March 20th

We had a Science Fair!

Showcasing our fantastic finished Plant Unit projects to our partner grade 3A and then other students came to visit us too!

The students got to play other's games and show/explain how to play to our visitors

March 19th

Parent/Teacher Interviews on Thursday, March 22^nd

This will be an opportunity to unpack the report card with me and go deeper into your child’s progress.  If you have not been able to set up an interview on Thursday, you can call the school and email me to arrange an alternate, mutually agreed upon time.  I am available before and after school on most days of the week (Except Monday 3:00-4:20pm due to my ECA)

A reminder that there will be no classes for students on Thursday, March 22^nd, during Parent/Teacher Interviews. 

You are welcome to bring your child to the interview! I will have Math manipulatives/Art/Fun play activities at the back of the class to keep students occupied during talking and if you want them to be included in the discussion, that is also welcomed!

Today we started a New round of Daily 5 activities:

Word Work -                       Making bright, crazy, silly sight words

Read to Someone-             Practice knowing our 5 W's of story structure (who, what,                                                         where, when, why, how) + writing about favorite parts

Read to Self-                      Choosing 5 words in our book, drawing our favorite part, writing                                               sentences with our words and creating fun decorative word art

Writing-                              Choice of "Jack The Cat" or "Adventures of Super-boy/girl" story                                             book options for creative writing prompts  

During these centers times, I pull individual students for some Guided Reading time/assessments

Guided reading is an instructional approach that involves a teacher. working with a small group of students who demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can all read similar levels of texts.

Tomorrow from 1:30 pm-2:30 pm grade 3B will be hosting our grade 3A students in my classroom. We will be doing a Gallery Walk of our completed Science Projects and then students will have an opportunity to play the games students' built/ Read and ask questions to those whom made booklets. 

Looking forward to some co-operative learning and exchanging of ideas! I will post photo's from this session as well!

I took home our class pet "Fancy Pants" over the weekend and gave his habitat a much needed cleaning. Here are some photo's of his weekend "Spa Treatment"

March 14th

We finished another four full rotations of Daily 5 center activities!

I was very pleased with some of the students stories, and I will have a select few read them to their reading buddy on Friday :D

We have one more Math: Growing/Shrinking/Skip Counting/100's Chart rotation left and then we will be having an assessment on Monday. This will be on all the pattern types that we have explored in this unit and then we will move into Algebra next!

Today we explored in Science these two questions: Why are leaves green? and How to plants drink?

Here are the pictures of our results!

Here are a few happy photo's of 'Fancy Pants" Our class pet enjoying some Cucumber! (His favorite food! He won't touch banana and he did eat the apple, but he doesn't come running like he does for the juicy cucumber)

March 12th

We had a Daily 5 session today:

Students are working on making word searches with our FRY'S sight words, writing out lists and stories with our topic cards, reading to themselves and writing down 4 fun facts from their book of choice, and reading to someone and writing down the setting, characters and favorite part of the story. 

We did another Math Center rotation with our Growing/Shrinking, Skip Counting, 100's chart, patterns!!

As you know we also had another in class session for planning/working on our Science Projects.

I am very pleased with the effort and work I am seeing going into these projects!

March 8th

Midterm reports are coming up soon!

That means that we don't have a lot of in class time to spare on unfinished work. I will be sending home unfinished work as homework for this week and next!

Keep working on those Science projects! So far I only have one student ready to start building their board game. When students are finished writing projects at home, please have them submit it to me, so I can approve them moving onto the next stage!

Family tree's went home with a few students to complete as well!

Woman's Day was a success!

We did a Carousel reading activity. Carousel's are a cooperative learning strategy that involve movement, discussion and reflection. In carousel's, students work in small groups and move from station to station (or in this case book to book), discussing each task (book) as they go! We read about 8 different Influential Woman in History and then students chose ONE to write about in a reflection piece. 

Virtue Of The Month: FORGIVENESS

We have been doing daily meditations in class this week; all with the focus on forgiveness. The benefits of guided meditation are reduces stress, anger, and aggression, as well as improved concentration, memory, quality of sleep, creativity, focus and health of mind and body! 😊😊😊 

Here is our Thursday meditation:

The students then worked on an Acrostic Poem:

Tomorrow will be finishing some Ripped Paper Art 

(again those not finished will be taking them home!)

March 6th

Hello!

Some of you may be wondering about the code in your child's agenda! It's a code for classroom access to EPIC! My class code is PEY-7345

I have sent science projects home for homework, please use the links on my blog to help support your child. 

Post: Feb 26-Part, Feb 28th, March 6th in particular will be helpful

Students need to include information from all of the centers we completed:

1) Chlorophyll  (what is it? Explain)

2) Parts of a plant (writing about these parts, Drawing a picture/labeling parts)

3) The stages of Germination (writing an explanation of the various stages)

4) Photosynthesis (what is it? Watch a video, write an explanation, draw a picture)

5) Vocabulary words (need to be used when writing out information)

6) The inside of a seed (label, write about it)

FINAL PROJECTS ARE TO BE SUBMITTED BY MARCH 14th

Wednesday will be a Library day! Make sure books come back to be exchanged tomorrow!

Art has been hung on the wall

Our vacation stories are on display!

Woman we will be looking at for Thursday

SCIENCE REVIEW

Germination Stages

Vocabulary

March 4th

I have sent out an invite to join Epic an amazing online book resource for students!!

Here is a link to the Science: Plant collection that will come in handy when your child is planning out their final Science projects!

https://www.getepic.com/collection/473720/science-plants 

We will have another Science planning session on Monday!

Our Virtue Of The Moth is: Forgiveness

We will be reading a book from Epic! we will do a class discussion and activity based on this reading

International Woman's Day is coming up this week on March 8th! 

We will be taking time on International Women's Day to think about the extraordinary women in our everyday lives. Helping children of all ages and all genders find inspiration and courage from diverse women role models is key to education. 

Recommended books: 
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Malala's Magic Pencil