January 30th-February 3rd

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:

• Spelling tests are this week!
• Tuesday is the 100th day of school! We are celebrating this accomplishment by watching "101 Dalmatians" and the third grade teachers are making pancakes for the students!
• As Valentine's Day is getting closer, just a reminder that any Valentine's cards that students bring in may not contain candy.
• Here is the revised calendar for the 2016-17 school year due to the snow day.

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  We will continue working on our fourth writing unit: Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials. Last week we choose our "seed idea".  This is the piece that we would like to take all the way to publishing!  This week we will work on organizing our speeches and making sure to provide enough evidence to back up our opinion.

Reading: We will continue our fourth reading unit: Research Clubs.  We will focus on the multiple ways to organize the information we collect from reading nonfiction. The multiple forms of note-taking that we will learn about are boxes and bullets, sequential, compare and contrast, and cause and effect.

Math: This week we will begin Chapter 9: Properties and Equations.  We will focus on the Distributive Property as well as multiplication sentences using three factors.

Science: This week we will be starting our next science chapter: The Water Cycle.  This week we will discuss the water cycle process as well as the multiple types of clouds.

Have a great week!

Product Projects

Check out the "commercials" made by our class!  Each group was asked to create their own product.  They had to think about where their product would be sold, the price of their product, and who their consumers would be.  The class did a great job!

"Scented Colorful Body Wear" Part 1


"Scented Colorful Body Wear" Part 2


"Tie Dye Crayons"


"Prank Pencils"


"Bouncy Balls

Thursday Blogger

Rachel is doing seesaw 

Marina is doing her aleks 

Anita is doing salute

Reagan is doing I spy

Kate is doing salute

January 23rd-27th

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, the 25th, is an early release.  Students will be bringing home their Leader Binders.  Please make sure to check out all of the work we have added!
• On Wednesday we will meet with our Flyer Families.  Please have your child wear their flyer family shirt.
• This Friday is Ability Awareness Day.  We will start the day with an assembly and we will listen to multiple presenters throughout the morning.
• Here is the revised calendar for the 2016-17 school year due to the snow day.

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  We will continue working on our fourth writing unit: Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials. We will edit the speeches that we have already written and we will choose the one speech that we would like to take all the way to publishing. 

Reading: This week we will continue our fourth reading unit: Research Clubs.  We will focus on collecting important information and making to sure to think about that information.  We will ask questions about the information we collect in our research clubs.

Math: This week we will be reviewing for our Chapter 8 test.  Our test will be on Tuesday.  Study guides were sent home last week!

Social Studies: We are working on a project that will replace our test for chapter 10. This project will be done at school. The students will be creating their own product and thinking of a way to market and "sell" their product to consumers.  This week we will be presenting our product "commercials" to the class!

Have a great week!

Field Trip

We had a great time at Sheldon Hall today listening to some folk music!  Be sure to ask your child about their day today!

January 17th-20th

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:

• Field Trip TOMORROW Wednesday the 18th! Just a reminder we leave at 9:15 for Sheldon Hall and we will return at 11:30
• Next Wednesday the 25th is an early release.

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  We will continue working on our fourth writing unit: Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials. We will write persuasive pieces focusing on recognizing people, place, and things that are noteworthy.

Reading: This week we will continue our fourth reading unit: Research Clubs.  We will pay close attention to the traits motivations and struggles of our nonfiction subject. 

Math: We will be focusing on multiplying and dividing by 11's and 12's. I will send home the study guide this week for our test next Tuesday the 24th!

Social Studies: We are working on a project that will replace our test for chapter 10. This project will be done at school. The students will be creative their own product and thinking of a way to market and "sell" their product to consumers.

Have a great week!

January 9th-13th

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 remind your child to turn in their December reading log.
• Our class Compliment Chain has reached the ground!  I let the class vote on a celebration and they decided they would like to have lunch in the classroom!  Students will still buy or bring lunch as usual and on Tuesday they will come eat as a class in our room!  They are so excited!  Check out a few pictures below of the class with our compliment chain (there are three different pictures because each student wanted a chance holding the chain :) )

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we will begin our fourth writing unit: Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials. We will start this unit by writing our very first persuasive speech to Dr. Mariscal and Dr. Moehlmann trying to convince them that third grade should have a math-a-thon.  Hopefully we can persuade them!

Reading: This week we will continue our fourth reading unit: Research Clubs.  We will be taking a look at multiple texts on one topic and learning how to use the information from each book when researching a topic.  Students will also be placed in research clubs and given multiple texts on one type of animal in order to apply the strategies we talk about during class.

Social Studies:  This week we will begin chapter 10: Economics.  We will focus on producers, consumers, and supply and demand.  We will also learn about human, capital, and natural resources.

Math: This week we will begin Chapter 8: Apply Multiplication and Division.  We will discuss strategies to multiply and divide by 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11.  

Have a great week!

January 4th-6th

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 remind your child to turn in their December reading log.

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we will reflect on the goals we made for ourselves during our informational writing unit.  We will also begin our fourth writing unit: Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials. We will start by creating writing goals for ourselves during this unit as well!

Reading: This week we will begin our fourth reading unit: Research Clubs.  We will start this unit off with a short pre-assessment that allows me to understand what students already know and don't know about researching in order to help them better throughout this unit!

Math: Since this is a short week, and some students will be at Leap on Wednesday, we will begin our next math unit on Monday. During our math time this week, third grade has decided to begin Genius Hour!

Genius Hour:  Genius Hour is one hour of class-time set aside each week where the kids have a chance to collaborate, work toward a common cause, use their talents and strengths, and get creative about something they are passionate about!   The possibilities are endless and totally driven by the kids.  The goal of genius hour is to mold innovators and creators- students who use inquiry and creativity to think for themselves and problem solve in ways they may not have before.We will take this week to begin generating ideas and coming up with a passion project.  We will take a look at projects that have been done in the past and begin looking at websites that can be used to help us research our topic.  After this week, Genius Hour will take place on Tuesday mornings from 9:00-9:45. Be sure to ask your child about this exciting new addition to our schedule!

Have a great week!