Week 4

To start, I want to share a compliment I have received three times this week from three other teachers who had our class. That was….”your class is amazing! They are so well behaved and kind.” This they truly are. I’m having such a great time with your children - they truly are a wonderful group of students.

You may have heard - we earned our class pet! It is a leopard gecko and he is unnamed as of right now. We will be voting on that soon!

Grade 3 is done with fall NWEA testing. I will be sending you scores soon.

Math: We have been working on fact family fluency this week. We’ve been taking an addition problem and looking at the commutative property (being able to switch the addends and still get the same result) and then looking at the two subtraction sentences we can come up with in that same fact family. This is to build fluency - the speed at which your child can recall their math facts. It is also something that can be done at home. Give them an addition problem and they will come up with the four number sentences in that family! Before we move on to harder math, this is a necessary task to ensure fluency.

Writing is going well - your children are working on small moment stories. Every class we start off with a mentor text or mini lesson. We have many tools to use to create excellent writing pieces. They love writing and hate when I say time is up!

We got new computers this week! We are so excited and thankful for a grant that allowed third grade to get chromebooks.

Today we started reading the book Wonder. The theme of this book is something we will talk about all year and an important life skill…..In a world where you can be anything, be kind. You’ll notice this was on the bulletin board in the hallway to start the year as well. I feel strongly about this statement and can’t wait to read this book with your kiddos!

Treworgy field trip next week! Please pack a cold lunch and layers for cold weather!