Area and Research Clubs

Hello families! Please remember we are going skating on Friday afternoon. Students need helmets, coats, snow pants, and boots. 

We also have a busy week next week: Monday is an early release day, Wednesday is Fine Arts Night, Friday is Flynn Field Trip as a heads up! 

We have been working so hard in third grade this week to understand area and its relationship to multiplication. We got to find the area of different objects around our classroom using construction paper square units. Today we talked about standard units of measurement for area including square inches, square feet, and square yards. Students are starting to understanding how they can use their knowledge of length and width to determine total area using multiplication. 

We also launched nonfiction research clubs this week and we are having a BLAST! Students are working hard to synthesize information across texts and read about a topic from multiple sources. Ask your child what animal they are becoming an expert on! 

Vermont Energy Education Program

On Friday, we had Aaron from the Vermont Energy Education Program come back to Summit and work with the third graders on engineering with wind. Last year, he completed this workshop with all the second grade classes. This year, we got to attempt to revise our designs with different materials! We had a blast! Thanks VEEP! 

February Updates

Hello families! 

Your child came home with two different permission slips that should be returned as soon as possible. One permission slip is for Fine Arts Night. Third graders have the opportunity to participate in Fine Arts Night at the high school. There is a morning rehearsal with an evening performance. This is an optional activity, but if your child would like to participate please return this form. 

Second, our class is finishing up a character studies unit and one of our read alouds was Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. We are hoping to watch the accompanying movie on the Friday before February break. Please return this permission slip and email with any questions or concerns. 

Last Friday, during team time we shared Malala's Magic Pencil with the whole third grade. In excitement of the 100th day of school approaching, third grade wrote 100 dreams for the world. Check out some of the AMAZING dreams Summit third graders came up with outside of Mrs. Cole's classroom. 

We have started Unit 5 in math this week! We are diving into multiplication, division, and area. Today we modeled different story problems using linear units and square tiles. 

Lastly, we had a blast during Spirit Week last week! Thank you for supporting your children and this celebration of all their hard work.