Week 2 Update!

By Anonymous -
Hi all! Happy Friday! I hope you all had another great week! We had a lot of exciting things taking place in our room this week. 

I am so excited about this group and their eagerness to learn and participate in a variety of activities. They have really jumped right into third grade. All students are kind, helpful, and have such a love of learning. As their teacher, that's pretty awesome to see everyday.

Thank you all for supporting our math and reading homework throughout this week. I love hearing students come in during the morning and jump at the opportunity to share how many pages they read the night before. THANK YOU!

We were so eager to begin choosing books for our book boxes! Each student chose a chapter book that they will be taking home each night and reading during independent time in the classroom as well. Next week, we will dive deeper into reading incentives and book challenges that students will be participating in throughout the year. I LOVE reading and I already look forward to sharing the love of reading with our students this year.

We continued practicing place value in math and moved into graphing later in the week. We collected data, made graphs, and even created our own human graph. Students love learning about one another by collecting information and applying that information to graphs and pictographs.

We are also super excited to kick off our Mystery Skypes. Mystery Skype is a program where students Skype with classrooms across the country and try to guess which state the classroom is located in based off of geographical questions and clues. Stay tuned for our first update on our Mystery Skype later this month!

Finally, a letter in regards to our Third Grade Beginning of Grade Reading Test went home earlier this week. This is a test of skills that students will learn by the end of third grade. Please be aware of that! We will get score reports but again, this is a state test based on end of grade expectations. Students will take the test on Tuesday, August 20th.

Thank you all for another great week! Please let me know if you have any questions! Below you will find your child's vocabulary words for next week. We will have a quiz on both sets of words next Friday.

Unit 1- Week 2 Vocab.
assemble
grumble
calculate
elegat
privilege

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