It's Been Awhile.......

WOW, it’s been a long time since we’ve written in our blog! We have been busy learning in Room 203!

This week in P.E. we are learning about basketball. We are learning to pass the ball with the palms of our hands facing out. We are also doing stations with basketball, which are great. We are also learning how to shoot the ball in the hoop, which can be hard at times. In Math we are learning about place value. We are using bits and skinny pieces to show different ways to represent a number. We did Math Centers this week, using the laptops, our classroom economy checks, number puzzles, and subtraction flashcards. In Music we are learning our songs for the Veterans Day Assembly. In Social Studies we are continuing to learn about landforms. We found some of the important landforms of our country, like Mount Saint Helens, which is a volcano, the islands of Hawaii, Washington D.C., which is our nation’s capital, the Appalachian and Rocky mountains, The Grand Canyon, and the Mississippi River. We used candy to show where these things are on a map of the USA. Check out our website for pictures! ☺ In Art we are having a Veterans Contest. We are coloring pictures of liberty guards. The winning picture will win a $50 savings bond from the veterans. In Reader’s Workshop this week we have been working on character traits. We read the story I Hate English! and wrote down character traits that describe the main character, Mei Mei. We practiced identifying character traits in our own books. In Writer’s Workshop we have been working on using the timeline strategy to put our events of our story in order. It’s publishing time again, so we are working on developing a seed story & making it our best! We are really working on finding the heart of the story, which is the most important part for the reader, and developing it. We will be having our publishing party next week! This weekend, Speedy will be staying at Mateusz’ house. REMEMBER: NO SCHOOL MONDAY! (Teacher Institute Day). Today, the 4th graders from Washington School are coming back to Kennedy for an ice cream party! The 3rd grade teachers will get to celebrate with their students from last year & congratulate them on a job well done on the ISAT test! ☺