Students are observing and classifying two-dimensional shapes by their attributes. Students will be learning the names of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional figures. Students are continuing to work hard by publishing their ABC books.
Students are observing and classifying two-dimensional shapes by their attributes. Students will be learning the names of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional figures. Students are continuing to work hard by publishing their ABC books.
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Students are observing and classifying two-dimensional shapes by their attributes. Students will be learning the names of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional figures. Students are continuing to work hard by publishing their ABC books.
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Lifeskill or Life-long Guideline of the week: Resourcefulness
Math Students are continuing to work hard by publishing 2nd – Students are observing and classifying two-dimensional their ABC books. We have a wide range of topics from animals shapes by their attributes this week. We will be doing many to elements of the periodic table! We will have a gallery walk interactive choices with pattern blocks and Geoblocks. when we are complete to read all of our published ABC books Students will be learning the names of both two-dimensional at the end of this week. and three-dimensional figures. We will discuss the appropriate way to describe these using their attributes. We learned a fun Important Notes & Dates game called Guess My Rule that we will play over the next two *Thank you, thank you for all the appreciations and weeks. compliments we received last week. We loved every Remember to have students study their Mad Minute chocolate, sweet note and small treasure that you gave us so facts for 5 MINUTES each night. Quizzes are on Wednesday generously. Thank you so much, it is wonderful to feel so and Friday. appreciated! 3rd - This week we are continuing to learn how to multiply two- digit numbers by one-digit numbers. We will also be learning A special thank you to parents who long division. Don’t forget, multiplication mad minutes are took time out of their day to watch the continuing every Wednesday and Friday. Please help your class while we had our lunch out! We child study for at least 5 minutes each night. This becomes ate at Sago in the Triangle with other even more and more important as we move into double teachers who had the same lunch day digit multiplication and your child moves into 4th grade. as us! We completed our lunch out Please help them be successful by encouraging them and with a delicious coffee. helping them study. *Track and Field Day: This Friday! Don’t forget class shirt, tennis shoes with socks, and a water bottle! Students will be outside for almost a whole hour, please wear shorts so that you can stay cool. A long, long time ago This week we are reading Native American Folktales. *We had a wonderful final field trip yesterday to The University We are distinguishing whether or not these tales are myths or of Texas. We visited RLM and discussed the characteristics of legends and supporting of choice with evidence from the text. the sun. We also viewed a live picture of the sun through the Ask your child what the difference between the two is. Each of heliostat and visited the roof of the RLM, these tales focuses on telling a story using the stars. Students 17 floors up, and saw the view of campus. will be working on visualizing the story this week by working on We looked at the telescope that hosts star an artistic response to each story using star stickers as it parties on Wednesdays during the relates to the story. summer. We then had a nice lunch on the East Mall near the statue of Dr. Martin To Infinity…and Beyond!! Luther King, Jr. Our final stop was a visit This week we are beginning to study our solar system to Battle Hall hosted by Harrison’s parents, closely. We begin with a look at the sun, the star at the center Greg and Beth, who spoke to us about the of our solar system. We will be reading about one planet each architecture of the UT Tower. We got to day and recording defining see the reading room in the first library of UT as well as characteristics, facts about the weather enormous sketches used to construct the tower. A very special and atmosphere and dates of discovery thank you to our personal tour guides, Beth and Greg! and exploration. Check out www.kidsastronomy.com for some fun Check out http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ for live interactive solar system activities and pictures of the sun from SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric information! Observatory) and other amazing information!
*Please see our End of Year Activity Sheet in this week’s
Wednesday folder. It is printed on yellow paper and outlines Please check the Calendar Weekly! the fun activities your child will participate in! http://mahlstadtsvrcek2-3class.wikispaces.com/Calendar