Yes, I am still alive! :) Thanks for the emails and get well wishes. The bug finally hit my house. So far, just my daughter Hayden and I were brought down. We are thankful it only lasted a couple of days. However, I don't think either of us were very alive those couple of days. I can't tell you the last time I slept that much and ate so little! :)
Hope all the kids enjoyed their snow day
and all the parents had safe travels over the last crazy week of weather. There are a lot
of announcements this week, as I am now trying to play catch up a little. Please take a look at the information below
and mark your calendars.
*Book Orders due (2/12/12)! They are ready to go and will be sent home on Monday.
*Early dismissal Wednesday, February 6th.
*Social Studies test next Monday, February 11th. Study guide will go home on Wednesday, February 6th. I will let you know if that changes and post a completed copy on the blog.
*No School Friday, February 15th.
Math- Last week, students had a place value review on Thursday for the 100th day of school. On the other days they continued working with fractions. At the beginning of the week we discussed fractions as parts of a whole and as a group of objects. The class caught on to these very quickly! :) On Friday, they talked about if you were sharing among several friends, how would you divide things up to make a fraction. We will do a review with this on Monday and continue working with this concept next week.
Reading-
This week we did not have a story as we are taking a short break to make sure everyone has time to work on animal research projects since we have students in and out of our room all morning. With me being gone this was put on hold and we will pick right back up where we left off on Monday. This will also be helpful to members of our class who were sick and need some time to catch up. While I was gone, the class discuss and had a lot of practice with inference skills. We will be hitting this skill very hard in the upcoming weeks as it is one a lot of 3rd graders struggle with. We will continue reviewing other comprehension concepts as well, but focus on inference skills for a while.
Writing- This
week we continued to study the rain forest and discuss our animal reports.
The kids are so interested in this topic that we have just kind of taken it and
ran with it. Next week we will spend a lot of time collecting information for
our animal reports and other animals of the rainforest.
We will be working on rainforest based topics during writing for the next month or so. :) I collect a bunch of new resources today, and we will be off and running for this long project again on Monday! I can't wait for you to see what they will have completed at student led conferences in March!
Social Studies-
Students worked on inference, main idea and supporting details, as well as context clues while reading two of the three National Geographic stories this week. They were titled "Fancy Feathers" and "Eureka". We will move back to our atlas. Here is what I have planned for the week:
-Monday: Australia
-Tuesday: Antarctica
-Wednesday: Study Guide
-Thursday: Map review (will need to know all 7 continents, 5 oceans and be able to label their locations on a map)
-Friday: Map and atlas detail review
*Please make sure you take the time to review the study guide with your student. The study guides have all the answers to our test, possibly worded a different way, but the same concepts are covered. This will be very important with the map portion of our assessment.
Have a great week and STAY WARM & HEALTHY!
Mrs. Jodie YuskaValentines: We have 25 students in the class. As always, valentines are your choice to send to school. If you do choose to send valentines, please make sure you have one for each child. THANK YOU!
Avrien, Dylan, Drake, Brylea, Declan, Keenan, Brayden, Julian G., Austin, Alyssa, Sidney, Colin, Shelby, Aubry, Patience, Julian A., Maggie, Allison, Elise, Emily, Zander, Katie, Ray, Joy, and Tyler
Adults in the room (optional): Mrs. Yuska, Deb (associate) , and Karla (associate)
