Things are starting to settle in for Room 17. We are getting our procedures down, expectations are understood, missions are set! This week we will be setting our SMART goals for this 9 weeks. We set one for reading, one or math, and one personal goal. We keep them in our leadership notebooks. This year, we will do student-led conferences. I'll be sending home info on this when it gets closer to conference time.
In reading, we will focus on character, setting, and plot with several stories and books. We continue to read Gooney Bird Green and work on our narratives. We will finish up our unit on place value in math, and start to explore maps skills in social studies. We have a new science series this year...hopefully we will start our unit on life cycles/animals this week as well.
I plan on sending home math homework this week. For awhile, on Mondays I will send home a worksheet that reviews basic skills that third graders should know this year. We start off with only completing part of it(the ones that are circled). They have all week to complete it! We check it on Fridays together. Kiddos should still keep on reading and completing the reading log every night also.
Students are working together as a team toward a classroom teamwork reward. Every time we work as a team( all students are here, all students have homework, someone gives us a compliment, we rock an activity, we use the 7 habits like a champ!) I pull a number and color in our teamwork chart. When we get 10 in a row, we have decided that our reward will be pizza and free computer time! Can't wait!
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