Math Practice

Puzzle Time

Subtraction Poem

Happy Birthday Finn!!!

Weekly Update

September 26th-30th

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

Important Reminders:

• Picture Day is this Wednesday, September 28th! Our picture time is at 11:30 (before lunch and recess-woohoo!) 

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we are publishing our narrative pieces. On Monday of next week, we will celebrate with all of the third grade classes by going around to each room and reading our friends' narrative pieces.

Reading: During reader's workshop we will begin a new reading unit: Character Studies.  We will focus on getting to know the characters in our books and understanding character traits.  As a class, we will use the book Because of Winn Dixie as a mentor text to work together to study characters.

Social Studies:  This week we will be starting Chapter 2: Land Forms and Continents.  We will discuss the 7 continents and 5 oceans!  We will also learn the states that border Missouri.  Our test will be next week Wednesday or Thursday, depending on how well the kiddos do with learning all of this info.  Check planners on Friday for the exact date of testing.

Math:  This week we will begin Chapter 3: Subtraction.  We will focus on estimating differences, and subtraction with regrouping using three and four digit numbers.  The test for this chapter will either be next Thursday or Friday.  Again, check the planners on Friday for the exact date of testing.

Have a great week! 

Leader of the Week - Irie

Peer Conferencing in Writing

Happy Birthday Hana!!!!

Weekly Update

September 19th-23rd

Hello Families!
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 there is no school!
• Picture Day is September 28th!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we will peer edit our narrative piece and work on punctuating dialogue correctly.  We will then begin publishing our pieces!  The students have worked so hard on making their piece the best it can be, I am so proud of them!

Reading: During reader's workshop we will continue building our reading lives by working on ways to "talk back" to the text.  We will finish our first reading unit on Thursday and we will celebrate by watching the movie "Stone Fox".  This is the mentor text that we have been studying throughout the unit.

Social Studies:  We will finish up first social studies unit: neighborhoods and communities.  Last week we discussed the multiple types of neighborhoods, and this week we will discuss how to read a map.  Our test for this chapter will be Thursday the 22nd.  Study guides will be sent home today.

Math:  This week we will continue Chapter 2: Place Value.  We will focus on adding four digit numbers and continue to work on problem-solving skills with word problems.  The test for this chapter will be on Monday the 26th.  Study guides will be sent home on Thursday. 

Spelling:  Our first tests will be this week!  Hamsters and Hedgehogs will test tomorrow, Monkeys and Mice on Wednesday, and Lions on Thursday.  New sorts will come home this week, and the students will have two weeks to work with these words before testing again.
Have a great week! 

Finding the 💗 of Our Stories - Writer's Workshop

The 💗 of the story is the most important part of the story - the message!  We worked with our writing partners to find the 💗's of our stories, and to make sure those places have lots of details and describing words!  We used our graphic organizers to help us elaborate!

Leader of the Week - Drew

Weekly Update

September 12th-16th

Hello Families!
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 day!  Dismissal is 1:40.

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we will continue to revise the narrative piece that we chose to take through the writing process.  We will work specifically on paragraphing and punctuating dialogue.

Reading: During reader's workshop we will continue building our reading lives by understanding that going from a good reader to a great reader takes grit.  We will also work on using textual clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Social Studies:  This week we will begin our first social studies unit.  We will be discussing neighborhoods and communities such as rural, urban, and suburban.

Math:  This week we will begin Chapter 2: Place Value.  We will focus on the addition properties, addition patterns, and strategies to add mentally.

Have a great week! 

Mystery Reader - Dr. Mariscal

Thanks for coming today and reading the book "Cecil's Pride."  The kiddos loved this true story!!!

Happy Birthday MaKayla

Weekly Update

September 6th-9th

Hello Families!

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

Important Reminders:

• Book orders are due Friday, Sept. 9th!  Remember for this month only, if our class spends at least $300 in book club orders the class will be given 10,000 bonus points to use towards FREE books!
• Don't forget your child may bring in a snack and water bottle!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we will choose one entry from our collection of narrative pieces that we will develop into a finished piece.  We will study multiple leads that we can try on our stories as well as storytelling our pieces in order to develop more details!

Reading: During reader's workshop we will continue building our reading lives by making higher-level predictions about our texts.  We will also focus on retelling our texts in order to begin discussions about what we are reading.

Science:  We are going to continue our first science chapter (Chapter 3) and we will focus on the life cycle of plants.  The test for this chapter will be this Friday the 9th.  The study guide was sent home last Friday in order to get an early start on studying!

Math:  This week we will continue Chapter 1: Place Value.  We will work on using the "CUBES" strategy when solving word problems as well as reviewing for our test which will be this Thursday the 9th.  The study guide will be going home with your child on Wednesday!  It is already filled out but please review the questions with your child.  We will be playing a review game on Wednesday that uses the questions from the study guide!

Growth Mindset

I loved introducing the growth mindset to our class last week! We had a great time learning about our brains and the neurons that grow as we learn new things. We talked about ways to change our words to reflect the growth mindset in our classroom. Pics to come soon of our Growth Mindset display!  Be sure to ask your child what they learned about a fixed vs. growth mindset last week! 

News from the Office:

STEM Scouts comes to Concord!   This program is a hands-on, fun, and challenging way for youth to learn about STEM and the different career avenues STEM offers.  With the new STEM Scouts pilot program, we want to invigorate excitement around STEM knowledge in youth. STEM Scouts is a coed program for youth in 3rd – 12th grade and helps them learn the values of Scouting through immersion in STEM activities. This program is designed to offer a program to students who are interested science, technology, engineering, and math and may not be interested in the typical Scouting program.

Through weekly afterschool meetings using four- to six-week thematic modules that cover a variety of disciplines, STEM Scouts is designed to be fast paced, thought provoking, and fun. The coed program provides a great opportunity for collaboration and gives all youth a chance to develop better STEM understanding and skills.

STEM Scouts is designed to be youth led with adult guidance, teaching youth the inner workings of a lab through fun, interactive modules designed for the perspective age groups. STEM Scouts focuses on showcasing STEM professionals and STEM organizations/companies as partners.  If you would like to learn more, please attend an informational meeting with your child on Wednesday, September 14th @ 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria.

Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset

Mystery Reader - Dr. Moehlmann

Dr. Moehlmann visited us today as our first Mystery Reader!  Yippee!  She brought two books for the kids to vote on.  The students picked the book "Ish" for her to read.  Ask your kiddos what the message of this book was?  She surprised the kiddos and read the second book she brought too.  The students loved "The Dot!"  It has a great message too!  Thanks for coming to read to us today!

Buddies

We met our kindergarten buddies today, and did a project to get to know one another!!!!