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Happy September !

Hello Friends,
 It has been a fun week filled with an exciting walking field trip to the Decatur Book Festival for a presentation by Holly Goldberg Sloan! She will be talking about her book Appleblossom the Possum. 

***If you are planning to walk with us please come to Westchester at 9:30 for our departure at 9:45!! All are welcome to join us! 

Other info:
*Map testing is over for our fall session. 
*  I'm almost finished with data collection so I can share all of this information with you at our parent-teacher conferences. 
* I will be sending a Sign-Up Genius link via email (& I'll post it here) on September 8th. If you don't see a time that is convenient for you, please email me directly and I will do my best to add a slot to accommodate you. :)


THIS WEEK IN 212

Science:  

You may have noticed that the students have been working in collaborative groups to create google slides for their Georgia Habitats jigsaw project! They will be teaching their habitat features to one another and I will post the slides on the blog as well.  I am also hoping to SKYPE with another 3rd grade classroom and share our work on the Georgia Habitats with them. 
***I know the super nice Principal from GLOBE and I am hoping she will allow us to set up a class share***** :)

I have been watching the slide progress from home and I am enjoying the constructive critiques the children are sending to one another. I think they love the 'comment' feature of Google slides! I will use this as a tool frequently this year to promote the implementation of peer feedback and suggestions. 


Reading:
  We are continuing to "Build A Reading Life" by learning about self-assessment, setting new goals, and choosing reading partners. We will start Buddy Reading with Mrs. Wertz's Kindergarten class after the break. We have discussed the characteristics of a good reading partner in the classroom and drafted questions for reading interviews. Tomorrow the children will invite a friend to be their reading partner. Here are some photos of the interview process. 

Math: We are finishing place value, rounding and decomposing numbers. Next week we will start MULTIPLICATION!! :)

Recess: Sand Volcanoes....

                                  It's going to be an amazing year!! :)

Week 4 Complete!

Hello Friends,
  Week 4 has is winding down and it's been a very productive week! We've been busy learning 3rd grade content and practicing our routines in the classroom.

Updates:
* I have posted useful links on the right hand side of the blog for easy access. I'm going to play with making a symbaloo later next week but they are listed for now!

* We practiced for Community Circle last week and will continue this week. The songs we are learning in music are so sweet...you're going to love it!

* Next Friday is the DBF walking field trip to the Square!

This week in :
MATH= Place Value
* We practiced naming numbers to the hundred thousands place, telling the value of the number in that place. (5 in the 10's place has a value of 50..)

Science: Georgia Habitats
* Each group is studying one habitat and making notes on it in order to create a collaborative google slides presentation to use for teaching the rest of the class. (Jigsaw Learning!) The children will learn how to use Google Slides and will be able to create and  edit their project simultaneously! I am going to teach them how to make comments on each others slides as well.

Reading= Building a reading life.
* Students have been learning about how to log and track books they read as well as graph the genres in order to set reading goals for themselves. Today we looked at Biblionasium and discussed ways to search for, share and recommend books to our friends. Your child has a login info sticker in his/her reading log! Ask them to show you the site. We will spend time navigating it tomorrow!

Writing: Personal narratives

* Students are learning how to 'jot' ideas for writing and to write about a small moment in their memory using 'how and why' details. 

The most exciting thing about this week is that I got the latest Wonder story from pre-order and I can't wait to read Charlotte's chapter. I'm going to wait until we are done with the first book so that I can read it for the first time WITH the children! There is something so fun about reading new books with children! 

Have a WONDERFUL weekend! 

Allie the Alligator!

 Hello,
 Just a quick post...your child has been watching Allie the Alligator in class as part of our habitats study. The children asked if I could send the link.      
                                                   CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK!

Thanks for Joining Me Tonight!

I hope tonight's session was informative! If you have any other comments, questions, concerns...please let me know!

Here are the photos from our week!

"The Important Thing collaboration with ART"

Maps and Phonics

Writing our own math word problems

Collaboration in PE

Mrs. Yoo sent this to me...she says it's me! :)


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It Just Got Real Folks....

     It's really really official now, your child is a 3rd grader! Let the learning begin! We are now getting into the swing of the routines and procedures and we've started pre-assessments as well. The children are loving their new found freedom of choice seating and they are acting very responsibly.
 
     If you'd like to add to the choices you can purchase a Backjack floor chair for the classroom. HERE is the link! Thank you to those of you who have already purchased one or sent in a ball chair! (We do not need any more balls at this time.)

      This week we took our math and reading pre-assessments, began exploring bar graphs, and we wrote about our Hopes & Dreams. We also learned a bit about formatting in writing both with pen and paper and Microsoft Word. The students are already using their flash drives to save their work. 

    Up next week we will begin studying various maps of Georgia and the United States, complete our work on graphing by adding pictographs and line plots to our repertoire, and begin writing personal narratives. I will also send the first reading response homework on Wednesday. 

  We've got an upcoming field trip to the Decatur Square on Friday September 4, 2015 at 9:45 a.m.(you should have received a permission form and order form in your child's blue folder). If you are interested in walking with us as a chaperone, please email me and I will take the first 5 parents! The author will begin at 9:45 so we will need to begin walking around 9:15 or so. We will walk back at 11:00. 

Thank you for another great week! Here's what we've been up to. 

ART PUZZLE

SAVING FRED THE GUMMY WORM