The 3rd Grade News March 12, 2012
Here is some important information you should know about:
• We are going to see The Little Mermaid at the RiverPark Center on March 16th
• Be on the lookout for shiny trinkets and trivets your child can bring to school for our Leprechaun traps during the month of March.
RED Reading - The students will work and read their way through Dear Mr. Henshaw. They will have at least two mini lessons to add to the CAFE Menu of skills and strategies! Additionally, they will work with letter writing.
BLUE Reading - The students will work and read their way through Boxcar Children. They will have at least two mini lessons to add to the CAFE Menu of skills and strategies!
MIND Time – We are working on Leprechaun traps using simple machines.
Reading Buddies on Thursday!
Math: We will start a unit on area and perimeter this week. We will also continue to work on two-dimensional shapes.
If you have internet access your child can get on superteacher1.blogspot.com and play educational games such as compass, dreambox or mangahigh. If they play dreambox tell them no visiting the arcade until they have 10 tokens.
Thank you,
Your Third Grade Teachers
Monday, March 12, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
News for the Week
• PACs Now will be here on Monday and Tuesday for another My Pyramid Lesson.
• All A lunch at Friday’s will take place this Wednesday.
• All A and B honor roll will have popcorn and a movie this coming Friday.
• PTO survey can be found in your child’s folder. When it is returned your child will earn a small incentive. Whichever class (Mr. Williams or Mrs. Harrison) brings in the most returned surveys will earn a pizza party.
• Valentine’s Day will be celebrated with a small party. Your child will only need to fill out the who it is from part on their Valentine’s cards. We will send a class list home by the week’s end.
• All A lunch at Friday’s will take place this Wednesday.
• All A and B honor roll will have popcorn and a movie this coming Friday.
• PTO survey can be found in your child’s folder. When it is returned your child will earn a small incentive. Whichever class (Mr. Williams or Mrs. Harrison) brings in the most returned surveys will earn a pizza party.
• Valentine’s Day will be celebrated with a small party. Your child will only need to fill out the who it is from part on their Valentine’s cards. We will send a class list home by the week’s end.
Monday, January 30, 2012
News for the Week
Here is some important information you should know about:
• It's shaping up to be another busy week in 3rd grade!
• Don't forget to stop by the book fair and shop for good fit books with your child! Books are my FAVORITE gift no matter the age!!!
• Speaking of the book fair, please encourage yoru child to take AR tests this week so they can be entered in the hoola hoop contest to WIN FREE BOOKS from the book fair...WAHOO!!!
• If your child has anything with a Hawaiian Theme they may wear it on Wednesday.
• Donuts and Dads...YUMMY...will be Tuesday morning beginning at 7:15!
• PACs Now will be here on Thursday and Friday for another My Pyramid Lesson.
• Thursday will be the 1st-2nd grade music performance at 6:00 pm, and the book fair will be open as well!
This week in learning...
RED Reading - The students will continue working and reading their way through Junie B. Jones. They will have at least two mini lessons with Mr. Jansen to add to the CAFE Menu of skills and strategies! Additionally, they will work with various types of plural nouns this week!
BLUE Reading - The students will continue working and reading their way through Mr. Popper's Penguins. They will have at least two mini lessons with Mr. Jansen to add to the CAFE Menu of skills and strategies! In writing, we will begin working on informational writing. The student will choose and research one of the 17 penguin species to learn more information!
MIND Time - The students will begin creating biography boxes on a famous character of their choosing! This activity should be really fun for the students as they learn to work their way through the process of researching and creating a project!
Reading Buddies - Of course on Friday, we will read with our kindergarten buddies!
Math: We are on week 3 of a 6 week unit on fractions. Six weeks seems like a long time to spend on fractions, but we are going to develop their depth of knowledge about fractions. Other stations will include predicting and weighing objects in grams, building pizzas with certain fractions, reviewing the four operations of math, working with Ipads and working with Dreambox.
If you have internet access your child can get on superteacher1.blogspot.com and play educational games such as compass, dreambox or mangahigh. If they play dreambox tell them no visiting the arcade until they have 10 tokens.
Thank you,
Your Third Grade Teachers
• It's shaping up to be another busy week in 3rd grade!
• Don't forget to stop by the book fair and shop for good fit books with your child! Books are my FAVORITE gift no matter the age!!!
• Speaking of the book fair, please encourage yoru child to take AR tests this week so they can be entered in the hoola hoop contest to WIN FREE BOOKS from the book fair...WAHOO!!!
• If your child has anything with a Hawaiian Theme they may wear it on Wednesday.
• Donuts and Dads...YUMMY...will be Tuesday morning beginning at 7:15!
• PACs Now will be here on Thursday and Friday for another My Pyramid Lesson.
• Thursday will be the 1st-2nd grade music performance at 6:00 pm, and the book fair will be open as well!
This week in learning...
RED Reading - The students will continue working and reading their way through Junie B. Jones. They will have at least two mini lessons with Mr. Jansen to add to the CAFE Menu of skills and strategies! Additionally, they will work with various types of plural nouns this week!
BLUE Reading - The students will continue working and reading their way through Mr. Popper's Penguins. They will have at least two mini lessons with Mr. Jansen to add to the CAFE Menu of skills and strategies! In writing, we will begin working on informational writing. The student will choose and research one of the 17 penguin species to learn more information!
MIND Time - The students will begin creating biography boxes on a famous character of their choosing! This activity should be really fun for the students as they learn to work their way through the process of researching and creating a project!
Reading Buddies - Of course on Friday, we will read with our kindergarten buddies!
Math: We are on week 3 of a 6 week unit on fractions. Six weeks seems like a long time to spend on fractions, but we are going to develop their depth of knowledge about fractions. Other stations will include predicting and weighing objects in grams, building pizzas with certain fractions, reviewing the four operations of math, working with Ipads and working with Dreambox.
If you have internet access your child can get on superteacher1.blogspot.com and play educational games such as compass, dreambox or mangahigh. If they play dreambox tell them no visiting the arcade until they have 10 tokens.
Thank you,
Your Third Grade Teachers
Monday, January 23, 2012
News for the Week
Here is some important information you should know about:
• Book fair starts this Friday. There are going to be loads of great books to choose from. If you can spare a few dollars for your child to buy a book that would be great.
• Homework- remember the only homework we give is the 15 minutes of reading a night. Our goal is for your child to find books that interest them, so that reading because fun and not a chore. Ask your child about the book and why they chose that book to read. Try to steer your child to books that interest them.
Math: We are on week 2 of a 6 week unit on fractions. Six weeks seems like a long time to spend on fractions, but we are going to develop their depth of knowledge about fractions. Other stations will include predicting and weighing objects in grams, building pizzas with certain fractions, reviewing the four operations of math, working with Ipads and working with Dreambox.
RED Reading Group – We are continuing to read Mr. Popper’s Penguins and using CAFÉ strategies to better understand our reading. In writing, students are working on the voice component of the six traits of writing.
BLUE Reading Group - We are continuing to read Junie B. Jones and the Stinky Smelly Bus and using CAFÉ strategies to better understand our reading. Students are using Marie Carbo to increase fluency and comprehension skills.
If you have internet access your child can get on superteacher1.blogspot.com and play educational games such as compass, dreambox or mangahigh. If they play dreambox tell them no visiting the arcade until they have 10 tokens.
Thank you,
Mr. Williams
Mrs. Harrison
• Book fair starts this Friday. There are going to be loads of great books to choose from. If you can spare a few dollars for your child to buy a book that would be great.
• Homework- remember the only homework we give is the 15 minutes of reading a night. Our goal is for your child to find books that interest them, so that reading because fun and not a chore. Ask your child about the book and why they chose that book to read. Try to steer your child to books that interest them.
Math: We are on week 2 of a 6 week unit on fractions. Six weeks seems like a long time to spend on fractions, but we are going to develop their depth of knowledge about fractions. Other stations will include predicting and weighing objects in grams, building pizzas with certain fractions, reviewing the four operations of math, working with Ipads and working with Dreambox.
RED Reading Group – We are continuing to read Mr. Popper’s Penguins and using CAFÉ strategies to better understand our reading. In writing, students are working on the voice component of the six traits of writing.
BLUE Reading Group - We are continuing to read Junie B. Jones and the Stinky Smelly Bus and using CAFÉ strategies to better understand our reading. Students are using Marie Carbo to increase fluency and comprehension skills.
If you have internet access your child can get on superteacher1.blogspot.com and play educational games such as compass, dreambox or mangahigh. If they play dreambox tell them no visiting the arcade until they have 10 tokens.
Thank you,
Mr. Williams
Mrs. Harrison
Thursday, January 12, 2012
2012
Your students came back with a lot of excitement about school. I believe the Christmas break rejuvenated them and they were ready to get back into a normal routine.
Report Cards will go home on Tuesday the 17th.
I hope that your children have been coming home and talking about grams and liters. We are doing a lot of measurement using various scales in our centers.
Please make sure they continue to read their 15 minutes a night.
Report Cards will go home on Tuesday the 17th.
I hope that your children have been coming home and talking about grams and liters. We are doing a lot of measurement using various scales in our centers.
Please make sure they continue to read their 15 minutes a night.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
DreamBox is here
Cravens Elementary School has purchased DreamBox Learning's K-3
Math Program, an online, intelligent adaptive learning(tm) program that
helps all students achieve better, faster math proficiency.
DreamBox is an online program - there's no software to download! All you
need is a high-speed Internet connection and Flash 10 (version 10.0.12 or
newer).
Your child can now play DreamBox at home along with Mangahigh, Compass and IXL. I believe your child will love DreamBox because it is setup to challenge your child, but not frustrate him or her. The adaptive learning program is great for individualized instruction because it meets your child's needs by focusing on his or her own strengths and weaknesses.
Have fun and shoot me an e-mail and tell me how your child is liking it at home. Their individual reports are sent to me, so that I can see how they are progressing.
To start playing DreamBox just click on the link to the left. It will take you to the homepage and from their you click on Williams Homeroom. Your child will then have to type in their username and password.
I hope you agree doing this kind of homework is much better than they way we had to do homework.
Math Program, an online, intelligent adaptive learning(tm) program that
helps all students achieve better, faster math proficiency.
DreamBox is an online program - there's no software to download! All you
need is a high-speed Internet connection and Flash 10 (version 10.0.12 or
newer).
Your child can now play DreamBox at home along with Mangahigh, Compass and IXL. I believe your child will love DreamBox because it is setup to challenge your child, but not frustrate him or her. The adaptive learning program is great for individualized instruction because it meets your child's needs by focusing on his or her own strengths and weaknesses.
Have fun and shoot me an e-mail and tell me how your child is liking it at home. Their individual reports are sent to me, so that I can see how they are progressing.
To start playing DreamBox just click on the link to the left. It will take you to the homepage and from their you click on Williams Homeroom. Your child will then have to type in their username and password.
I hope you agree doing this kind of homework is much better than they way we had to do homework.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Cravens News
Parents,
I have exciting news to tell you! Our new Cravens Website is up and running I am going to have a link that you can click on to view our new site. One of the cool features of the website is that you can watch our morning news. And as always I want to thank you for have the most amazing third grade children!!
I have exciting news to tell you! Our new Cravens Website is up and running I am going to have a link that you can click on to view our new site. One of the cool features of the website is that you can watch our morning news. And as always I want to thank you for have the most amazing third grade children!!
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