We have actively been reading Dr. Seuss books each day to celebrate Read Across America week. Some students are rediscovering old favorites and discovering new ones. I love Dr. Seuss books, whether they teach a lesson or are just fun rhyming reads.
Morning Journal: Mr. Sid's assignment on being an upstander.
Morning Math: Subtraction with Regrouping, Metric Length Measurement, Word Form to Standard Form, Fractions
Math: We reviewed over customary capacity with "Super G". We took a quiz on capacity and drawing of our "Super G" tool. I introduced metric capacity with liters and milliliters.
1 L=1,000ml; We discussed how easy it is to convert metric measurements because it is a base 10 count.
Instead of doing science I read "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins". The third grade is creating a bulletin board called "The 500 Hats of Third Grade". Each student will create a hat that describes them in some way and they will write five sentences to describe their hat. They will complete this activity tomorrow instead of their morning journal.
March 7th: Field Trip to Polk House
March 22nd: Science Fair
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The Butter Battle Book
This is Read Across America week!! Try to read a little bit with your child each day. Ask them questions about what you have read. There are some great question stems in the reading section of your child's FROG binder. For our first story we read "The Butter Battle Book". This book brought up a lot of discussion about why it was such a big deal that people have such small differences. I am hoping this will help remind them about being an "upstander" and not judging others for their differences!
Morning Journal: I let them work on their writing project for Mr. Sid. He wants them to write a song, poem, story, or play about being an upstander, bullying, friendship, or being truthful. They will get to work on these tomorrow during this time.
Morning Math: Subtraction with Money, Place Value, Addition
Math: Customary Capacity Conversions with Super "G" to the rescue. I teach them how to use the Super "G" tool and also how to use multiplication and division to find the correct conversions. There homework tonight has an example of Super "G".
Imagine It: Ask your child to explain to you different cause and effect relationships. I want them to understand that an effect is the direct result of a cause.
Science: We picked our science fair projects and looked more in depth at the scientific method. They will get their project assignments and groups tomorrow.
March 2: Read Across America Day and Dr. Seuss' Birthday
March 22: Science Fair
Morning Journal: I let them work on their writing project for Mr. Sid. He wants them to write a song, poem, story, or play about being an upstander, bullying, friendship, or being truthful. They will get to work on these tomorrow during this time.
Morning Math: Subtraction with Money, Place Value, Addition
Math: Customary Capacity Conversions with Super "G" to the rescue. I teach them how to use the Super "G" tool and also how to use multiplication and division to find the correct conversions. There homework tonight has an example of Super "G".
Imagine It: Ask your child to explain to you different cause and effect relationships. I want them to understand that an effect is the direct result of a cause.
Science: We picked our science fair projects and looked more in depth at the scientific method. They will get their project assignments and groups tomorrow.
March 2: Read Across America Day and Dr. Seuss' Birthday
March 22: Science Fair
Monday, February 27, 2012
Scientific Method
To begin the science fair projects the students first need to understand the scientific method. They also need to understand the difference between an experiment and a demonstration. Many of our students wanted to create a volcano that erupts or a model of the solar system, both of which are demonstrations. A science experiment takes them through the scientific method, just like a real scientist. All of our science fair projects will deal with plants and soil. We are going to teach these standards through our science fair projects. I know the students are very excited about their projects.
Morning Journal: What did you do over the weekend?
Morning Math: Word Form into Standard Form, Multiplication with arrays, repeated addition, and number of groups times number of things in each group.
Math: We began our study of customary capacity with the use of Super G. Please see tomorrows homework for an example of Super G. You can also have your child explain to you how to create Super G.
Imagine It: We continued reading our story "Earthquake". While we read the story we made connections and visualized some of the authors descriptions.
Science: Scientific Method! Science fair is on March 22nd. I hope to see you there.
Morning Journal: What did you do over the weekend?
Morning Math: Word Form into Standard Form, Multiplication with arrays, repeated addition, and number of groups times number of things in each group.
Math: We began our study of customary capacity with the use of Super G. Please see tomorrows homework for an example of Super G. You can also have your child explain to you how to create Super G.
Imagine It: We continued reading our story "Earthquake". While we read the story we made connections and visualized some of the authors descriptions.
Science: Scientific Method! Science fair is on March 22nd. I hope to see you there.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Debate is On!!!!
Today we had a debate about whether or not the government should still help to fund NASA exploration of new planets with a satellite called Kepler. The debate was awesome and I am going to e-mail all of you the footage from our debate. The students wanted to keep going because they were enjoying themselves so much. We will continue our debate another day. I look forward to hearing all of their view points. Please ask your child the stance they took in today's debate and why they decided to take that stance.
Morning Journal: What would you choose between flying like a bird or swimming like a fish and why? From now on if the students do not finish their morning journal at school, they will have to complete it for homework. I will write in their agenda if they need to finish their morning journal.
Instead of morning math we practiced identifying synonyms and antonyms.
Math: We reviewed over all of the different types of patterns and how to solve these problems. We will have a test on patterns tomorrow.
SS: We took our SS test on all of the different types of communities.
Barnes and Noble night is tonight at 5:00pm! It will be celebrating our new school going green!
Midterms come home tomorrow!
Morning Journal: What would you choose between flying like a bird or swimming like a fish and why? From now on if the students do not finish their morning journal at school, they will have to complete it for homework. I will write in their agenda if they need to finish their morning journal.
Instead of morning math we practiced identifying synonyms and antonyms.
Math: We reviewed over all of the different types of patterns and how to solve these problems. We will have a test on patterns tomorrow.
SS: We took our SS test on all of the different types of communities.
Barnes and Noble night is tonight at 5:00pm! It will be celebrating our new school going green!
Midterms come home tomorrow!
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
We're back!!!
We are back and running in full force. We are in double time for our preparations for the EOGs. We will finish up patterns this week, move into measurement, fractions, elapsed time, and end with probability. The final three weeks before EOGs we will review all of our concepts for the EOGs.
Morning Journal: If I could be president, I would...
Morning Math: We did not do a regular morning math because of the short week. Instead we completed a few pattern problems in our math journal.
Math: We reviewed all of the types of pattern problems. I had the students come up and teach. We discussed all of the different ways to solve pattern problems. (Pictures, arrows, number lines, t-charts.) We will have a test on patterns this Friday.
Imagine It: We are going to focus on the story "Earthquakes" for the rest of this week and next week. We are going to look at all of the different types of natural disasters and how they change a community. Today, we looked at earthquakes and how they can affect the land and a community. In our story, we will look at the major earthquake in San Francisco and cause and effect relationships in our story.
SS: We will have our SS test on different types of communities tomorrow. The three major types are urban, suburban, and rural. I sent home a study guide on Friday.
**Don't forget to study the addition, subtraction, and multiplication flash cards with your child. We take timed tests on these every day 2 and 6. It is a requirement of our school that all students be able to complete 100 facts in five minutes.**
Morning Journal: If I could be president, I would...
Morning Math: We did not do a regular morning math because of the short week. Instead we completed a few pattern problems in our math journal.
Math: We reviewed all of the types of pattern problems. I had the students come up and teach. We discussed all of the different ways to solve pattern problems. (Pictures, arrows, number lines, t-charts.) We will have a test on patterns this Friday.
Imagine It: We are going to focus on the story "Earthquakes" for the rest of this week and next week. We are going to look at all of the different types of natural disasters and how they change a community. Today, we looked at earthquakes and how they can affect the land and a community. In our story, we will look at the major earthquake in San Francisco and cause and effect relationships in our story.
SS: We will have our SS test on different types of communities tomorrow. The three major types are urban, suburban, and rural. I sent home a study guide on Friday.
**Don't forget to study the addition, subtraction, and multiplication flash cards with your child. We take timed tests on these every day 2 and 6. It is a requirement of our school that all students be able to complete 100 facts in five minutes.**
Friday, February 17, 2012
Looong weekend!!!
Please enjoy your long weekend with your child. They are off on Monday and Tuesday due to teacher work days. Monday is also President's Day! Talk with your child about the importance of the office of the president and the upcoming election.
Morning Journal: If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?
Morning Math: We took our morning math test this morning. I will grade them this week and get them back to you on Friday.
Math: We looked at growth patterns again and drawing a t-chart. The students had to work together to solve growth pattern problems in groups to win a competition.
Imagine It: We took our Imagine It test and found facts and opinions in the story.
Today we watched a video of some children performing tricks with jump ropes in honor of "Jump Rope for Heart" week.
Morning Journal: If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?
Morning Math: We took our morning math test this morning. I will grade them this week and get them back to you on Friday.
Math: We looked at growth patterns again and drawing a t-chart. The students had to work together to solve growth pattern problems in groups to win a competition.
Imagine It: We took our Imagine It test and found facts and opinions in the story.
Today we watched a video of some children performing tricks with jump ropes in honor of "Jump Rope for Heart" week.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
THURSDAY!!!
Morning Journal: Would you like to be a paleontologist when you grow up, if yes why and if no why not? I got everything from yes it would be a cool job to no I don't like to be dirty. This was a really interesting journal to read and let me know a lot of misconceptions that students have about dinosaur bones.
Morning Math: patterns, graphing, addition, subtraction, measurement
I went over the problems that will be on the morning math test tomorrow and I had the students circle those problems, so they can study at home tonight.
Math: GROWTH patterns: When you are trying to figure out a growth pattern you must draw a t-chart, because this will help to keep you organized. Sometimes a growth pattern may stay the same all the way down, but other times the pattern will change back and forth. All of our patterns can be addition, subtraction, multiplication, and/or division. Your child needs to still practice their flash cards every day. We continue to take our timed multiplication test each week.
Imagine It: Today we looked at the difference between facts (something you can prove) and opinions (something that you feel). While this may seem like an easy concept to recognize in a story or passage, most students find it difficult because they think just because it is written in the story, it makes it a fact. We looked at many different examples on the pages of our story. I also went over the questions on tomorrow's test to better prepare them
SS: We reviewed over urban, suburban, and rural communities. We will have a test on this unit next Thursday. I will send home a study guide tomorrow.
Morning Math: patterns, graphing, addition, subtraction, measurement
I went over the problems that will be on the morning math test tomorrow and I had the students circle those problems, so they can study at home tonight.
Math: GROWTH patterns: When you are trying to figure out a growth pattern you must draw a t-chart, because this will help to keep you organized. Sometimes a growth pattern may stay the same all the way down, but other times the pattern will change back and forth. All of our patterns can be addition, subtraction, multiplication, and/or division. Your child needs to still practice their flash cards every day. We continue to take our timed multiplication test each week.
Imagine It: Today we looked at the difference between facts (something you can prove) and opinions (something that you feel). While this may seem like an easy concept to recognize in a story or passage, most students find it difficult because they think just because it is written in the story, it makes it a fact. We looked at many different examples on the pages of our story. I also went over the questions on tomorrow's test to better prepare them
SS: We reviewed over urban, suburban, and rural communities. We will have a test on this unit next Thursday. I will send home a study guide tomorrow.
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