Happy Holidays

May you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Be safe in your travels and I look forward to seeing everyone back next year (ahh, that never gets old in elementary school).

When we return, it will be back to the normal routine with reading, spelling, and math. We'll be reading Centerfield Ballhawk and using the spelling list that accompanies it. We will also begin Unit 6 in math which is jumping back into geometry with line segments, triangles, quadrangles, and 3-D shapes.

November Top Readers

Wow! 12,135 minutes of reading was accomplished at home by my 3rd graders in the month of November. Over half the class earned their Pizza Hut "Book It" certificate today-another fantastic accomplishment! My hope is to get all the students meeting the goal of 300 minutes so that I can hand out 26 certificates next month!
The top 3 readers for the month of November all read over 1,000 minutes and they were:
1. Emily Fletcher 1,262
2. Garrett Vail 1,056
3. McKinley Brooks 1,035

Great job readers!

Special Guest

Our time with Officer Crowe was very interesting. In addition to learning about what he does and everything he needs to do his job everyday, we got to meet his partner Zarro. It was exciting to see his parnter "in action" searching for the planted items. Then, as a reward, he got to play with his tennis ball. What a great learning opportunity for us!

Squanto Book Reports

I am so proud of the effort our 3rd graders put into their book reports. We were taking a big step from the writings we've done so far, from 1 paragraph to 4 paragraphs. While we wrote some of the report together, I expected the students to complete the other parts and they did just that! Thanks for your efforts at home if your child didn't get it finished at school. These guys have grown a lot in such a short time.