Listening, Learning and Laughing in Room 202

I hope you enjoyed this sunny yet cold weekend. I would like to congratulate Honor Roll students for 2nd quarter. I am so proud of all of you!
Honor Roll students:
Madison M. Josh L. Xander K. Andrew H. Hannah C.
Aaron C. Kaleb C. Nathan B. Kyle S. Seth V. Ryan W.
I would also like to congratulate Kaleb C. and Josh L. for "Perfect Attendance" for this quarter.
Our Reading Street story is "Around One Cactus." We will work on Cause and Effect as our target comprehension skill. Spelling words focus on consonant patterns -wr, -kn, -gn, -st, -mb. We continue to work on our soil unit in Science and continue with multiplication and division in Math.
Until next week- lets keep "Listening, Learning and Laughing in Room 202!"

Listening, Learning and Laughing in Room 202

Greetings on this gray and rainy Sunday. I was talking to a friend in Florida and she was rubbing it in that is was about 75 degrees and sunny skies. I don't think she should be my friend anymore!!
Our story for the week is "A Symphony of Whales." It is a story about whales that were stranded in Siberia in the 1980s. I've seen commercials for a new movie with Drew Barrymore about a community saving whales. I wonder if it is the same as our story? Spelling will be words with suffixes and we will begin a new unit about soil in Science. I will be introducing 3 strategies for solving double digit multiplication problems. Please continue to work on multiplication facts with your child.
Until next week!

Listening, Learning and Laughing in Room 202

I hope you enjoyed the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I nursed a cold and am lucky for the extra day of rest. Our Reading Street story this week is an expository text "Seeing Stars." We will work on graphic sources, labels, diagrams, captions, just to name a few. With the shorten week, many students were unable to finish their writing assignment,so we continue with the Indian myths/legends. We will be writing a good lead sentence, learning spelling strategies and writing unforgettable endings. Our Unit 6 Math test is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 17. Third grade combines Unit 7 and Unit 9 in Math so lots of multiplication and division will be up and coming!!!
Until next week!!

Listening, Learning and Laughing in Room 202

We made it through our first week back from vacation but most importantly..can we make it through 5 days this week!!! Our Reading Street story this week is called "Pushing Up the Sky." It is a play from an Indian myth.I enjoy the story and I hope the students do ,too. The Comprehension Skill is Literary Elements: Character, Setting, and Plot so for our weekly writing, I will give the students another Indian legend to read and complete a writing assignment on the Literary Elements of their myth. I have myths on why the owl has big eyes, how the crow came to be black and why the possum's tail is bare, just to name a few. I love this stuff!! Polygons will still be the focus in Math and we continue to learn about government in Social Studies.
Until next week!

Happy New Year!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful holiday break. I enjoyed the time with family and friends. The hardest part will be to remember to write 2012!! All Reading Street tests, along with Spelling, are scheduled for Friday Jan.6. This week's Spelling words are all contractions-let's, he'd, you'll, can't, I'd, won't, haven't, hasn't, she'd, they'll, when's, we'd, should've, wasn't, didn't.We begin a unit on Local Government in Social Studies along with angles and polygons in Math.
It's a new year of Listening, Learning and Laughing in Room 202!!
Until next week.