LITERACY
Read alouds this week focused on The Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk. The students really enjoyed them and are looking forward to us tracking down the final book!
We started up with our mini writing lessons again this week. Our new focus is ORGANIZATION. This week students worked on exciting beginnings, organized middles and satisfying endings of stories. One of our lessons included a beginning and ending of a story and the students had to come up with the middle. The story started out with a boy very afraid to walk home passed a particular house because of a scary dog..it ended with him ducking behind a bush while the intimidating dog barked. The ending showed the same boy excited to meet up with the dog to play fetch. Below is the middle that the students came up with:
NUMERACY
This week in math we focusing on trading with base ten blocks. What do you do when you have 13 ones? You trade ten of them in for a tens rod and have three ones left over. We practiced this skill using base ten sketches to give us visual support. We then took the leap to making these trades without the visual support of a base ten sketch. Students were told to circle the "red flag" (the double digit number) and then trade the tens digit of that number forward to the next place value place.
All of this work is leading us into multi-digit addition and subtraction with trading and borrowing.
SCIENCE
We didn't have a ton of time for science this week, so I incorporated in into our literacy time. We read through a package about sound and highlighted the important facts that we need to know. Students then "took notes" on strips of construction paper and added these "key learnings" to our bulletin board.
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Our concerts are on Monday at 1:10 and 6:30pm. If your child is going to be away for the evening performance, please let me know. Students need to be at the school at 6:15. There is nothing specific that they need to wear. Students will come down to the classroom at 6:15 to get organized and lined up. Here is a photo of our arrangement on the stage so that you can choose your seats accordingly.
CHRISTMAS ELVES DONATIONS
3C families were amazingly generous over the past two days bringing in 198 items for the Christmas Elves! That has put us in first place for the classroom competition...but not by much! We are so lucky to have so many generous families at RBES! We will continue to accept donations until Wednesday if you haven't had a chance to donate yet or if you'd like to donate some more! Thank you so much for your support with our Grade Three Giving Project!
On Thursday morning, students will be heading to the Christmas Elves Depot to volunteer by sorting our food donations. There is a permission slip on PowerSchool for you to fill out so that your child can attend. We will taking the bus to the depot with the food all loaded up and working for about 45 minutes before heading back on the bus. A huge thank you goes out to Rhonda Stelter for volunteering her bus services for us!
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