Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. This week is full of activities! Tuesday we have our awards assembly, Thursday will mark the beginning of our life skills classes, and Friday we have a unit assessment and an author's visit. Our unit assessment on Friday will be over addition and subtraction, this unit will end Thursday and we will review then for the test Friday. Our next unit starts Monday, October 10th. During this unit, students will learn about pictographs, bar graphs, and dot plots. This unit will end mid-October, and then we will begin multiplication!
For science, we finished our unit on properties of matter, and will be moving into investigating matter and change. We will complete a short unit on weather during the second six weeks grading period.
Our guided math framework is up and running fairly smoothly, and the students are really enjoying all the different activities. During guided math, the students rotate through four different stations. The math facts station gives them the opportunity to build fact fluency. Right now, we are working on mastery of addition facts. The teacher's choice station is where I hold small-group instruction, and the hands-on station is where students can work with manipulatives or other "outside the box" math tools to practice what we are working on in class. The last station, the at your seat station, is where students will practice what they have learned at the teacher's choice station. We rotate through each station about every 20 minutes, so it provides variety and a change of activity to keep them engaged and excited about math.
If you have any questions for me, or need anything, please do not hesitate to call or email. I hope you have a wonderful week!
Warmly,
Mrs. Ebel
Upcoming Events:
October 3: Booster Club Paint Party Fund Raiser
October 4: 1st 6 week Assemblies K-2 8:00, 3-5 8:30
October 10: No School
October 18: 3rd Grade Musical
October 21: Picture Day
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