Lifelong Learning
After I finish typing up this week’s newsletter and finish correcting your homework assignments, I will get to work updating our Home on the Web. Every week, I post this newsletter, the announcements below, important dates, weekly homework and anything…
Race to Camp Count-A-Lot
We’ve started our Big Race to Camp Count-A-Lot. I have given the students a challenge – to see if we can get all 23 students to memorize all of their multiplication tables from 0-10. As we master each times table,…
Rolling Along With Our Reading and Something COOL I Found!!
I visited the Scholastic site this morning – and we’re approaching our goal at a pretty good pace! If you know of anyone who has forgotten their username or password, have them let me know and I will help! (Casey…
School is a Hot Spot!
We had another great day today, despite the heat. The entire third grade tie-dyed their shirts for Field Day and our trip to the Canal next week.
Living Wax Museum
WOW is all that comes to mind when i think about the last three days. My students (your children!!!) were amazing. I hope you remember my telling you back at September’s Open House, that you would be blown away by…
A Watched Pot Never Boils
You can tell I’m just as excited as my students, as I came running down the stairs this morning to see the ClustrMap update — and here it is…. We are on-target to reach our goal – but it’s not…
Wax Museum Schoodle
So, today I whipped out my whiteboard pen again and set to work…. My goal was to explain as many of the details surrounding our upcoming Wax Museum as I could in a doodle. And just now? I’ve decided, in…
Life in Colony 309
Today, Mrs. Brooks was not in. In her place instead was her “Excellency” – Queen Suzy. She welcomed us at the door this morning, giving each student the opportunity to choose a job. It wasn’t long before the morning got…
Are Geometry & Art Connected?
To wrap up our geometry unit – we enjoyed some extension activities. In the morning, students spent time watching Jeff Panther’s video entitled Patterns. While watching, they jotted down notes about topics having to do with geometry and art. When…