Diamond Dell

The students really enjoyed mining for gems, rocks and minerals today! They should be able to tell you what all their "treasures" are called! I would really like for them to bring their rocks and minerals back when we are studying rocks and minerals. Please remind them to put them in a safe spot! 

Mystery Number

We did our first Mystery Number with a class from Tennessee today! We asked yes/no questions using math vocabulary to figure out what their number was and they did the same. At the end we learned some interesting facts about Tennessee. Did you know Mountain Dew was invented in Tennessee? We also shared facts we researched about South Carolina and our school. 

Students listen to someone ask us a question.

Lauren and Jacob crossing out numbers that we are eliminating. 

We guessed their number! It was 36. 

Read with the Gamecocks

Your child is bringing home their reading log for Read with the Gamecocks. Your child can earn tickets to two games. Men's basketball on Saturday, January 7th and women's basketball on Thursday, January 12th. Every time they read, please remind them to write down the book and number of pages they read. The time to read starts today and ends on December 2nd. The logs are due on December 5th. Please make sure your child adds up the number of pages he/she read before turning in the form. I would love to have everyone participate since I know they are reading!  

The Next Two Weeks

Hard to believe it is almost Thanksgiving and we are almost half way through the second nine weeks! This post will be the update for next week and the week after break. If anything changes as far as assessments, I will let you know.
Happy Thanksgiving!  

Talent Show

Shane and Joseph both participated in the Talent Show from our class this week! I heard they did a great job singing, dancing and playing the piano! 

Animal Story Sharing

One more picture of both classes at our celebration! 

Math- We continue to work with multiplication and division in Module 3. Please continue to encourage your child to practice his/her multiplication facts. The students will have a quiz on Tuesday, November 29th. 

Language Arts- We are focusing on text features, how to locate them and gain meaning from them using different nonfiction texts. We will start our mentor sentence from George Washington's Teeth which will focus on adjectives. I had to put this on the "back burner" last week. 

Science- We will wrap up water habitats with a test on Tuesday, November 22nd. (oceans, estuaries, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, swamps) The students have notes, a Box It and a Study Buddy to help them study. After Thanksgiving we will focus on Deserts and the Tundra. 

Social Studies- We continue to learn about Colonial Times in South Carolina. 

Sharing Our Animal Stories

It was wild in third grade today! The students looked great in their animal disguises and they did a great job sharing their stories with Miss Rosenberg's class! I have to work on grading them and then you will have the opportunity to read your child's story. 

Mystery Hangout

We met with another 3rd Grade class today on Google Hangout. It was so much fun trying to figure out where they were located in the USA. We asked them yes/no questions and they asked us questions. They figured out we were in SC and shortly after we guessed Wisconsin!!!! They told us a little bit about Wisconsin and we gave them some information about South Carolina. What a fun way to connect with another state, learn about our country and practice our map skills! We will do more Mystery Hangouts this year! 

Next Week

Happy Veteran's Day
Thank you to all the veterans for serving our country and protecting our freedom!! The third graders really enjoyed listening to our visitors this morning speak about their life in the military. 

Jacob, Rhelani and Xavier with their military parents. 

Sierra enjoying lunch with her dad!

Lily enjoying lunch too! 

Mystery Hangout ?
The students are SUPER excited about our Mystery Hangout Monday!! We will be "hanging out" with another 3rd grade class in the USA. We will be asking them questions to determine what state they are located in and they will be asking our class questions. This will be a great way to learn the geography of our country and map skills! Please remind your child not to wear any shirt that will give away where we are located! Wonder where they are located? 

Beef O'Brady's Spirit Night

Monday, November 14th is Spirit Night at Beef O' Brady's for Upper Campus. Please click here to learn more! 

Math- The students will have a quiz on Wednesday on addition, subtraction, comparing and ordering numbers as well as expanded and standard form. We will then move into Module 3, Multiplication and Division with units of 0,1, 6-9 and multiples of 10. I will email you a Parent Tip Sheet for Module 3. 

Language- Tuesday the class will share their animal stories with Miss Rosenberg's class. We will be sharing at 2:00 pm, if you want to stop by. Please remind your child to bring his/her animal "costume" if they are going to dress up. We did not get to text features this week so we will start next week. Students should be able to locate them, know their purpose and understand how to gain meaning from them. 

Science-We continue discussing water habitats. (oceans, swamps, estuaries, rivers, ponds, lakes etc.) 

Social Studies- The students will present their paper slide show on their explorer. We will also move into Colonial Times.

Boosterthon Celebration

The students received popcorn today as a reward for raising over $30,000 for Boosterthon. Shane Leigh Bagwell was the student who raised the most in our class so she and all the other classroom leaders had the opportunity to silly string administration this afternoon. 

Next Week

Dictionaries

Thanks to the Blythewood Rotary Club each 3rd grader received their own personal dictionary. The students were super excited about receiving one. I'm sure they will put them to good use during language arts this year.

Parent University

Please click on Parent University to learn about an opportunity on November 29th at LCEU where you can learn how to help your child at home with reading, writing, math and homework. 

3rd Grade Field Study Information
Please look for a yellow sheet in your child's Friday Folder about our field studies this year and how you can pay for them.

Book Fair
The media center will be having a Book Swap on Monday, November 21st. If your child would like to participate they can bring in up to 10 chapter books before the 21st to swap for other books.

Math- We will move away from Eureka Math this week. The students will learn how to read, order and compare numbers to 999,999. They will also learn how to put them into expanded and standard form. 

Language Arts- We continue wrapping up our animal stories and will work on putting the final touches on them to make them fabulous! We will share our stories with Miss Rosenberg's class on Tuesday, November 15th...can't wait to see my WILD class! We will move onto a mentor sentence from George Washington's Teeth with the focus being on adjectives. We will also start focusing on how to locate text features and how to gain meaning from them. 

Science-We continue discussing water habitats. (oceans, swamps, estuaries, rivers, ponds, lakes etc.) 

Social Studies- We will wrap up our unit on Explorers with a test on Friday. The students will also present their paper slide show to the class this week. 

Get Into Character

Students have been working hard on the writing process with their stories about the animal they were "turned into". As I shared in an earlier post, the students will read their story to another student from Miss Rosenberg's class. We thought it would be fun to have the students "dress up" as their animal when they share their story. We talked about it today and they are already coming up with some great ideas!!! It doesn't have to be anything elaborate and they can create their disguise with materials or clothes they already have at home. As of right now we will be sharing our stories on Tuesday, November 15th.