March 6

I hope everyone had a good weekend.  I especially love Mondays because I get to hear so many interesting stories about the things the kids did on the weekend.

This morning we learned a new letter in handwriting.  We are now practicing the letter g.  We are able to connect a,d and g to write some nonsense words.  Please practice these letters at home.

Today we had some changes to our lunch room.  All grade 3s are now eating at lunch tables in the hub.  Here's how this works.  When the kids come in from playing outside, they go to the hub, find the pocket chart with all of our class pictures on it.  Each student turns over their card and this shows the lunchroom supervisors that they are present.  Milk is being handed out by the little window right before going into the harmony wing.

This afternoon we worked with our grade 1/2 buddies.  We taught them a game where you roll 2 dice together, add those numbers and then double.  Caitlynn just informed me that this game is called Froggy Facts.  If one of the grade 3s was paired with a grade 1, they only used one die, rolled it and then doubled.

In math we also worked on extending growing patterns on grid paper.

Our speeches are coming along quite nicely.  We hope to be finished by the end of this week.  We will then be moving on to an art project and a science unit on building things.

I am still looking for a few parent volunteers for swimming.  Any dads or grandpas who are able to help us out?

Have a wonderful evening.