March Madness!

Today was such a quick day! Plus it was the last day of March! Wow, this year will be over before I even know what happened!

Today we spent time learning how to use specific describing words in order to add detail to our writing. To do this, we all put our shoes in the front of the classroom and had to describe the shoes in enough detail so that the classmates could guess the object. Specific descriptions will always make it so that you can identify what object you are talking about! Great job on the descriptions!

We also spent time working on our spelling rules and spelling activities for the week. Many students chose not to work on these during class (which I couldn't quite understand why!) and so they will have both their spelling hard and soft G packet, and their spelling contract as homework. Those things are due tomorrow morning. If you aren't here tomorrow, they will be due Tuesday, first thing when you walk in.

This afternoon we had two things going on at the same time: science and social studies! In science, students were continuing our tour through the human body with the muscular system and were completing a variety of activities related to that bodily system to help them understand the function and how our muscles work. In social studies we were learning about women's suffrage (which is the right to vote, right 3rd graders! :)). The students travelled via the Internet to Scholastic's website to find out when different countries and states allowed women the right to vote. We are going to continue this activity next week as well and create time lines to show our information. It is very exciting! Thank goodness we have the computers in our rooms so we can all be working on different things at the same time!

In other exciting news, we finally made it to our math goal! Every day (or it was every day for a while but has been less often lately) we spend a minute at the beginning of math doing a timed selection of math problems. There are 15 problems that the students are asked to do in one minute. They all started at +1 facts and have progressed as they mastered that section. Today the entire class passed through their +3, 4, 5 facts! Yay! So next week we will have our reward which is a free choice period where students can do activities in the class that they choose to do! Great job third grade! Our next reward day is coming up quickly with everyone passing +8,9,10 to earn a game day. Keep practicing those facts and keep up the great work!

Have a great evening, finish that homework and we will see you all tomorrow - the first day of April!