Virtual Open House

I wish I could have you in for Open House, but we must keep everyone safe. This year's open house is instead embedded on the blog. Here is some helpful information about our classroom. Also, please scroll through the blog for photos of the classroom and there is even a video look around. As always, please let me know if you have questions. I am happy to talk with you. You can reach me through SeeSaw, Remind, email, or telephone. I am thrilled to be working with you this year. 

The best way to support our classroom is to connect with us.  Please know that you don't need an open house to "see" our classroom.  This blog and your child's SeeSaw Learning Journal are great ways to get a view into our day to day happenings.  To access SeeSaw, you will need to download the free app.  I have sent home a qr code that links you directly to your student's work.  At home, you will only be able to see and comment on your child's work.  At school, all the children will be able to see your positive comments.  The app also allows you to message me directly.  Please connect with us!  More than one parent and grandparents can all connect to the same account.  Let me know if you want me to share the qr code again.

Happy Dot Day

Happy Dot Day!  September 15 is International Dot Day.  Celebrated by both children and adults, International Dot Day is a day to connect, collaborate, and create. It's also a great day to foster self-expression.  The day is based on the wonderful book by Peter H. Reynolds. 

In third grade we celebrated by wearing polka-dots.  We also made some "dot" creations in SeeSaw.  The students were so kind spreading compliments all over SeeSaw.  Please check out your child's SeeSaw journal to see what they have been up to!

Rodeo Round Up...or Down

The third graders have been working on rounding this week. We started with a lot of number line work and talking about what decades certain numbers fell between. For instance, if given the number 57, students would say, "57 is between 50 and 60, it is closer to 60." Soon the students understood the "rules" for rounding. We made an anchor chart about when to round up and when to round down. In small groups the students made a giant number line and color coded the decades.  Then they went through each number and colored it according the decade the number would round to.

 

 I'm sure you've seen all the work the students have done on SeeSaw.  We have also been playing games in class and practicing this concept in our math journals.  They are working so hard.

 

 

Here is an easy little game to play at home if you are interested in giving your child some extra practice.  You will need playing cards to play this rounding game of top it.  Players will pull two cards and make a two digit number.  Then, they rounded the number to the 10s place.  They compare their number to the opposing player and the greater number takes all the cards.  The winner has the most cards at the end of the game. You could adjust this game for rounding to the 100s place as well.  We will be working on rounding to the 100s place next week.