I just want to start off by saying THANK YOU for all the donated materials that have been coming in. It is so helpful to have all these donations and we all appreciate your generosity!

Third graders have been working hard here in Room 165! Students have been reading their books like they are GOLD. We have no curmudgeons here in 3rd grade! :) We even treat our reading partners like GOLD as we share our stories with one another. We also spent some time discussing what makes a book too easy, too challenging and JUST RIGHT! Readers have been shopping and filling their bins with "Just Right" books. Each day we are building our stamina to become STRONGER readers! We are absolutely loving the BFG as we participate in the Global Read Aloud!

We have spent a lot of time this week working with Problem Strings and learning new strategies. Students have had so much fun working through these strategies and then sharing their work with classmates. We have some super efficient mathematicians in here! We also have spent some time discussing a very important 3rd-grade skill- the EQUAL sign! Students are beginning to learn and understand what the equal sign represents in an equation. We are loving our new October Number Corner which focuses on geometric shapes. Today we started collecting milliliters and liters in our calendar collector! So much fun in math! 

Writing has taken off! We are getting ready to choose our SEED idea to grow and publish. Students will simply choose an idea or a story from their Writer's Notebook and we will spend the next few weeks "fancying" up our writing as we learn new strategies. 

Our little social scientists have begun to think about Ellington! We have generated some questions using the QFT (Question Formulation Technique) as we studied the Town Seal. So interesting! Do you know what town seal looks like? We are very excited to learn more about Ellington. 

Have a HAPPY long weekend!