November 22 -23

Week 14

Multiplication Boot Camp

Multiplication Boot Camp is in full swing and the kids absolutely love every minute of it! The purpose of the boot camp is to help the kids with the their multiplication facts fluency in a fun way. Now that they all have a concrete understanding of the concept of multiplication, it’s time to work on the fluency of it. Each child has their own necklace, which will house their dog tags. These tags will represent the multiplication facts that they have mastered (1 – 10). Each drill is set at each child’s individual pace; this allows them to advance to the next drill on their own time. We’ll be using multiplication Boot Camp from now until the end of the year. Hopefully each child will have 10 dog tags to represent the drills they’ve passed =)!!

Expert Projects

WOW, wow, wow! These projects were fantastic!! As I mentioned earlier in the year, each month the kids will be responsible for conducting research, housing notes, and creating a presentation for something that their interested in. This can range from food to celebrities to gadgets to holidays or anything else of interest. Although the end of the month isn’t until tomorrow, most of the kids were done with their expert projects on Tuesday. We spent a portion of our day presenting these expert projects and they were AMAZING! The kids used many different mediums to present their projects; from posters, to Google Slides, to videos to Google Docs! I was amazed and very proud to watch their hard work be displayed and also to watch them confidently go up and show the class what they had learned! I hope that next time we will be able to present some of our expert projects to our families!

Family Feast

The family feast was a real treat! It was heartwarming to see so many families attend and to help serve food. The kids were excited to be able to eat some delicious food with the people they love most! Thank you to all of you who donated and volunteered for dinner. We couldn’t have done it with without you!

November 16 - 20

Week 13

Food Chains

We’ve been diving into the lives of animals lately! We’ve discussed how animals can be categorized by how they get their energy and also by what they eat. Each our kids were assigned an animal that is easily found in South Carolina. They have been working all week to learn about their animal and to create a food chain to display where their animal fall on this food chain. I’m excited to see what the kids start noticing as we present our food chains next week and also as the food chains start overlapping!

Teacher Appreciation week

This week we celebrated the idea of learning and the freedom to receive an education. We talked about what and who we were thankful for in our educational lives. The school assigned each day as a fun dress up day to show appreciation for those in the education business. I was able to grab a few pictures of the kids and myself in our suspenders.

Math

We’ve been working with math to discuss different things and way to measure things. We’ve discussed how solids and liquid have to be measured using different units and also how we can measure time. We’ve spent the majority our week mucking around with different instruments to measure and also we’re still practicing time so that we can on day master it!

Native Americans

We finished our “official” Native American unit 2 weeks ago, but we’ve still been discussing them in class because the kids are so intrigued with them. They’ve been working on creating their own folk tales, myths, and legends. They presented these on Friday and I was BLOWN AWAY!! They were so fantastic! Perhaps we can present these again this coming week to the parents who are able to attend our family feast!

Special visitor

On Friday we had a very special visitor. One who we haven’t seen since last year! Zaria’s grandmother came to spend half of the day with us! She is so wonderful with the kids and they love seeing her! They each wanted to sit with her, talk with her, and ask her a million questions (I’m sure)! She brought some snacks for the kids (as if she hadn’t already won them over). We really enjoyed her visit and hope that she’s able to come back to visit soon! =)

Please remember that our 3^rd grade family feast will be this Tuesday at 12:30. If you can, please be there by 11:50! We are looking forward to having all of the families there! =)