Ms.
Little’s Third Grade Beacon
March 14, 2013
March 14, 2013
Upcoming & Important
Events:
·
Friday, March 15th
– Book
orders due
·
Friday, March 15th
–
Dismissal at 12:30
·
Tuesday, March 19th
–
English Language Arts MCAS
·
Wednesday, March 20th
–
English Language Arts MCAS
·
Friday, March 22nd
– Dismissal
at 12:30
·
Friday, March 29th
–
Dismissal at 11:25 for Conferences
Classroom News:
Madison: We
have first grade buddies. They read with us last week. My buddy is Demetri. He
read a book to me. It was called Railroad
Toad. The book was about a toad that traveled. And then he read a counting
book. He was good at reading.
Lily: We read Time for Kids
last week. Time for Kids, or TFK, had an article about healthy foods. There was
a bunch of food! I liked that article. After we read, we answered questions.
It’s fun reading Time for Kids.
Jameson: We did not have Gym last
week because of the snow day. The week before we practiced hockey at Gym.
Everyone got a hockey stick. We played tag. People had a ball and chased other
people that did not have a ball. The people tagged you with the ball.
Molly: We finished A
Series of Unfortunate Events. It was about kids who have a bad life. The
kids’ names are Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. Count Olaf is a villain who wants the
Baudelaire fortune. Count Olaf murdered Uncle Monty, the Baudelaire’s uncle.
Cherokee: We have a new job. It is
called Poet of the Week. It is a nice job. What you have to do is every time at
morning meeting you choose a poem you want to read. Then you read it out loud,
and then everyone reads it together and we talk about it. This week I’m the
Poet of the Week. It is a fun job!
Seamus: Last week we had a snow
day. We were going to have Gym but the snow came and we did not have school.
Most kids played in the snow. Some kids played indoors. On Monday we came back
to school.
Katie: Last week we wrote
division word problems. Here is an example: There are 14 bananas but only 7
people. How many bananas will each person have if they are shared equally? You
had to use key words when you wrote your problem like equal, each, share,
split, and divide.
Jesse: We did an MCAS practice
sheet by ourselves. It was called The Big
Orange Splot. It begins when a seagull
drops a can of paint and everybody was stressed. The seagull dropped the can of
paint on a man’s house. His name was Mr. Plumbean. The next morning he painted
his own house but everybody else still had the same houses and they were mad.
In the story he bought an alligator and a hammock. The lessons in the story
were you can’t change someone’s personality and to respect other people’s
differences.
Phaydan: On the first week of
March we made March calendars. We first got a paper from the paper passers
Elizabeth and Cherrie/Cherokee. After that we wrote our names and March at the
top. After we wrote in the little rectangles the names of the days: Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Then we wrote the numbers in the squares. Last we wrote what we are
doing in March in the right square.
Nathan: On Monday we cut out
triangles that had multiplication and division facts on them. There were 36 of
them! There are 3 numbers on each triangle: 1 big number, 1 small number, and
another small number. To use them, you cover up the big number if you want to
do multiplication and the other person solves that problem. If you want to do
division you cover up one of the small numbers and the other person solves that
problem.
Logan: We read I Wanna Iguana. It was about a kid that
is named Alex. He is begging his mom to get an iguana by writing notes. Then
his mom said to look on his dresser. He looked on his dresser and there was an
iguana on his dresser.
Tyler: Last Monday in Art we
made snakes in the grass. First we got a cardboard piece. Then we got some tape
and some string and we taped the string and we wrapped it around the cardboard
to make grass. Then we cut out a snake, and then we put it in the grass. Then
we left for dismissal.
Ali: In our Writing Workshop
stories we made About the Author pages. An About the Author page is something
to tell you about the person who wrote the book. In the About the Author
usually people write about what they like. They also write about what they do
in their free time. Then we drew a picture of ourselves at the bottom.
Elizabeth: Last
Wednesday we had Library. In Library, Mrs. Patino read us stories about women
who helped America.
She read that because March is Women’s History Month. She read us two stories.
When she finished reading we went on the computers and checked out books.
Tatyiana: Last week we went to
Music. We played on our recorders. We played Jingle Bells, we played pages 9
and 10, and then we went to another station. We played a game and then our
teacher came so I said bye to Miss Lilley.
Emily: Last week we got new
seats. There are three groups of desks. I’m sitting with Ali, Phaydan, Lily,
David, and Daniel. My friends Molly and Madison are sitting at a different
table. They’re sitting with Brenna, Jesse, Logan, Seamus, Sophia, Katie, and
Jameson.
Brenna: We saw a drumming
performance last week at the cafeteria. It was loud. Very loud! It was two
girls from a drumming group. They played all kinds of drums. I liked watching
it.
David: In Math we started
learning about fact families. A fact family is a group of 4 math problems all
with the same numbers. One example is:
7
x 10 = 70
10
x 7 = 70
70
/ 10 = 7
70
/ 7 = 10
We
started fact families in first grade. You can also use fact families with
addition and subtraction. Here’s an example:
5
+ 5 = 10
5
+ 5 = 10
10
– 5 = 5
10
– 5 = 5
Seanalee: In Math we played a dice
game to practice fact families. We rolled two dice. For example, if I rolled a
5 and a 6 my partner would need to find the third number in the fact family.
They would find it by doing 5 x 6 and 30 is the answer. Then we wrote the fact
family.
Sophia: In Literacy we learned
about contractions. Contractions are two words put together, then you take away
a certain letter and in its place you put an apostrophe. We worked on
contractions for a few minutes and wrote some in our notebooks.
Ms. Little: The English Language Arts
portion of MCAS testing will be administered the 19th and 20th
of March. There will be no homework assigned during that week. Also, spring
conference reminders were sent home in your child’s backpack folder last
Thursday. Please let me know if you need to change the date and/or time and we
can reschedule. Enjoy the weekend.
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