This week, we finished up Unit 2 of Math Trailblazers by exploring subtraction facts and testing how quickly we could figure the differences to our subtraction flash cards. In Writer's Workshop, we have been working on beginning our stories with a strong lead, or first sentence. We looked at some texts from our classroom libraries and saw how authors' leads were in different forms: dialogue, action, a question, or a description of the setting. We practiced starting our personal narratives with strong leads this week. We will be publishing one of our favorite seed stories next week. In Reader's Workshop we've been exploring nouns, verbs, and adjectives and making meaningful connections to what we read. In Social Studies, we learned all about maps & about our continent, country, state and city. We all took a quiz on Friday to test our knowledge of our home address & phone number. This Thursday was our FIRST collaboration time with our 'online' buddies. Our classroom will be working with another 3rd grade classroom in Mount Prospect, IL. We will collaborate using technology throughout the year. This experience teaches us that two classrooms, from different buildings and different school districts can come together to collaborate! This year we will 'knock down the walls of our classrooms' to take learning and sharing to a whole new level! Check back often to see what we're up to! On Thursday we had our first Skype video conference call where we met our online buddies. Then, we broke up into 6 groups and used Google Chat to get to know our buddies even more! It was a blast!
Remember: We are going on a field trip to Sonny Acres' Pumpkin Patch on Wednesday! If you have not turned in your permission slip & $6, please turn it in ASAP Also, the Kennedy Carnival is on Thursday night! Remember, you may buy wristbands before the event for $10! Only children need wristbands, not adults! But children MUST be accompanied by an adult!
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
The Beginning of a New Year.....
Parents & Families.....be sure to check out blog to see what we've been learning about in Room 203!
Here is our weekly newsletter (written collectively by the students):
In Social Studies, we are learning about communities. We learned about and compared 3 types of communities: Urban, Suburban, and Rural. We used a Venn Diagram to compare them. This week we read a book called City Mouse Country Mouse and we wrote about if we wanted to live in the city or the country.
In Math we did our first TIMS Lab lesson called Kind of Beans. We learned that the population is a whole group, and a sample is just a small part of the population. We have been practicing our addition facts.
In Reader’s Workshop, we’ve set up comfortable book nooks in our classroom & we read in them everyday. We learned about finding ‘just-right’ books to read during Reader’s Workshop. To see if it’s a just right book, we use the 5-finger test!
In Writer’s Workshop we are writing personal narratives or true stories! We learned some strategies to help us get started writing. We can think about a person who is special to us, or a place that is special to us & write about a small moment we shared with that person or at that place.
In P.E. we are doing fitness testing. It has been very tiring!
Kennedy Singers, our after-school chorus with Mrs. Kesler started this week. Kennedy Singers will meet every Thursday. We are going to have a concert in 5 weeks for our families!
This week we took our MAP tests and today we start going down to the Reading Room!
This weekend, Speedy will be going home with Joshua. Have a great weekend! ☺
Here is our weekly newsletter (written collectively by the students):
In Social Studies, we are learning about communities. We learned about and compared 3 types of communities: Urban, Suburban, and Rural. We used a Venn Diagram to compare them. This week we read a book called City Mouse Country Mouse and we wrote about if we wanted to live in the city or the country.
In Math we did our first TIMS Lab lesson called Kind of Beans. We learned that the population is a whole group, and a sample is just a small part of the population. We have been practicing our addition facts.
In Reader’s Workshop, we’ve set up comfortable book nooks in our classroom & we read in them everyday. We learned about finding ‘just-right’ books to read during Reader’s Workshop. To see if it’s a just right book, we use the 5-finger test!
In Writer’s Workshop we are writing personal narratives or true stories! We learned some strategies to help us get started writing. We can think about a person who is special to us, or a place that is special to us & write about a small moment we shared with that person or at that place.
In P.E. we are doing fitness testing. It has been very tiring!
Kennedy Singers, our after-school chorus with Mrs. Kesler started this week. Kennedy Singers will meet every Thursday. We are going to have a concert in 5 weeks for our families!
This week we took our MAP tests and today we start going down to the Reading Room!
This weekend, Speedy will be going home with Joshua. Have a great weekend! ☺
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