April Came and Went So Quickly!

Well April school days are officially behind us and wow, was today a quick end to the week and the month!

This morning we read our story, Poppa's New Pants again to remind ourselves what happened in the story and review our vocabulary words for the week. Then we took a vocabulary and comprehension quiz to see how well we remembered those words. Great job on the quiz, third graders!

Today we also had a quiz over our atlas information that we have been working on lately. This group of third graders is really into maps and mapping. They are fascinated by the world around them and to see how close and how far away everything seems. I love doing maps and geography too, so it makes things entertaining for the both of us. I have always liked learning about the similarities and differences between different cultures and communities around the world. The class is really starting to realize that around the world things are very different from Wolf Point. It is important to me to make sure that students realize that things are different... not better or worse necessarily, just different. We need to recognize our differences and celebrate them, but also not judge those things that make us different but find the common ground that brings us together.

We found out that we also got 2 more projects funded on www.donorschoose.org. Thank you so much to our generous donors and their support for our classroom. Within the next week or so we should be getting glue, pencils, a pencil sharpener, erasers, magnetic letters, phonics flip books, CD players, books, and books on CD! Wow! That is an amazing amount of materials to get for free to our school and our classroom! I can't wait to get everything and let the students try it out! I will post pictures as soon as we get the new materials!

As I told the students today, I will not be here on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday because I am going out of town. They will have a sub but I will be checking in on them to make sure that they are doing their best and working hard, even when I am not there. I have a REALLY fun event planned for Thursday is EVERYONE is doing their best and working hard for the substitute teacher. I really hope we get to have this fun event! Work hard, third graders, and make me proud!

See you Thursday morning!