Well today was our last Wednesday of the year. I cannot believe we are at this point in the year already!
Today was another fun day in third grade with a lot of art projects all around. We did some Mexican metal tooling and decorated them with bright colors. Colors really pop when you are coloring on tin foil! I can't wait to see how they turn out when we're done!
Today the kids are coming home with a TON of corrected work and things from the class. We had our final class store today and everyone was really excited to buy up everything! Tomorrow we will have a lot more to send home as well.
Today we had our Popsicle treat for the class reading another hundred books this year. Great job! We also had our good behavior extra recess this afternoon. Once again, third grade had no write-ups so everyone got to enjoy the beautiful weather! I am so proud of you all for such a great job!
Tomorrow is the last full day of the school year so sleep well and make it a good day! See you tomorrow!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
One Down, Three To Go!
Well another day has passed us by and things were much brighter here than they were yesterday (inside at least. That weather outside is still nasty!). Everyone was in good spirits coming in today which was a pleasant change from yesterday's Grouch Festival! :)
Today we continued our journey through our Little House on the Prairie book and we are SO close to being done! I can't wait to see how things end for Laura and her family.
We also learned about rain sticks and are in the process of making our own to take home! How cool! Not that we want the extra rain but these will be cool either way!
Our class keeps getting emptier and emptier and we clear out the old things we have used all year, take our projects home, and get ready for summer vacation. The classroom looks so empty!
Tomorrow (if we keep up the good work) we will have our reward for making it to our 100 book goal again. That means we have read over 200 books this year in our class! Awesome work, third graders! Keep that reading high over the summer and you will all make amazing fourth graders!
Today we continued our journey through our Little House on the Prairie book and we are SO close to being done! I can't wait to see how things end for Laura and her family.
We also learned about rain sticks and are in the process of making our own to take home! How cool! Not that we want the extra rain but these will be cool either way!
Our class keeps getting emptier and emptier and we clear out the old things we have used all year, take our projects home, and get ready for summer vacation. The classroom looks so empty!
Tomorrow (if we keep up the good work) we will have our reward for making it to our 100 book goal again. That means we have read over 200 books this year in our class! Awesome work, third graders! Keep that reading high over the summer and you will all make amazing fourth graders!
Monday, May 24, 2010
Only Four More Days
Oh my goodness we are down to the last four days of school! Where has the time gone? This has been such a fast year!
This week your students will be bringing home a lot of projects and things from school as things wind down here. Today students had notebooks, art projects, and name tags to bring home. More will be coming home soon!
Today was a very rough day for behavior. I was honestly pretty disappointed with the group because I really want to end our year together on a positive note, not one where we are really frustrated. Today had our normal morning routine but was more relaxed for the afternoon and that send everyone into wild behavior evidently. I am more than happy to teach the regular routine all the way up until the end of school if that will help but the students want to try again tomorrow morning to show me they will handle the art projects and fun activities better.
Today my parents also sent us a goody package as a congratulations for making it through my first year of teaching and the 2009-2010 school year together. Everyone in the class got a chocolate covered marshmallow and a chocolate dipped pretzel. Yum! We really enjoyed that! Thanks Mom and Dad for the great treat! We really liked them!
No homework tomorrow and students will be getting their final grades tomorrow for what will be on their report cards that will come home Friday. Keep an eye out for that. Get plenty of rest and see you tomorrow!
This week your students will be bringing home a lot of projects and things from school as things wind down here. Today students had notebooks, art projects, and name tags to bring home. More will be coming home soon!
Today was a very rough day for behavior. I was honestly pretty disappointed with the group because I really want to end our year together on a positive note, not one where we are really frustrated. Today had our normal morning routine but was more relaxed for the afternoon and that send everyone into wild behavior evidently. I am more than happy to teach the regular routine all the way up until the end of school if that will help but the students want to try again tomorrow morning to show me they will handle the art projects and fun activities better.
Today my parents also sent us a goody package as a congratulations for making it through my first year of teaching and the 2009-2010 school year together. Everyone in the class got a chocolate covered marshmallow and a chocolate dipped pretzel. Yum! We really enjoyed that! Thanks Mom and Dad for the great treat! We really liked them!
No homework tomorrow and students will be getting their final grades tomorrow for what will be on their report cards that will come home Friday. Keep an eye out for that. Get plenty of rest and see you tomorrow!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
More 1000 Page Members!
Congratulations Mary, for being our FIRST 3000 page club member. This is absolutely amazing and I am so proud that you have gone above and beyond the reading every quarter. Fantastic!
Great job, Ezekiel for getting in the 2000 page club! Keep reading all year long!The Day After Makoshika!
Well our field trip was absolutely amazing. I don't think that many of the kids knew that hiking was that physical because many mentioned that they didn't think there was going to be so much walking! :) I forget sometimes we aren't in the Pacific Northwest anymore and kids here don't go hiking all the time. :) A group of pictures from the trail will be coming soon!
Today I gave the kids their current grades as of this morning. Many of them were not too pleased to see that result. I think many of them are shocked that their missing assignments are making such an impact on their grades. I guess it is a learning lesson for many of them. I hope that all of the missing work they have is going to come in tomorrow because tomorrow is the last day I can accept late work for the grade book. Imani, Jeremiah, Semarah, Theo, Dani, Kirsten, and Cole all have missing assignments. I really hope they come in!
Tomorrow students have their make-up work due, Workbook pages 211-214, and their human body pocketbook. This pocketbook is something that we have worked on for a month and a half now for science and is a significant portion of their grade. If students do not return this, their grade will surely become an F. Students have been given time to work on the activities EVERY time we worked on science. Some students chose not to make very good use of that time and therefore have a lot to complete.
I can't wait to see you all tomorrow for our last full Friday of the year! Holy Cow! Bring in all that work, study those spelling words and rest up! Tomorrow is supposed to be cooler (thank goodness) and so it should be a fun day!
Today I gave the kids their current grades as of this morning. Many of them were not too pleased to see that result. I think many of them are shocked that their missing assignments are making such an impact on their grades. I guess it is a learning lesson for many of them. I hope that all of the missing work they have is going to come in tomorrow because tomorrow is the last day I can accept late work for the grade book. Imani, Jeremiah, Semarah, Theo, Dani, Kirsten, and Cole all have missing assignments. I really hope they come in!
Tomorrow students have their make-up work due, Workbook pages 211-214, and their human body pocketbook. This pocketbook is something that we have worked on for a month and a half now for science and is a significant portion of their grade. If students do not return this, their grade will surely become an F. Students have been given time to work on the activities EVERY time we worked on science. Some students chose not to make very good use of that time and therefore have a lot to complete.
I can't wait to see you all tomorrow for our last full Friday of the year! Holy Cow! Bring in all that work, study those spelling words and rest up! Tomorrow is supposed to be cooler (thank goodness) and so it should be a fun day!
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Welcome to the Jungle!
This will be a quick post for the night because tonight is our Spring Concert. The concert starts at 6 o'clock and I can't wait to see all of the hard work! See you there!
Monday, May 17, 2010
Last Spelling List!
Well it is the last full week of school already so our last spelling list of third grade is on its way! This week we are working on words that have the "qu" spelling in them.
The whole class words are:
quilt quite quiet quit square squeak squabble squid quality squirt
quote queen quest question quiz quack quick hundred
thousand million *bouquet
The word marked with the * is the challenge word for the week.
The Challenge words for MB, CB, KK, and EU are
acquire acquaintance antique aqueduct banquet clique equilibrium
grotesque inquisitive masquerade misquotation prerequisite quadrillion
qualification qualitative quartz queasy quirkiness requisition
squalor *bouquet
The word marked with the * is the challenge word for the week.
Study hard and make this last spelling list count!
The whole class words are:
quilt quite quiet quit square squeak squabble squid quality squirt
quote queen quest question quiz quack quick hundred
thousand million *bouquet
The word marked with the * is the challenge word for the week.
The Challenge words for MB, CB, KK, and EU are
acquire acquaintance antique aqueduct banquet clique equilibrium
grotesque inquisitive masquerade misquotation prerequisite quadrillion
qualification qualitative quartz queasy quirkiness requisition
squalor *bouquet
The word marked with the * is the challenge word for the week.
Study hard and make this last spelling list count!
9 days left of school! Where did the time go?
Well today was a super fast Monday for us! It is our second to last Monday of the year, how weird! I have no idea where the time has gone from us!
Today we had a LOT of extra music practices to get ready for tomorrow night's concert. The concert starts at 6:00 p.m. and students need to be here at 5:45 p.m. Students brought home a piece of paper today from our music teacher, Mrs. Drummond explaining what the dress code will be and other details about the program. Since the music program is a jungle theme, students are encouraged to wear brightly colored clothes to the concert.
We also read some more of our Little House on the Prairie book and we worked on our mapping skills during math and social studies. In science, we started learning about the Nervous System and we will continue learning about it tomorrow afternoon.
Looking ahead to Wednesday for the field trip...
As a reminder, the bus will be leaving for the field trip at 8:10 a.m. so your student MUST be here before then. We will not be waiting for students who arrive tardy. Students need to wear comfortable clothes and shoes because we will be hiking all day long. Dress code is the same as it is when we are at Frontier but keep in mind that it will be warm on the trip so dress for the weather. Short-shorts, spaghetti straps, and flip-flops are NOT allowed on the trip. Students need to bring a sack lunch because one will not be provided for them. I suggest that students bring $5-$10 in cash on the trip in case they want souvenirs and so we can stop for ice cream on the way home from the trip. If students would like to bring sunscreen, hats, sunglasses, bug spray, etc. they are responsible for carrying those items during the ENTIRE trip. Chaperones will not be carrying student items.
Wednesday should be a lot of fun and I can't wait to see Makoshika Park!
Homework today is to finish coloring our state maps we started today. Other than that, keep reading at home because most people still need to improve their reading grade. Keep working hard and end the year strong!
Today we had a LOT of extra music practices to get ready for tomorrow night's concert. The concert starts at 6:00 p.m. and students need to be here at 5:45 p.m. Students brought home a piece of paper today from our music teacher, Mrs. Drummond explaining what the dress code will be and other details about the program. Since the music program is a jungle theme, students are encouraged to wear brightly colored clothes to the concert.
We also read some more of our Little House on the Prairie book and we worked on our mapping skills during math and social studies. In science, we started learning about the Nervous System and we will continue learning about it tomorrow afternoon.
Looking ahead to Wednesday for the field trip...
As a reminder, the bus will be leaving for the field trip at 8:10 a.m. so your student MUST be here before then. We will not be waiting for students who arrive tardy. Students need to wear comfortable clothes and shoes because we will be hiking all day long. Dress code is the same as it is when we are at Frontier but keep in mind that it will be warm on the trip so dress for the weather. Short-shorts, spaghetti straps, and flip-flops are NOT allowed on the trip. Students need to bring a sack lunch because one will not be provided for them. I suggest that students bring $5-$10 in cash on the trip in case they want souvenirs and so we can stop for ice cream on the way home from the trip. If students would like to bring sunscreen, hats, sunglasses, bug spray, etc. they are responsible for carrying those items during the ENTIRE trip. Chaperones will not be carrying student items.
Wednesday should be a lot of fun and I can't wait to see Makoshika Park!
Homework today is to finish coloring our state maps we started today. Other than that, keep reading at home because most people still need to improve their reading grade. Keep working hard and end the year strong!
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Long Division and Lilacs
Today was such a beautiful day! We could not have asked for better weather to be planting the lilac trees. We were shocked when all 200 trees were planted in about an hour and a half by the third and fourth grade classes. Great job and way to work hard! We all had a fun time being outside on such a sunny afternoon and enjoyed doing out part to help make Frontier a great place to go to school. From now on, the students can all day that they planted those trees. How cool is that!
Today we also continued working on long division. Yikes! Overall the class is doing really well learning the long division but it has so many steps that they are hard to keep track of! I am working on creating or finding some kind of song or video to help us all keep it straight. I am pretty impressed with their ability to keep track of everything though! I have heard many families talk about how math now is taught so differently than what it was like when they were growing up and learning these skills. I may post a video soon so you know exactly what I am teaching the students to do so if students say, "That's not how Miss D. taught us to do it!" you have an easily accessible resource to look at to find the answer! :)
Tomorrow students have their Little House on the Prairie vocabulary words, workbook packet, and their spelling contract due tomorrow. They have had all of these assignments since Monday and have been given at least 30 minutes DAILY to work on them. When students were getting their homework ready to take home today though I noticed that some people were not using that time wisely and have a lot of work to do. Maybe next time they will learn their lesson! :)
Have a great evening and study hard for your spelling test. It is our second to last one for the whole year (whoa!). Make it count and end the year strongly!
Today we also continued working on long division. Yikes! Overall the class is doing really well learning the long division but it has so many steps that they are hard to keep track of! I am working on creating or finding some kind of song or video to help us all keep it straight. I am pretty impressed with their ability to keep track of everything though! I have heard many families talk about how math now is taught so differently than what it was like when they were growing up and learning these skills. I may post a video soon so you know exactly what I am teaching the students to do so if students say, "That's not how Miss D. taught us to do it!" you have an easily accessible resource to look at to find the answer! :)
Tomorrow students have their Little House on the Prairie vocabulary words, workbook packet, and their spelling contract due tomorrow. They have had all of these assignments since Monday and have been given at least 30 minutes DAILY to work on them. When students were getting their homework ready to take home today though I noticed that some people were not using that time wisely and have a lot of work to do. Maybe next time they will learn their lesson! :)
Have a great evening and study hard for your spelling test. It is our second to last one for the whole year (whoa!). Make it count and end the year strongly!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Lilac Planting Tomorrow!
Today was a quick day! It was the start of our wacky afternoon schedule as well.
Today we got to see the dress rehearsal of the Spring Frolic this afternoon. Frolic is Thursday and Friday evenings starting at 6:30 if you are interested. You may buy tickets in the office.
Tomorrow (and maybe Friday) afternoon third and fourth grade are going out along the fence line and planting a bunch of lilac trees that our school bought! It will be a great opportunity to enjoy the nice weather and do something meaningful for the school. Like I told the students today, for the rest of your lives you can always come back and see the trees and know that you planted them when they were babies! Since we are going to be planting, make sure your student brings tennis shoes or some kind of shoe that can be used in the dirt. They won't get muddy (unless we get rain tonight) but we will be getting dirty planting all of these trees! That's okay though, a little dirt never hurt anyone!
We are still working hard on getting everything finished up that they are missing for the year. We only have 6 more days to get everything in. Can we do it?
Today students were sent home with book orders. If you are interested in ordering, the book orders will be submitted Monday evening to make sure that we get the books before the end of the school year so make sure your student has their order in before the end of the school day on Monday. If you want to order online go online to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs. Sign in as a parent and use the user name FrontierThirdGrade and the password is order. This will be our last order for the year and there are some great deals for summer reading. If you order online you even get a free book in the Fall! Wow!
See you all tomorrow, keep working hard on getting your work done, and get plenty of sleep!
Today we got to see the dress rehearsal of the Spring Frolic this afternoon. Frolic is Thursday and Friday evenings starting at 6:30 if you are interested. You may buy tickets in the office.
Tomorrow (and maybe Friday) afternoon third and fourth grade are going out along the fence line and planting a bunch of lilac trees that our school bought! It will be a great opportunity to enjoy the nice weather and do something meaningful for the school. Like I told the students today, for the rest of your lives you can always come back and see the trees and know that you planted them when they were babies! Since we are going to be planting, make sure your student brings tennis shoes or some kind of shoe that can be used in the dirt. They won't get muddy (unless we get rain tonight) but we will be getting dirty planting all of these trees! That's okay though, a little dirt never hurt anyone!
We are still working hard on getting everything finished up that they are missing for the year. We only have 6 more days to get everything in. Can we do it?
Today students were sent home with book orders. If you are interested in ordering, the book orders will be submitted Monday evening to make sure that we get the books before the end of the school year so make sure your student has their order in before the end of the school day on Monday. If you want to order online go online to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs. Sign in as a parent and use the user name FrontierThirdGrade and the password is order. This will be our last order for the year and there are some great deals for summer reading. If you order online you even get a free book in the Fall! Wow!
See you all tomorrow, keep working hard on getting your work done, and get plenty of sleep!
Spelling Words for May 10-14
Sorry about the spelling words for this week! I completely forgot to post them! Thank you, Paisley, for your gentle reminder that the spelling words were missing!
Here are the whole class words for this week:
caught thought bought laugh
through enough fought daughter
taught brought ought cough
dough rough though naughty
distraught laughter drought
All of the words this week have the "ough" or the "augh" spelling so study hard! They are tricky!
Here are the challenge words for CB, KK, and EU:
apostrophe parenthesis extraneous chronological
punctuation stanza suffix foreshadow
refrain narrative bibliography almanac
alliteration inherit constructive simile metaphor beneficial personification
Great job to everyone who has been turning in their spelling contracts on time and working hard to end the year on a positive note. Keep it up! Only two and a half more weeks to go!
Here are the whole class words for this week:
caught thought bought laugh
through enough fought daughter
taught brought ought cough
dough rough though naughty
distraught laughter drought
All of the words this week have the "ough" or the "augh" spelling so study hard! They are tricky!
Here are the challenge words for CB, KK, and EU:
apostrophe parenthesis extraneous chronological
punctuation stanza suffix foreshadow
refrain narrative bibliography almanac
alliteration inherit constructive simile metaphor beneficial personification
Great job to everyone who has been turning in their spelling contracts on time and working hard to end the year on a positive note. Keep it up! Only two and a half more weeks to go!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Sorry for the Delay
Hi Everyone!
It has been a while since I have posted last. The end of the year is quite a busy time but I am back!
Yesterday the students got an eye-full when they came in from their weekend and a third of our board was covered in names of students with missing assignments, yes a third. It was a lot to look at! I am keeping those students in for recess in the morning and in the afternoon if they have missing assignments and I am giving them that time to make up that missing work. Some of the students are missing quite a few things and we only have until next Friday to bring it all in before I cannot enter grades for makeup work. I hope we get it all done! Today we had quite a few things turned in, which was good, but there are still a LOT of names to go. I am proud of the students who have been getting everything in on time and haven't had to stay in! Ezekiel and Ernest are the only two that have turned in everything, so nice job guys!
Today we continued to plug away at our Little House on the Prairie book and finished through chapter 10! It is going so quickly and we are really enjoying it so far! Tomorrow I can't wait to see what happens when Laura and her family visit an abandoned Indian village on the prairie!
This afternoon we started learning about the circulatory system in our journey through the human body. We learned how to take a pulse on ourselves and learned what happens to our pulse when we exercise! We were almost breaking a sweat! We were running in place, doing jumping jacks, side lunges, punching, and a combination of all of them. Whew!
Tonight's homework is Phonics page 199-200, 5 pages (and they can be any 5 pages) of the workbook packet which is due Friday, and one human body activity.
Can't wait to see you all tomorrow. Let's keep our spirits high and end the year strong!
It has been a while since I have posted last. The end of the year is quite a busy time but I am back!
Yesterday the students got an eye-full when they came in from their weekend and a third of our board was covered in names of students with missing assignments, yes a third. It was a lot to look at! I am keeping those students in for recess in the morning and in the afternoon if they have missing assignments and I am giving them that time to make up that missing work. Some of the students are missing quite a few things and we only have until next Friday to bring it all in before I cannot enter grades for makeup work. I hope we get it all done! Today we had quite a few things turned in, which was good, but there are still a LOT of names to go. I am proud of the students who have been getting everything in on time and haven't had to stay in! Ezekiel and Ernest are the only two that have turned in everything, so nice job guys!
Today we continued to plug away at our Little House on the Prairie book and finished through chapter 10! It is going so quickly and we are really enjoying it so far! Tomorrow I can't wait to see what happens when Laura and her family visit an abandoned Indian village on the prairie!
This afternoon we started learning about the circulatory system in our journey through the human body. We learned how to take a pulse on ourselves and learned what happens to our pulse when we exercise! We were almost breaking a sweat! We were running in place, doing jumping jacks, side lunges, punching, and a combination of all of them. Whew!
Tonight's homework is Phonics page 199-200, 5 pages (and they can be any 5 pages) of the workbook packet which is due Friday, and one human body activity.
Can't wait to see you all tomorrow. Let's keep our spirits high and end the year strong!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Feliz Seis de Mayo!
Well I am back today (finally!) and I am glad to be back with my class. I missed getting to see their faces this week! I got great reports from the substitute which was great too! It's always nice to hear good things about your students!
Today we had a fiesta in our classroom to make up for me being gone on Cinco de Mayo and the students behaving so well while I was gone this week. We had quite a fun afternoon with our foods. I made salsa and chips, chicken mole, beef enchiladas, cherry empanadas, and tres leches cake. It was super yummy and we all had a great time!
Today we also got all of our donorschoose.org things! It was really fun to see all of our new goodies and see what we have in our room! I will post pictures very soon so we can show everyone what we got!
Tomorrow you have your spelling contract, workbook packet, Phonics page 99-102, and Workbook 2, page 127-128. Make sure you have all of your work done and turned in, first thing tomorrow morning. We only have 2 weeks to get everything caught up for grades so make sure we make these last 3 weeks of school count!
Spelling test tomorrow so study those words! See you tomorrow!
Today we had a fiesta in our classroom to make up for me being gone on Cinco de Mayo and the students behaving so well while I was gone this week. We had quite a fun afternoon with our foods. I made salsa and chips, chicken mole, beef enchiladas, cherry empanadas, and tres leches cake. It was super yummy and we all had a great time!
Today we also got all of our donorschoose.org things! It was really fun to see all of our new goodies and see what we have in our room! I will post pictures very soon so we can show everyone what we got!
Tomorrow you have your spelling contract, workbook packet, Phonics page 99-102, and Workbook 2, page 127-128. Make sure you have all of your work done and turned in, first thing tomorrow morning. We only have 2 weeks to get everything caught up for grades so make sure we make these last 3 weeks of school count!
Spelling test tomorrow so study those words! See you tomorrow!
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