As for news from the classroom, we are continuing working on geometry skills and vocabulary. In social studies we are finishing up our work on suburbs. After this chapter we will take a break from communities to learn about government and American symbols for a short unit. In English we are tuning up some fine points about mechanics and integrating these skills into our writing. In reading we are reading a realistic historical fiction piece called Leah’s Pony. Take a listen below:

Here is the work for the day:

On Monday I will take a snapshot of my grade book to make progress graphs for parent teacher conferences. These graphs will show your child’s performance over time relative to themselves, and the graphs will show how your child is performing compared to the typically learning third grader. Our district report card will cover how your child had done achieving curricular benchmarks. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Can’t wait to see you all at conferences!

Great work on your play performances today! I was really impressed by how well each of you know your parts. The cooperation and collaboration was also a joy to watch. Wanna video? I’ll add one soon!

Here is the work for the day:

Congratulations to the kids who got hired: Hannah, Nick, Jack, Brianna, Joe, Mike, Marissa, Sam, and Anna. You are actually the first third graders ever to be hired! Either you kids are getting smarter or I’m becoming a great teacher! It’s probably the former.

Great job this week, kids. We will be continuing our last chapter of multiplication next week before we get into some graphing.

Valentine’s Day party pictures will pop up on a site soon! Have a great weekend!

Below are pictures of the students who won today’s little contest:

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On to the fun news. Our Valentine’s Day party begins tomorrow at 2:00. All parents are invited and more than welcome to have fun with us. We will be sharing our valentines, so please make sure that your box and valentines are ready to go. I, personally, cannot wait for the treats!

By the way, my daughter even got into the “Pants on the Ground” thing, too. Thanks Joe and Caden!

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You will notice that there is not a lot of work on our planner below.The reason for this is that we took some of our school’s SMART Goal assessments and mid year language arts assessments. We will continue assessing the mid year material until we are finished. In the afternoon we did science, math, and social studies. We will be taking a test on square numbers and factors of 6, 7,and 8. Head on over here to practice some facts.

Also, here is a movie from our last counseling class with Mrs. Lehman. We were practicing following directions and listening attentively using a fun dance. Enjoy!

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So, I am asking all of you to make a shoebox sized Valentine’s Day mailbox to bring in next Friday, along with a little Valentine card for each of us in the classroom. You can download a class list of first names here. If you have any questions, feel free to email me!

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Here is the work for the day:

As we were walking between buildings yesterday, I heard behind me one of the funniest things I have heard as a teacher. Some of my students were singing the infamous American Idol hit of season 10 “Pants on the Ground”. It was one of those moments where I had to stop and shoot a video of it. Lot’s of fun!

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Here is the work for the day:

Click here to see pictures from Family Reading Night on our elementary school’s web site.

Also, I realized that I had not been publishing the grades for our work with adjectives and adverbs. I also noticed that I had not been publishing our work in multiplication. I apologize for this, did not realize that that information was not coming up for you. So, head on over there and check out those grades!

Notes for our scheduled parent/teacher conferences are coming home today. Parents, be sure to ask your child to hand it to you when they get home. Please email me if you have any concerns about the scheduled times.

Lastly, in math we practiced our multiplication facts by doing some dice rolling games and plotting our results. We had to roll the dice, find the sum of the roll, multiply the sum by a factor (determined on the sheet), and plot the results. As a class we competed 75 sheets. I, then, took the winning result off of each sheet and graphed it with the class in a large group. We discovered that the 1/1 and the 6/6 were pretty rare, while the middle sums/products were the most common results. Good luck in Vegas! Here is the large group class graph we made (click on the graph to see it larger):

Have a great weekend!