February Fun

What we are learning in school:

Math: We continued working with points and lines. Our class also began learning about shapes. We learned that polygons are closed shapes, plane figures (flat), and have three or more line segments.

Language Arts: Students learned how to compare and contrast when reading. Students practiced reading a passage and answering questions as they compared and contrasted.

Math Facts

Third grade students will need to pass their 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10 multiplication facts in order to go to honor roll this quarter. Students in fourth and fifth grade are still struggling with their multiplication facts and the third grade teachers are hoping that this will help motivate students to memorize their facts in third grade. The fourth grade teachers are requiring their students to know all of their math facts if they wish to go to honor roll. We decided that we will start preparing students for this challenge slowly and introduce memorization of harder facts throughout the rest of the year.

Students should be practicing their math facts every night. Six students have completed the math fact challenge so far! This quarter the 3, 4, and 6 facts are mixed together and not separated. This is to help ensure that students know their math facts fluently.

ISTEP/IREAD

Please make sure your child is getting plenty of rest these next few weeks as we complete the ISTEP and IREAD test. If students are well rested, they will be able to think clearly when answering questions.

If your child missed a day of ISTEP last week, they will do a makeup test this coming week.

Important Dates:

ISTEP – Feb. 29-March 11

March 16 – 3^rd Quarter ends

                        Reading Logs due

                        Math facts must be passed

IREAD – March 14 – 18

March 22 – 3^rd and 4^th grade musical (6:40 for students, 7:00 for guests)

ISTEP - April 18-May 6

Spelling Words for March 7

1. crayon

2. display

3. rainbow

4. complaint

5. bracelet

6. awake

7. label

8. potato

9. write

10. believe

 

Our class had a fact and opinion snowball fight! We wrote down facts and opinions on papers, threw them around the classroom, and then sorted the papers into facts and opinions.

When we were studying bar graphs, the students took a poll of their classmates and created their own bar graphs based on the information they received.

We spent some time learning about immigration this month. Several students from our class practiced a reader's theater about Kirsten, a girl who immigrates from Sweden. We went to the group room so they could share it with us from the stage.

Andrina's mom came to visit our classroom. She shared some Swiss bread and chocolate with us. She also read us a story from Switzerland. We really enjoyed having Andrina in our class. We learned a lot about Switzerland from her.

We shared a reader's theater with our first grade reading buddies.

We started learning about simple machines in science!

Miss Goshert's second graders read books they had written to us.

Our Valentine's Day party was a lot of fun!

Mrs. Hershberger came up with a craft/activity for us to do!

We learned about lines, points, and line segments in math.

Mason shared about his great-great-grandmother who immigrated to America. He had a passport and passenger list from her travels. It was very interesting!