September 1, 2015

See you tomorrow at 3:30 for supply drop off!

August 2015

Welcome to Mrs. Leach's 3rd Grade Blog! This blog will be updated weekly with an overview of curriculum, photos of classroom activities and upcoming events. I am so excited for the upcoming school year. I hope you are too! Third grade is a wonderful year. You will be learning about the solar system and going into Starlab, you will learn multiplication and division, you will read wonderful new books and write a variety of interesting writing pieces, you will learn about countries around the world and you will grow plants and learn about electricity! I can't wait to get started! Please make sure to drop off your supplies on supply drop off day on September 2nd or bring them the first day. See you in a couple of weeks!

June 19, 2015

Thanks for a great year and for the thoughtful gifts!!! Have a great summer!

June 15th-June 19th

We had another busy week. We enjoyed the Flag Day Assembly on Friday afternoon and we celebrated Caleb's birthday! The kids did a great job using sign language as they sang America, the Beautiful in front of the school!

Upcoming Events:

June 19th **3rd Grade Learning Fair and Picnic 11:30-12:30** This event will start in the classroom, where students will share some work we've been doing. We will then move outside to the picnic table area to have a picnic lunch! Please bring a dessert to share! We will be sending home many items this day so you may want to bring a bag to carry home supplies!

June 23rd-Field Day

June 24th-Half day/last day of school

June 8th-June 12th

We had a very busy week! The field trip to Pine Hollow Arboretum was a lot of fun. We also enjoyed a visit from local author, Colleen Paratore.

Pine Hollow Arboretum

Colleen Paratore Visit

This week...

**This be the last week of spelling and reading logs for the year.

Reading and Writing

We will be drafting our persuasive speeches this week. We are also working on "compliment cards". Each student make a card for every member of the class and they will each receive a book of cards at the end of the year. They are really doing a nice job with this! 

Math

We are continuing to work in groups to review the main topics of the year.

Science/Social Studies

In science, we will continue the electricity unit. In social studies, we will finish up Brazil and start a short unit on China. We will also be learning about Flag Day in preparation for Friday's Flag Day Assembly. 

June 1st-June 5th

It's so hard to believe that it's June! It has been such a great year with your children. We have many fun events coming up!

June 2nd-Field trip to Pine Hills Arboretum
June 3rd-Author's Visit with Colleen Paratore
June 19th-3rd Grade Learning Fair and Picnic 11:30-12:30
June 23rd-Field Day

This week...

Reading and Writing
We are reading Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White for read aloud and the kids are really enjoying this story about a trumpeter swan who cannot make a sound. I am working on my final reading assessments and I am so proud of the progress the class has made in reading! We are working on persuasive writing and students are gathering more evidence to back up their opinions.

Math

We are continuing the review unit. Students are working in groups to review a variety of topics such as regrouping, place value, multiplication, division, fractions, time, money, and geometry.

Science/Social Studies

We are continuing the electricity unit in science and the Brazil unit in social studies. 

May 18th-May 22nd

We have had a busy couple of weeks! We had a great time on our field trip to the planetarium and are looking forward to the next field trip on June 2nd. I am still waiting on a few permissions slips, so please send this in if you have not already done so. As far as chaperones, I am trying to give first choice to people who did not get to join us on the last field trip, then I will go from the group of people who have volunteered to go again. If you would like to chaperone on June 2nd, please send this back by Monday.

This week...

Reading and Writing
In reading, we finished up a fun mystery unit. The students did a great job with their mystery book groups.We will be working on a biography unit this week. In writing, we are working on the persuasive unit. Students will be choosing "seed ideas" this week for their final persuasive speech. They are having a great time with this!

Math
In math, we are going to be doing a review unit over the next few weeks. Students will be working at stations to review major topics of the year including-addition and subtraction with regrouping, place value and rounding, fractions, multiplication, division and word problems. Please make sure your child is continuing to practice each night on xtramath. It is so important to be strong in their facts for fourth grade.

Science/Social Studies
In science, we are continuing the electricity unit. The class is really enjoying the experiments! Check out the pictures below! In social studies, we are learning about Brazil. The students are also really enjoying the Junior Achievement lessons with Mr. Neal! They are learning all about business and money and having fun with it. Thanks Mr. Neal!