Happy Friday! We have our first FULL week of school down. 🙂 We are beginning to follow a more typical schedule in 3rd grade. We have started our first math unit. This week we have been learning strategies to help us understand the multiplication of whole numbers. It is essentially the meaning behind multiplication and using various strategies to find the product.

In reading, we also started our first unit. We are generating goals to make reading the BEST it can be, determining what makes a book “just right”, and reading books like “gold” (using expression and enthusiasm). Today students may have brought home a book or two telling you that it is theirs to keep. They are right! Mrs. Peets allowed students to take from a book table today. Happy Reading!

Writer’s notebooks are due on Monday. I have asked students to decorate it so it is special to them. We have had some great examples already brought in. If you have any questions, please let me know. In writing this week, we worked on what makes up a sentence. In groups students categorized groups of words as “sentences” or “not sentences”. The we looked at what we call sentence fragments and run-on sentences. We ended the week with expanding basic sentences into detailed sentences.

In social studies, we touched on our study of Michigan. We looked at our textbooks we get to use in 3rd grade, and learned how Michigan is part of a country, continent, hemisphere, planet, and galaxy. We learned a song about the 7 continents and practiced “WOW” work in coloring the continents. (Within the lines, Outstanding detail and color, White spaces filled)

iPads: This week was about exploring our iPads and keeping safe while using the iPad. In STEM, Mrs. Kipling is talking about “eye and ear pollution” and what to do if you have this on your iPad. In class, we made a folder on our home screen of “Need Permission” apps. These are apps we would not generally use or that have access to the internet and settings. Today we focused on private information that we NEVER share in order to keep safe. Ask your child about this.

My plan is for iPads and chargers to go home Monday with any student who has their iPad agreement and insurance payment turned in. I will be sending a letter home Monday as well.

Dates:

Tuesday the 20th–6PM Watch Dog meeting in the cafeteria; 6PM JPO meeting as well

Thursday the 22nd–Picture day for 3rd graders–bring those smiles!

Sunday the 25th is the Jeffers Open House–I look forward to seeing you all there!

October 31st–Jeffers Halloween Jive (more info. to follow)