Monday, February 12, 2018

Think of this title.

This week’s bloggers of the week are:
Gracie and Ayah!!



This week in Math: We played “Beat the calculator” and worked on our
Fact Power. We also learned multiplication and division strategies.
We reviewed our work sheet and used our extra math app on our iPads too.

In Writing: We each worked on book reviews and exercises on persuasive
writings which was about trying to persuade Miss Frame to have a Binga’s,
pizza and movie party! We also wrote our book review in our writers
notebook and recorded on our Seesaw.

In Reading: We changed our reading groups and learned about
biography books. Miss Frame read biography books about Martin Luther
King (Martin’s Big Words), Rachel Carson and Houdini. We also did some
silent reading. Ms.Wetmore’s class came in for a Read Aloud too.

In Social Studies: We did The United States crossword puzzles, colored
The US map and worked on our Maine packet/template.


Other/Announcements: We all enjoyed Mystery Skype on Friday!!
(We ended up Skyping with students in Texas.)

Wednesday was a half day due to snow.

Friday, February 2, 2018

Go Patriots!

This week’s bloggers of the week are:
Avi, Barbara and Hagen!




This week in math: We played baseball multiplication. We also
started unit 6. We reviewed trading subtraction.


In writing: We started a new project, which was about Maine.


In reading: We finished our nonfiction packets about elephants.
We started learning and reading a little bit about poetry.


In social studies: We learned about longitude and latitude.
We finally had our presentation of our country project “Tour Of The
World!” Thank you for coming to see it!


Other/Announcements: Today was Bohdi’s birthday (Mr. Abbott’s class)
and his sister came in to teach us about China.



We had wacky socks day last Friday and Spirit day today!
The Superbowl is this weekend.

Go Pats!

Friday, January 26, 2018

Enjoy your weekend!

This week’s bloggers of the week are…
Lucy and Garrett!


This week in Math: We learned multiples of 3s and 4s. We also reviewed for
our test by playing ZAP! (a jeopardy game.)


In Writing: We continued to work on our slideshows about our country
project. We also did “My Teacher Is Missing” creative writing on
the day Miss Frame was out.

In Reading: We read the book called “The Little Ship” which was
a narrative non-fiction. We also finished our nonfiction unit
and look a test about polar bears and penguins.

In Science/Social studies: We worked on our continent
activity on Seesaw.


Other/Announcements:

Country Projects are due: Monday, January 29th

Our Tour of the World Celebration will be on: Thursday, February 1st.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

This Week's News Report!

This week’s bloggers of the week are:
Annaliese and Wilder!




In Math: We are learning a new unit about fractions. We learned about
equivalent fractions. We have also been practicing our multiplication facts!


In Writing and Social Studies: We have been researching our countries.
We each made slideshows about our country project on our iPads.


In reading: We learned about pop out sentences and we also learned
about elephants. We are practicing reading non-fiction.


Other/Announcements: We had a guest (Matt Hoidal) in class on
Friday and learned about “World Of Change.” We each were given a
pouch that can hold change (money) and we can choose which of 6 jars
(housing, food, health, financial literacy, childhood literacy and play) we
want to put the change into.



Country Projects are due: Monday, January 29th
Our Tour of the World Celebration will be on: Thursday, February 1st

Friday, December 15, 2017

December 15th!

This week’s bloggers of the week are Tyler and Alyosha!




In Math: We learned about perimeter and area.
For example,
P (perimeter)= The length of the outside of a shape,
A (area)= The square unit of the inside of a shape.


In Writing: We did a writing prompt to see how much we’ve learned
so far this year. We also made a mini project called “Best Part Of Me”
and took a picture of the favorite part of our body.




In Reading: We are finding the main idea and details when reading
nonfiction. An article we read was called
“Weird But Wonderful Octopuses.”


Social studies: We started working on our country project at home.
We each have chosen a different country to study on and we will have
a presentation in February. We also started a packet called
“Where In The World Is Yarmouth?”


Other/Announcement: We went rock climbing at the high school
on Wednesday. We each climbed about 8-10 times with the help
of 4 high school students and a coach.
Check out the rock climbing video!!





We also watched the winter concert at the gym on Friday.

Thank you to those who have donated for our third grade holiday rotations!
Please bring in donations by Monday.

Friday, December 8, 2017

Super Girls!

This week's bloggers of the week are... Eliza and Zofia!

In math: We measured a lot of objects with rulers. We also learned about the names of shapes, such as quadrilaterals and nonagons. 

In writing: We finished writing our mini-expert books.

In reading: we are reading books about countries so we can choose our top 3 countries for our future project. We are also continuing to read "The One and Only Ivan" as a chapter book. 

Social Studies: We browsed through different countries each day so that we can make a decision on which country to work on for our future project. 

Other/Announcement: We have been working on cursive handwriting. We also have been working on our Words Their Way sorts. 

Friday, December 1, 2017

December 1st!

This week’s bloggers of the week are...
Emma and Jack!

In math: We learned the commutative property of multiplication. (Example 2x4=4x2)

In writing: We started our nonfiction writing unit. We are working on mini expert books.

In reading: We read lots of nonfiction books and articles.

In social studies: We learned about Pangaea (all of the continents together.) Next week, we are starting our big country project.

Other/Announcement: We have a new friend in class from this week. Welcome to room 102 Hagen!!

We also had a community meeting about kindness and donating to the Yarmouth food pantry.

Thank you, Mrs. Leeder, for helping us with this blog post!