Ms.
Little’s Third Grade Beacon
February 28, 2013
Upcoming & Important
Events:
·
Thursday, February 28th
– MCAS
information night for parents
·
Friday, March 1st
– Dismissal
at 12:30
·
Friday, March 8th
–
Dismissal at 12:30
Classroom News:
Daniel: In Spelling we learned a
new activity. That activity is called Scrabble Spelling. In Scrabble Spelling
you have a list of letters with points for each letter. Then you write one of
your words. After your word is written you use the point chart to see how many
points your word is worth.
Phaydan: Last week we played
Subtraction Jeopardy during Math. Our team was team tigers. There were team
junior tigers, midget cupids, and unicorns. There were five categories to
choose from. There were questions worth 500 points and lower. They were all
subtraction questions. We won 900 points.
Katie: In Listen to Reading we read Tackylocks and the Three Bears. First,
there were three penguins acting like bears and Tacky was acting like
Goldielocks. They were putting on a play for some little penguins. The play
started, the narrator started, but the kids were so loud that he didn’t finish.
But when it was Tacky’s turn to go on the children began to be silent. At the
end, they took a bow.
Molly: At the beginning of
February we got new seats. I’m sitting with Ali, Elizabeth, and Phaydan. Ms.
Little let us sit with all girls and all boys. If we don’t work well with our
table then she moves us. In March we will switch our seats again.
Logan: We watched A Series of Unfortunate Events. It was a
mix of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd books. In the 1st
book, Violet had to marry Count Olaf to save Sunny from a cage up on the side
of the tower. In the 2nd book, Uncle Monty lives with reptiles and
we have not finished it yet. We don’t
know if we are going to read the 3rd book.
Colin: We switched back to doing
reading groups after doing writing groups. My group is reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins. Mr. Popper is
very weird. Ms. Burns read it to us in 1st grade. I love reading!
Elizabeth: For
the 100th day of school we made portraits of what we’ll look like
when we’re 100 years old. On the back of the paper we had to write what we’re
doing in the picture. The 100th day of school was fun. We also did
other activities. Everything had to do with 100.
David: During Read Aloud, we are
reading A Series of Unfortunate Events:
The Reptile Room. So far, Count Olaf has, or at least we think so, killed
Uncle Monty, even though he says he died of a snakebite. Before that, Uncle
Monty had a talk with the Baudelaire orphans. Uncle Monty thought that Count
Olaf was a herpetological spy trying to steal the Incredibly Deadly Viper. The
Incredibly Deadly Viper is a snake that Uncle Monty and his old assistant
found. I wonder what is going to happen next.
Lily: We received postcards
this week and we only need Oklahoma and Arkansas now! We got Jerusalem from Sophia’s mom, and Montana
and South Africa.
We really like getting postcards. Jerusalem is
in Asia! It’s fun getting postcards.
Jameson: At Gym we played dodge
ball with 1st graders. We went at a special time. It was very fun.
We listened to music while we played.
Tyler: Two weeks ago in Music we
practiced playing a new song on the recorder. After that we played a game. The
name of the game was Button and the Key. How you play is there is one seeker
and one passer outer. So the passer outer gives out the button and the key and
whoever has the button or the key has to make a funny voice and the seeker has
to find the person who has the button or the key.
Madison: In
Science we did an experiment about evaporation. The experiment was something
with lemon juice. We dunked our finger in the lemon juice and drew or wrote
something on the paper. When it was our turn we went over to Mrs. Messina and
she would blow dry it to speed up the evaporation and just the lemon juice
would show up. I thought it was cool. Everyone did it.
Seamus: Two weeks ago we had
Library. We went around trying to find 100 words that start with the letter C.
After when we were finished we went to the computers. We got to choose what
game we wanted to play. There were three sections to choose from. There was
ABCya, Starfall, and Education
City.
Tatyiana: We do DEAR time every
day. At DEAR time we read books. It is also called Read to Self. We learn
things from our books. We can sit wherever we want during DEAR time.
Nathan: We made 100th day
mosaics. Mosaics are pictures made out of stuff like paper. So we made pictures
out of little squares of paper. It was 100 pieces of paper. I made a blue
buffalo. At the end, somebody checked yours to make sure you had 100 pieces!
Cherokee: We just finished reading A Series of Unfortunate Events. It was a
very sad story. Count Olaf did some very mean things to the orphans. He also
wanted to marry Violet and he did not get to because Violet signed it with her
right hand instead of her left hand and you had to sign it with the hand you
use to write. So Violet did not marry Count Olaf.
Seanalee: We finished the water
cycle posters in Science. Our posters had accumulation, then evaporation, after
that is condensation, and then precipitation. It goes and never stops. If it
did we wouldn’t be here. We live on the water cycle!
Emily: The week before vacation
we played Subtraction Scoot. This is how we did it. First we got a piece of
paper that had a subtraction problem on it.
Next we solved the problem on a different piece of paper. Then we
switched to the desk that’s on our right or left, the teacher decides. Then we
keep on going and going like that. We did it to get better at our subtraction
facts.
Sophia: On Valentine’s Day we
made our own bags for valentines. We got to pass around our valentines and put
them in each other’s bags. Then we got to choose one candy from our bag to eat.
I chose a mystery flavored fun dip. Valentine’s Day was fun.
Jesse: Our class had a talent
show because we filled up the marble jar. A lot of people did singing. I did a
cartwheel and a handstand. We all brought up our chairs to watch. When someone
was done they asked if anyone had questions or comments.
Ali: On the 100th
day of school Ms. Little gave us a challenge. She split us up into groups of 3
and 4. The challenge was to make something out of 100 pattern blocks. My team
made a triangle. Then, we counted the other teams blocks to make sure they had
100.
Ms. Little: Thank you to families who
have donated shared classroom supplies. We are still running low on supplies
such as pump bottles of hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes. Any
contributions would be greatly appreciated. Enjoy the weekend.
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