Good afternoon! Wow, a full week of learning and academics. It felt great! Students worked really hard and it was great to get back to a full routine with reading groups and math centers. If you have extra time to volunteer, or simply need hours, math centers are a great way to help out in third grade. Starting at 8:30, you can grab coffee and come support the best students around! See sign up genius attached to this email or simply let me know what day(s) work for you and I’ll plug you in!
Student Treasure Order Form – In your child’s Friday Folder you will find an order form for our class book. Orders can be placed online and the class code is on the small order forms. These are fun keepsakes to have and the students are working card revising their writing to publish! There is an option to sponsor a book for a student. Also, if you find this is a hardship, please let me know. I like to try and get every child a book.
Optional Conference Day – March 18th is an afternoon offered for optional conferences. I will reach out in the Wednesday envelope next week but if you don’t see a request form and you would like to meet with me, please reach out via email.
Book Report Update – Students shined as they presented their reports this week. It was fun to see them select their interests and have fun using their personal gifts. I’ve never had so many choose the written one ;). Students are getting into the grove and know they should have their March book to me by the end of the day on Tuesday, March 3rd (our library day). They are doing a great job choosing a variety of books and at their reading level!
(In case you missed it) Donation? – Third graders are looking to go to a storytelling Education feature at Mount Baker Theater with our 5th grade buddies on April 20th. Each class has been given permission to ask for families to sponsor our trip. Each ticket is 8$ and you can donate a part of the trip or generously donate the tickets for our class. Please let me know if you might be willing to help us. We have a portion covered already by one family.
Academics
Literacy -This week we continued with the skill of point of view/perspective. We read another story of Cinderella and in reading groups students had fun picking out skills we are learning including hyperboles, and lots of adjectives! Grammar this week was comparative and superlative adjectives and in writing students peer editing their pieces, learning proofreading marks, and adding more descriptive language to their paragraphs.
Math -Third graders covered area in all shapes and sizes! Base times height is the formula we learned and repeated over and over. Next week we will transition into perimeter and then put them together! They are really enjoying this! If you are in the halls, come see their fun names on display, labeled with area.
Science -We put all our knowledge about traits, genetics, and offspring into action as we rolled traits, determined dominant and recessive ones, and plotted them on punnett squares. It was hard, but the students were up for a challenge and even persevered through multiple attempts for some. They drew adorable, some scary, and many very unique monsters from the traits they determined. So fun!
Religion -This week we dove into the stations of the cross, along with watching our daily videos. Students each choose a station to create a shadow art depiction. Can’t wait to show you how these turn out!
Art –This week in art class, students learned and practiced how to create emphasis in their artwork by making one part of their composition stand out as the focal point. They explored techniques such as using bright colors, larger shapes, strong contrast, and thoughtful placement to guide the viewer’s eye.
Library -This week we read Built to Last. We talked about friendships and did different activities to get to know each other better. To look at the story or other library activities, check out library page.
PE -This week in PE, students practiced the 8 basic jump rope skills and challenged themselves with an endurance activity. They also learned face-to-face and side-by-side partner jump rope tricks and practiced jumping with a long rope. Great effort and teamwork were on display!
ESPAÑOL, 3rd -In their book “Juguemos a Leer” they practiced words with the consonants R and L: rata, lima, remo, luna. Also they are reading small sentences such as: Alma se ríe, Omar suma siete mas seis, La isla está sola.
Peace walk today <3