Welcome to our 3rd grade website!!
February Happenings:
3rd: Wow! We are finally back from our Snow Days!! I hope everyone was able to take advantage of the unusual amount of snowfall for our area!
This week we are finishing our study of the geography of Ancient Greece and beginning the Art and Architecture portion. The enduring question is How does the geographic location affect the structures of a civilization?
We have begun our study of ancient Greece! We have begun learning about the geography of ancient Greece and how it impacted all aspects of their lives. I think that I may hear the faint theme music from Indiana Jones as we begin Greek art and architecture!
The Greco-Roman feast will be held Friday, February 19th. I will be sending home more information either by email or paper concerning the schedule and volunteer/donation opportunities.
February Birthdays:
Clay - 1
Katelyn T. - 7
Noah - 8
Jordan - 19
January Happenings:
6th: Happy Birthday to MacKellar!
We have completed Unit 5 in Math and are moving on to Unit 6.
We have finished our study of Explorers.
They completed a simulation where each group were given a packet of resources and the group had to determine who would be the leader and explorer. Then the group were tasked to develop their own country (flag, money, religion etc.). The children quickly learned that the explorer would have to go and trade for needed resources in order to complete the task.
Next the children broke into groups and learned about a explorer so as to become experts. Then the groups presented their information to the rest of the class.
The children did a nice job of searching for the most important facts, collaborating and organizing their presentations!
The last week of January we are set to begin our immersion into ancient Greek and Roman civilizations! Let the "games" begin!!
Happy New Year!
Congratulations to Katelyn T. for being chosen our December Student of the Month for Kindness.
This month we are beginning our Social Studies unit on Explorers!
We will have a day were students will be inventing their own country in groups.
We will be researching different explorers as well.
We are continuing Unit 5 in Math and we just had our first Continental Math League Meet on Thursday, January 8th.
Language Arts: Finishing our study of The Gadget Wars, word study and various writing activities.
Happy December!
Happy Birthday to Katelyn M. on the 30th!
We had a very busy month.
Science: Simple Machines Lab
Thank you to all of the parent volunteers. We could not have done this without your help!
We also had an investigation with materials to see what we could discover about simple machines.
We took 3 days to visit other classrooms to learn and explore about Matter.
Social Studies: Finishing Economics.
We finished up the month with a Winter Celebration before we left for Winter Break. Thanks again to parent volunteers for donations and providing great activities during our celebration.
Happy November!!
Congratulations to Jordan for being chosen our Student of the Month for Diligence!
November 22, 2009
Wow! It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is THIS Thursday!! We have finished Unit 3 in Math and are beginning Unit 4 this week. We are currently finishing Cycles in Science and have begun Economics in Social Studies. On Monday, we will begin our Science unit on Simple Machines and we will have our Lab day on Wednesday, December 2. Thank you to those parents who have already volunteered to help out that day!
Report Cards came home today!! Congratulations to all of my students for all of their hard work during the first grading period!!
I hope everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving!!
November 16, 2009
Welcome Back! I hope everyone dried out from our Noreaster last week! Tuesday, November 17 is our PTA program Heroes All. Due to the unexpected days off a letter is coming home with your student today. This is in addition to the email that I sent out several weeks ago.
November 12, 2009
I hope that everyone had a restful Veteran's day and that you are high and dry.
Ironically we were suppose to start our study of the tides in conjunction with the Moon. Just watch and learn children!!!
Perhaps I will see everyone tomorrow!!
November 9, 2009
Wow! What incredible weather we are having!! I hope everyone is getting a chance to enjoy it, while it lasts!!
Last week, we continued to observe the growth of our Mealworms in their 3 different habitats.
We had a great time sharing our animal/plant cycle with our different
groups. We are thinking like Scientists!!
This week we will be learning about moon, tide and seasonal cycles. Be on the lookout for the Science textbook to be coming home!!
Wednesday is Veteran's Day so there will be no school for everyone!
Tuesday will be starting our city-wide assessments in Math and Science. We will be using the laptops to take our tests and the kids are excited!
We will be finishing up Unit 3 in Math this week.
We will have our Word Study test this Friday for the words received last Monday, the 2nd.
Have a great week!
November 1, 2009
I hope everyone remembered to move their clocks back one hour!!
It is hard to believe that it is November already!!
Last week was very busy in our classroom!
We started our Cycles unit in Science and set up our Mealworm experiment in the lab on Friday. We also had a great time measuring, counting lines and seeds and finding out if our pumpkins would float on Friday!! 2 out of 3 did and I think if I had a bigger sink, the 3rd would have as well!
Conferences begin this week! I love forward to talking with everyone about your wonderful children.
NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS
Ian: 7th
October 22, 2009
Wow what a busy couple of weeks! We have finished our Social Studies unit about Communities. We will begin our Cycle unit in Science tomorrow. On Monday, we will also begin Unit 3 in Math.
School pictures are tomorrow!!
Tomorrow is Friday so I hope that everyone has a great weekend and gets a chance to get out and enjoy all of the wonderful fall activities that Virginia Beach has to offer!!
October 12, 2009
BIRTHDAYS IN OCTOBER:
12TH: Hope Berns
23rd: Christopher Fletcher
HAPPY FALL!!! October 5, 2009
Congratulations to Ruby for being chosen as our Citizen of the Month showing Responsibility!!
*A student gallery page will be coming soon! It will be password protected. Once I have some pictures to upload, I will email the password! Our class photographer took pictures of your student's Pencil holder creations so I will post them soon! The Play-doh was put to good use!! *Best laid plans go awry!! :) Our gallery is currently NOT password protected however it only has pictures of the creations without the students. Enjoy!
VB Schools Grading Scale
A 94-100
B 86-93
C 85-78
D 77-70
E 69 & below