As always, it's been a busy week! I want to say THANK YOU to the parents who donated their time to log our new classroom books. I know that it was not an easy task! The books have been delivered to our classrooms and the children are super excited to get their hands into the boxes. We will spend some time tomorrow exploring what we got. (I'll try not spend time sniffing the books...I know it's weird..but new books smell so good!)
We will need some volunteers on February 12th at 10 a.m. in the media center. Our 2nd round of GMAS bandwidth testing is scheduled that morning and we asked if it actual 3rd graders needed to test the system or if we could ask parents to sit in. The answer is: Yes, parents can sit in! If you are available, please email me and I will sign you up!
Tomorrow morning at Community Circle the students will be singing a song that they learned in music class. I absolutely LOVE this song.
In math we used the ipads to create shapes on a geo board app and then we wrote shape riddle comics using THIS SITE. The children are learning about polygons and their attributes.
We've been learning how to CLOSE read text in order to gain better comprehension. We've read various biographies on our remaining Historical Figures and we have a new subscription to Scholastic News that has been a wonderful resource as well. CLOSE reading includes reading a particular text 3 times, focusing on a specific task each time. The children really like to text code!
See the chart for an example of this.
We also had some diversity training yesterday. We discussed the terms Disability, Difference, and Differently Able. Your children decided that we all have differences but we are all human and we each deserve to be happy and feel safe and loved.
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