will want to be familiar with these easier ones.
Reading & Writing - Poems, poems and more poems :D We've learned that poetry expresses feelings and emotions as well as paints images in our minds. Poets write poems to entertain and evoke reader responses. Poems often have structural elements such as lines and stanzas, rhyme, and rhythm, but also could take any shape the poet wants. We also spent time exploring sensory and figurative language such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, alliteration,and personification. We wrote some original poems too including haikus. Next week we will begin investigating nonfiction texts. :)
Social Studies - We've really honed in on specific ways we can be good citizens and why we have rules and laws. We've introduced the branches of government and will continue to further understand these branches and why they're in plan. In addition to our poetry study, we discovered amazing facts about Costa Rica and looked at their government system, symbols, environment and local pastimes. By December 6th, we will write poems about Costa Rica and display them for our 3rd Grade Literacy Night. :)
Science - We finished our Unit about Forms of Energy. We experimented with thermal, light, sound, and mechanical energy. Here is a video some of the students wanted to revisit about Energy featuring Bill Nye the Science Guy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qmSzMwTkpk&t=440s . Encourage your student to identify types of energy they see and use every day at home. They really take pride in identifying different forms of energy around them. Next up, we explore levers and gravity!
