Updates!

Hello Families!

You should have received a couple of notes home this week about upcoming events in third grade.

This Friday, the entire third grade will be participating in various nature stations at Summit to practice for some future field trips in nature. All third graders will be rotating through nature related stations and eating lunch outside from 10-12:30. If your child did not order a bag lunch from school please send them with a lunch from home on Friday. We are always looking for volunteers so if you are interested in helping with a station this Friday send me a note or email. We will also be looking for families to join us on future nature trips, so look for information in the coming weeks!

On Tuesday September 25th, Summit will have Open House from 6-7pm. This is a great time to see your child's classroom and learn about the 3rd grade curriculum. Hope to see you all there!

We have entered our fall assessment window. I am enjoying spending time getting to know your students as readers, writers, spellers, and mathematicians. Your third graders have been working so hard completing these beginning of year assessments.

You should have received a green paper in Friday Folders about signing up for fall conferences. Please return at your convenience so I can confirm times for families!

On Mondays in the fall, and full time in the spring, we have a UVM student teacher named Ms. Locke who will be joining our classroom! We are so excited for this opportunity!

As always, please feel free to reach out to me through email, phone, in person, etc., with questions, comments, concerns, and celebrations!

Thanks!

First Two Weeks!

Wow! The first two weeks of school have flown by! I am having so much fun with your children every day! We are enjoying our time getting to know each other and build our classroom community. 

Reading: Our first unit focuses on Building a Reading Life! We learn about picking just right books, keeping track of our reading patterns, finding a good spot, and celebrating our successes. As a class we reached our goal of 20 minutes of reading stamina so we have earned the opportunity to open new reading spots on Monday! 

We wrote about our best reading spots! 

We practiced reading at our table spots and building our reading stamina! 

In math our first unit focuses on addition and subtraction using hands-on materials. We started the year by creating people glyphs to get to know the mathematicians in our classroom. We learned that most people in our class like to work alone (red hats). 

We also have been introduced to our workplace routine (math games) and learned three new workplaces: Make the Sum, Target Twenty and Subtraction Bingo! We talked about what makes a good workplace partner. 

We have enjoyed some fun team building and get to know you activities! We started with a series of hula hoop team challenges! 

We had a whole class rock, paper, scissors tournament! 

And we designed, constructed, and tested parachutes to drop off our new playground! 

Lastly, we had third grade team time where we talked about using self-control in third grade. We acted out various scenarios demonstrating great self-control and poor self-control. There were lots of laughs!