Next Class Blog
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Class Superlatives
Mrs. Shaffer, Ms. Symons, Mrs. Rossignol & Mrs. Phillips' Class Superlatives 2014 on PhotoPeach
Thursday, May 22, 2014
MOSH
On Tuesday, we were able to take a field trip to MOSH. We explored the museum and visited all the exhibits, visited the planetarium, and had lunch by the Friendship Fountain. What a fun day!
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Let's Sing, America!
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, May 27th at 6:00 pm. We will be performing our musical called Let's Sing, America! Students have been working hard all year in music class to learn the songs for this performance. This week, students began learning the movement for each song and were assigned lines to recite during the performance. Students will be required to memorize their lines and recite them with expression as part of their speaking standards. Students will be required to wear jean bottoms (shorts, pants, skirt) and a plain white or red topic (no logos or graphics). Students may also wear any patriotic accessories (red, white and blue) that they would like. A letter with this information will be coming home in next week's Tuesday Folder.
Students: What song is YOUR favorite?
Monday, May 5, 2014
Operation: Egg Drop
Can you design a package that keeps an egg from breaking when we drop it from the 2nd floor of the school? We challenged our students with creating a container to protect a raw egg from the drop. They came up with some amazing ideas!!!!
The final tally was 17 eggs did not break, while 14 eggs did break.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
Character Education
Today, we started a new character education tradition for our classroom family. We choose one of our students and she stood in front of the white board and everyone in our class wrote something nice about her.
Here is what our class said - we certainly agree!
Always nice to others
Here is what our class said - we certainly agree!
Always nice to others
Always positive
Sweetest girl in CCE
Astonishing kindness
Always positive – never gives up
Stops bullying
A nice friend in the whole school
Always sweet and kind to others
Never mean
Queen of the world
Let’s everyone play
Helpful
Fair to others
Always has something good to say
Best girl in the world
Kind
Polite and helpful
Helps others and is kind and sweet
Very good role model
Kind heart and sweet girl
Nice friend to everyone
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Salt in His Shoes
This week we are reading books with common themes to help motivate us for the big FCAT! Today we read Salt in His Shoes, a story about a young Michael Jordan, who is smaller than the other players, learns that
determination and hard work are more important than size when playing
the game of basketball.We know that our hard work throughout this school year will help us be successful on the test!We are ready to ROCK the FCAT!
Friday, March 28, 2014
Using Mentor Texts to Create Powerful Introductions
Today we researched mentor texts and specifically looked at the introductions these authors wrote. We read the introductions with an extra powerful lens to notice how they were written. We then discussed what kinds of things the authors did to create their powerful introductions. We learned many new ways to write engaging introductions for our informational books and chapters as well!
Friday, March 14, 2014
Lucky Charms Fractions and Graphing
In honor of St.Patrick's Day, we used Lucky Charms to sort out the marshmallows and make fractions and a bar graph out of them. The denominator was the total amount of marshmallows each student had and the numerator was the number of each different marshmallows they had. We then compared our graphs.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Teaching like an Expert
Today we began our writing on information books. We learned that information writers are teachers. When you write an information book, you are teaching about your topic. Today, students got to teach their peers about their topic that they are an expert on. We learned some really interesting and neat things about each others' topics!
Monday, February 24, 2014
Attitude Spray
Have you heard about our Attitude Spray?? It is a special secret "potion" that only students who believe will receive! We use this "potion" to help us have a good attitude before we take our tests. We learned that attitude is everything and if you have a good attitude before your test, you will work harder and try your best on the test!! Ask your child if they chose to receive this "potion" before their reading test today. :)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Fraction Frenzy!
In math, we have started a new unit all about fractions. Students are sharpening their skills every day about this new and exciting concept. Here are some of the charts that we have made so far based on the work we have done.
Using an inequality sign (<,>, or =) compare the following fractions: 5/8 and 2/4. Leave a comment with your answer!
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Readers to Leaders: BINGO
Today, we celebrated together as a 3rd grade for those students who met the 2nd quarter reading goal. We played Wild Bingo!!!
Monday, February 3, 2014
Friday, January 31, 2014
High Interest Nonfiction Books
This week we will continue our study of nonfiction. We are really enjoying reading our nonfiction texts. Unfortunately, we don’t have a large amount of high interest nonfiction books in our class library. We are asking for any nonfiction book donations to keep our students engaged. We have found that students really enjoy these DK Readers. They are high interest nonfiction books with lively illustrations and engaging age-appropriate stories. We really appreciate any donation! :)
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Hard Work Pays Off
Today, our school got a visit from Adrian Peterson, Georgia Southern alum and former running back for the Chicago Bears.
He came to share his message with us to strive to meet our goals. We were able to hear his amazing story with a great message that includes his family and parents, hard work, and how a very difficult speech disability only motivated him to fight harder to reach his goals in life.
His book, "Don't Dis My Abilities" is inspiring and full of hope.
Synthesizing
Today we learned about synthesizing-when our thinking changes as we read. We read Animal Dads and students were shown the process of synthesizing with this nonfiction text. We first previewed the book by looking at the title and picture on the cover to predict what the book was about. As we read a few pages, our understanding deepened which caused our thinking to change some. We used examples from the text to support our thinking. Students then read through their nonfiction books to put together their new learning about their topic.
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