Sunday, December 31, 2017

I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas and a relaxing break. My vacation has been filled with lots of family time. 

We will have a GREAT 2018 in third grade! See you all on Tuesday!


Friday, December 22, 2017

I want to wish all my third grade families a wonderful vacation and

It is always fun to watch how excited the kids get at this time of year! I am blessed to work with such wonderful kids and families!

I am excited to spend the week with my kids and family! We are excited to celebrate Owen's first Christmas!

See you in the New Year!

Monday, December 18, 2017

Third graders have been VERY busy! Last week is a blur! They have been reading and writing up a storm. I love to hear the YES...when it is time to read. 

This week we they are little elves and making some special gifts. We are also practicing our play. 

On Thursday, we will have an intermediate fun day. In the morning we are going to give them some creative challenges and stem activities. In the afternoon we are playing games and making ice cream sundaes!

Thank you in advance for all your help!

I hope you all have wonderful vacation and nice holidays!

I am looking forward to spending time with my family. 

Holly

Monday, December 11, 2017

Update:

We have started our musical practices. We are in need of plain white sheets if anyone would like to donate some that would be GREAT!

Also, with the winter weather finally here if you have extra ski pants, mittens, boots, or coats you don't want please feel free to send them in! We can always use extras!

If your child would like to leave sneakers in their locker they are welcome to do that!

Sunday, December 10, 2017

December 8th

I hope you all had a great weekend! This time of year is so busy, but so much fun! I love watching all the kids and their excitement.

It was great to see so many of you at the Holiday Concert. The kids did an awesome job!

As you know we finished Unit 3 in math and started Unit 4 last week. We are also starting to learn multiplication facts. The kids are making flash cards during class.  Students will be bringing their cards home to practice. It would be great if they could  practice 5 to 10 minutes at night.

Please don't forget about reading logs! They earn 3 gotchas for turning it in and become stronger readers! They may also record their reading homework.

We did some persuasive writing this week! They had to become an elf and convince someone to hire them. This was our first  writing with a graphic organizer, rough copy, editing, and final copy.  I was VERY impressed with how hard they worked. It was a difficult assignment and they showed great perseverance.

Our photos of the week:

In math we created an Array City. The kids loved it and it was a great way to practice arrays, multiplication, and turn around facts.
  Third grade is doing an author study on Patricia Polacco. We read The Giving Quilt  and then created a class quilt. The children had to draw a picture showing a tradition and then they wrote about it. 


 We love Thursdays! Third graders helped kindergarten looked up reindeer facts and complete a reindeer project! I am always amazed at how helpful and kind they are to their buddies





















On Friday, we earned a special activity. Third grade worked hard to turn all the letters of the word magnificent over! They truly are MAGNIFICENT! We just finished reading the first book in the Nanny Piggins series and read Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco. We were very luck to find out both books involved CHOCOLATE! We made a chocolate cake with some added chocolate(chocolate chips, m &m's, and reeses)...Nanny Piggins would have been proud!

The intermediate wing will start practicing for our musical this week. We are excited to perform Alice in Wonderland. Hopefully, we will be ready at the end of January. Keep your eyes open for more information.

You have some pretty thankful and appreciative kids! You should be proud. I know they make my day!




Monday, December 4, 2017

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

There will be NO spelling homework this week. We will be going over "No Excuse Words" in class. We will also be reviewing words from our writing. 

Third graders are working on persuasive writing. We are also working on rough drafts and some editing.

Don't forget donations for the Humane Society! Third Grade is doing an awesome job! Keep the items coming in until the 17th!

I hope to see you all Wednesday at the music concert.

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Sunday, November 19, 2017

November 17

Good Morning, 
I hope you have had a nice weekend! Things in third grade have been very busy. The days and weeks are flying by so quickly!

The kids are really enjoying our Plymouth Colony simulation. They might be a bit more competitive then the Pilgrims, but their enthusiasm is wonderful! They make my job pretty fun!

Here are some pictures of our simulation:

Third graders split into colonies. The space that is marked off helps them to see how small the space was that the Pilgrims had on the Mayflower.




This was a favorite activity. They had to build houses in certain amount of time. They earned houses for their colony for every house completed within the guidelines. The red strips of paper are their tools. They had to be out so that the Native Americans could try to steal them. If any tools are lost they lose a colonist.



 We will finish our simulation on Monday.

Third grade and Kindergarten have become reading buddies! They met on Thursday. The kids completed a Venn Diagram so they could see that even though their age is different they may like some of the same things! I was so proud of third grade. They took on a leadership role and did an AWESOME job! We are looking forward to lots of fun with kindergarten.


















This week we are going to do the first reading of the 3-5 musical. We are pretty excited and I think the kids will be as well.
On Tuesday, the kids are going to do a breakout box with Ms. Spinney...I think they will love it!

There will be NO homework this week! 

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!