January 24, 2014

Important Dates:

January 27 – Teacher planning day

January 28 – Scholastic Orders Due

Friday January 31 – 12:30 IB presentation of plays

January 24, 2014

Dear Families,

Thank you for the wonderful MLK assembly. The students worked hard and were so excited to have you there!

Scholastic Orders: Please bring Scholastic Book orders on Tuesday. I have coupons for a free book for each person who orders $10. I have kept the coupons in the classroom so they don’t get lost! The free book can be worth up to $5.

IB: We are working hard on writing up our myths. If you scroll down on the blog, you can see a link to the actual myths that they are writing. Click on the link to see the writing in action. We are experimenting with using Google documents to collaborate and write together. Students have been learning a lot about how to work together as a team on a big project.

Writing: Around this point in the year, 3^rd graders start being more independent in their writing. We have a mini-lesson at the beginning of each writing time. Then students work for 10 minutes silently, by themselves. For the rest of writing time they can work with a partner, sign up for an adult conference, edit or do many other things. Finally, up to three students get to share their writing at the end of the writing time. Here is a poster of what writing time looks like! 

Math: In calendar we are relating money to fractions. Here is a picture of the calendar. This next week we are working together with Ms. Hunt’s class to do math rotations. Each student will have some time with me and some time with Ms. Hunt as we deepen our understanding of equivalent fractions.

We have finished our unit on geometry. Ask your child to tell you about all of these shapes and show you’re the hand motions that go along with the shapes!

Science: We continue to study the mystery plant and the plant cycle. Everyone is very curious about the plant. Most children now believe that it is a bulb. We are also working on measuring like scientists. The plant has grown to 63 cm, but didn’t grow at all this past week. The flower is starting to open a little bit. Here are some pictures from the process.

 

Have a wonderful day,
Sacha Luria