11/11/2016

Happy Veterans Day!  We were honored to be a part of the Veterans Day ceremony in town with the fourth grade class.  Our third graders have been very busy in both reading and writing this week.

Writing:  Students have completed their drafts for their personal narratives!  Next week we will start learning about how we can revise drafts in order to make them better.  Students have really been improving their stamina and producing more and more writing.

Reading:  We are currently reading, The War with Grandpa which is helping us with our personal narratives.  Students have been reading independently and conferencing with Ms. Franklin.

Reminders:
11/16 Picture Retakes


High/Lows for the week:

High:  Going with Ms. Kauffman
High: Doing symphony math
High: Symphony math
High: Finishing 16 pages on my draft
High: Getting to level D in symphony math
Low: Had to get rid of our old words in word study
Low: Having to take a break
High: Going to the State House to get my award
Low: Getting yelled at, at recess
High: Ms. Franklin's class joined us for science
Low: Football/frisbee is ending in PE today
High: I brought back my reading log!
Low: I wish I could've done more than an hour
High: Getting a 4 on my reading log
High: It was warm enough for outdoor recess all week
High: Getting to see all of you guys
High: learning bubble letters
High: Getting a score of a 3 on the MIT chart
Low: That we have to be scored on MIT
High:  Drafting our personal narratives
High: Having dinner with Mr. Kinnarney at a special dinner
High: I read for 70 minutes
Low: I forgot to pack my reading log

Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Friday!
It's hard to believe that it is already November. Students have been hard at work in every setting; here are some updates:

Word Study:  We started working in groups studying features of words.  Students have learned extensions to help study their words and took a test today!

Writing:  We have committed to a topic for our Personal Narratives!  Students will begin narrowing down to a small moment and drafting these stories next week!

CLiF Grant Assembly:  We had author Jim Arnosky visit our school and tell us stories as well as play music for us!  We also celebrated the addition of $1,000.00 worth of books to our school library.

High/Lows of the week:

High- starting word study groups
High: Earning three stickers for doing my homework
Low: Some students weren't respectful during the CLiF assembly
High: Voting!
Low: Mrs. Gingras is not here
High: We had a good day with the guest teacher
Low: We didn't get to pick out books
High: The author coming
High: Bringing my reading log back!
Low: School felt very short
High: I fixed Mrs. Thompson's computer
High: The author visit
High: Jim Arnosky coming to do CLiF reading
High: Fixing Mrs. Thompson's computer
High: Doing my homework
High: Jim Arnosky playing guitar
Low: Thinking that I got a 0 on work
High: Starting word study groups
High: Indoor recess was fun
Low: Mrs. Gingras is not here
Low:  I owe reading
High: the author visit with the music
High: Miss Sarah got the movie going for us
Low:  Starting word study
High: bringing in my folder
Low: getting injured at recess

After watching 'ET' as a class we did the ET greeting at our third grade morning meeting today:

Have a wonderful weekend!