Hour of Code 2015

Today we joined thousands of classrooms and tens of millions of students in an Hour of Coding. The students successfully wrote their own lines of code in a Star Wars themed game. Check out Code.org for more information .

Google Classroom

Mrs. Henneberry's class taught us how to log into Google Classroom today. We are going to begin writing our All About information pieces as our first assignment . Stay tuned as we'll be using Google Classroom for so many different things this year.

3rd Grade Book Suggestions

During Conferences I spoke to a number of families about suggested books.  The link below will take you to a site that can give grade level suggestions as well as interest based suggestions.  Please let me know if you need additional help.


Book Suggestions

Mrs. Murray's Math Workshop Visit

Mrs. Murray taught a lesson on the Commutative Property of Multiplication today in our Math Worshop.

Plimoth Plantation

Math Workshop

Vocabulary Parade

Today was our 3rd Grade Vocabulary Parade. The students did a fabulous job looking up their new words and presenting them. Thank you to all who were able to attend .

Photos from the Google Hangout with Kate Messner

Google Hangout with Kate Messner

Today the 3rd graders at JFK celebrated the National Day on Writing with Author Kate Messner.  We took part in a Live Google Hangout.  Kate Messner talked to us about her writing process, which was VERY similar to the process that we go through when we are writing.  She gave examples of how she has worked through her own stories.  Kate is the author of the historical fiction series Ranger in Time. Kate answered questions from students from around the county. It was a fabulous experience.  We have learned a great deal that we plan to bring back to our own writing.  Most students commented that they would like to have their own Writer's Notebook to carry with them wherever they go, not just in school.  

As part of the planning for the broadcast we brainstormed ideas for future stories about a time traveling dog.  Our class came up with a number of creative and amazing story ideas, from the assassination  of JFK to the Blizzard of 1978!

Math Fact Practice

Here's a fabulous link to some Math Fact Practice games :
http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/addition-subtraction-games.html

On Line Math Learning Games

Parent/Teacher Conferences

Parent/Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, November 4th and 5th.  See the link below to sign up:
Sign Up Genius for Conferences

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C44ABAC2AABFD0-teacher

Lots Going on in Room 5

Sharing our personal narrative leads with our partners.

 Learning keyboarding skills on the Chromebooks 

Working with partners to generate words by adding base words to suffixes during a Fundations lesson.

Moon Phases Video

As part of our unit on the Solar System we have learned about the Phases of the Moon.  Below is a link to a great video describing why we see the moon differently each night throughout the month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCweccNOaqo

Len Cabral Visit

Today we enjoyed Len Cabral's fabulous storytelling as a reward for our summer reading. Thank you to the PCC for finding this great program. Our own John D. was called up to share one of his stories too!