Good morning everyone. It is hard to believe that it is the last day of January. It is zero degrees up here on the Mud Hill.
Our class meeting on Friday was awesome. I love it when the kids are all together. We do have a lot of fun and we get so much accomplished. There is snow in the forecast for this week and it may be a remote day on Tuesday. if that happens, we will have a morning meeting for reading, and an afternoon meeting for math. I will let you know the times the night before or the morning of. We have completed our Aimsweb assessmnets for the winter. The kids made some nice gains even though they are only in school two days a week. We will take them again in the spring. We finished our valentine birds for the ceiling and the room is all decorated for Valentine's Day. We will have our parties on Wednesdat the 10th and Thursday the 11th. I will be treating the kids to ice cream sundaes. They all liked that idea. The kids may make their valentines at home. I will send home a class list on Monday and Tuesday. Please have the kids make a decorative box or bag or any container at home to bring in for their own valentines. If anyone needs paper, just have the kids ask and I will send it home. The kids usually like to get creative with their boxes. For reading Wonders this week, we will tackle Unit 4 week 1. The genre is non fiction. The spelling words are listed on the spelling page. We will have our test on Friday morning in zoom class. In math, we continue to work on polygons, area, perimeter and measurement. Please have the kids keep studying their 3's, 4's, and 5's tables. We enjoy a minute of fast math everyday. In science this week, we will be constructing houses out of paper and then we will see how they stand up to a windstorm. If the first house doesn't stand, we get to play engineers and go back to the drawing board and improve the second one. This is a fun activity. It is time to start thinking about the presidents. This is a huge unit in Mr. Mud's third grade. I will introduce the presidents this week. The kids will pick a president of their interest and research them and write a speech. We will have our own books and tons of resources in class. Most of the work will be done in class. I will scale it back a little because it will be impossible to cover the whole unit with the kids only coming to school two days a week. This is a really fun unit. it is actually a mini history course. The kids will learn so much. You will be amazed! They may research all they want at home. We continue to enjoy our read aloud series.."Sideways Stories from Wayside School". There are four books in the series. The kids continue to do a great job. Please have them bring back their spelling tests on Monday and Tuesday. Have a great rest of the weekend everyone. No NFL football today, only the Hula Bowl with college teams. Stay warm, safe and healthy. Keep up the good work. Comments are closed.
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