October 31st-November 4th

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• Just a reminder that this Monday, October 31st is our Fall Festival Day!  The Pumpkin Run is from 11:40-12:00, the costume parade is at 1:40 (students should bring their costumes to school and there will be time for them to change into their costumes before the parade), and the classroom Halloween party is from 2:00-3:00.  I hope you can join us!
• Please remind your child to turn in their monthly reading log.
• This week kicks-off our helping hands campaign!  This week is food week.  Any contributions you can make are greatly appreciated!
• This Friday, the 4th, is Jingle for Jammies.  Wear your favorite jammies to school and bring in any spare change! 
• On Tuesday, November 1st, a permission slip for our first field trip will be coming home with your child.  Be on the lookout for this and send it in as soon as possible!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week, we will finish our second writing unit, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales. Students will have the choice to publish their fairy tale adaptation or their original fairy tale.  We will work on typing these in Google Drive this week!

Reading: This week we will finish our second unit: Character Studies.  We will create strategy groups that focus on the four strands of this unit: character traits, character responses/changes, determining themes, and the parts of a story.

Social Studies:  This week we begin chapter 7: Being an Active Citizen.  We will make sure to talk about the upcoming election as well what makes a good citizen.  There is a school wide "voting" taking place this Monday.  Make sure to talk with your child about the importance of voting!

Math:  This week we will continue Chapter 5: Understanding Division.  We will work on relating subtraction and division, using a number line, and understanding that multiplication is the inverse operation of division.  The test for this chapter will be on Friday, November 11th.

Have a great week! 

Buddy Reading

To celebrate the end of our Character Studies Reading unit, we went outside to buddy read with Miss Tackes' class!  The weather was perfect!

Wacky Hair Day!

We had some pretty wacky hair in our class today!  Check out the pictures below!

Multiplication Strategies

Here is a chart of the multiplication strategies we have been using in class!

 

Leader of the Week Readers

Here are a few pictures of the past couple of "Leaders" reading the books they brought in during their special week!

October 24th-28th

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• Conferences are Monday and Wednesday of this week.  I look forward to seeing you!
• Just a reminder that Monday, October 31st is our Fall Festival Day!  The Pumpkin Run is from 11:40-12:00, the costume parade is at 1:40, and the classroom Halloween party is from 2:00-3:00.  I hope you can join us!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week, we will continue our second writing unit, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales. This week, students will be taking all that we have learned about adapting fairy tales and creating their very own, original fairy tale!  We will focus on using descriptive language as well as revising the magic that is seen in their fairy tale.

Reading: This week we will continue our second unit: Character Studies.  We will focus on comparing and contrasting the characters in our books, their problems, and the lessons they learn.

Science:  This week we will continue our next science unit, chapter 4: Living Things.  We will focus on the life cycle of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.  The test for this chapter will be on Friday.  Be on the lookout for a study guide!

Math:  This week we will finish up Chapter 4: Understanding Multiplication.  Our test is on Tuesday.  Study guides were sent home last week.  On Wednesday we will begin Chapter 5: Understand Division.  

Have a great week! 

October 17th-21st

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• This Wednesday is an early release.
• Spelling tests are this week!
• Please send in the conference confirmation sheet that was sent home with your child last week!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week, we will continue our second writing unit, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales.  Last week we were able to choose any fairy tale that we wanted and we began creating our own adaptations.  This week, we will focus on adding actions to accompany our dialogue as well as collecting ideas in order to create our very own original fairy tales!  

Reading: This week we will continue our second unit: Character Studies.  We will focus on the role that illustrations play in our texts as well as the importance of the turning point in our character's story mountain.

Science:  This week we will continue our next science unit, chapter 4: Living Things.  We will focus on the life cycle of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.

Math:  This week we will continue Chapter 4: Understanding Multiplication.  We are going to focus on using arrays and the Commutative Property of Multiplication in order to understand multiplication.  We will also make tables as a strategy for solving multiplication problems.  

Have a great week! 

Thursday Blogger

Brianna trying to forget everyone around her and writing!

Maddie being proactive and putting her ideas on paper!

Libby trying to plan out her story first!

Anita writing out her adapted fairy tale while thinking!

Marina thinking, thinking, thinking, writing!

October 10th-14th

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• This Friday is a half day.
• The box top competition starts this week!  Please send in any box tops that you can, each box top raises $0.10 for our school!
• If you have not already, please make sure to turn in the rollerskating permission slip that was sent home last week.  If you need a second copy, please let me know!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week, we will continue our second writing unit, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales.  We will focus on acting out the scenes in our adapted fairy tales in order to include every detail and action possible. We will also work on including narration in our fairy tales.

Reading: This week we will continue our second unit: Character Studies.  As we study the characters in our book, we will notice that our stories are often like mountains.  We will follow our characters as they go "up" and "down" the mountain, making predictions along the way.  We will also take a look at how our characters react to the "trouble", or problems, in our books.

Science:  This week we will begin our next science unit, chapter 4: Living Things.  We will focus on the life cycle of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.

Math:  This week we will begin Chapter 4: Understanding Multiplication.  I know the class is extremely excited about starting this chapter!  We will focus on modeling multiplication through equal groups as well as repeated addition.

Have a great week! 

Thursday Blogger

Today we are Reading a Time For Kids magazine it is about The Battle Of The Bears!

Some people think that there is enough Bears so they can stop being protected!

Do they know a population can go down?Maybe if they stop protecting other species may need to be protected?Should they stop protecting?Miss Hoopers class is wondering!

 

October 3rd-7th

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• Please remember to have your child turn in their monthly reading log sometime this week!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  On Monday we will celebrate the end of our narrative unit!  All third grade classes will be going around to each room and reading our friends' narrative pieces.  We will then begin our next writing unit, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales.  The class is extremely excited about this unit!  We will focus on studying classic fairy tales in order to gain inspiration for adapting our own fairy tales!

Reading: This week we will continue our second unit: Character Studies.  As we study the characters in our book, we will notice that our stories are often like mountains.  We will follow our characters as they go "up" and "down" the mountain, making predictions along the way.

Social Studies:  This week we will be finish up Chapter 2: Land Forms and Continents.  Last week we discussed the 7 continents, 5 oceans, 8 Missouri border states, and natural resources.  This week we will discuss how to read a grid map.  We will have our test on Wednesday.  Study guides were sent home on Friday!

Math:  This week we will finish up Chapter 3: Subtraction.  We will focus on subtraction across zeros.  Our test will be this Friday!  Study guides (with an answer key) will be sent home Monday.

Have a great week!