Recent class news, happenings and photos
Students carefully assembled a dodecahedron in class. A dodecahedron is a 3-dimensional figure that has 12 faces. Each face of their figure had a math problem to practice the various multiplication properties. The kids did a great job and had so much fun creating their figures.
Students and families (including any out-of-town family members who may want to purchase books as gifts) will be allowed to shop online for an assortment of books. Students will have an opportunity to shop in person with their class.
Room 14 will also have a classroom wish list of books to add to our classroom.
Payment Options:
Send cash with your child. Place the cash in an envelope with your child’s name on it.
Set up an e-Wallet set up for your child to shop with.
Families can also choose to shop online.
Students can use this anchor chart to help them remember how to use quotation marks when they include dialogue in their narratives.
Today marks the 24th year anniversary of September 11th. Like many Americans, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first heard the news report that day. Let's never forget the 2,977 individuals that lost their lives that day.
The students have been working on their multiplication skills, and focusing on three main learning targets.
I can use different strategies to solve multiplication problems.
I can solve word problems using multiplication.
I can use and understand multiplication properties.
One strategy that they have been learning about are multiplication arrays (rows x columns). To help visualize array concepts, the students made their own Multiplication City!
9/1/25 UPDATE: New pictures added from recent Writers Workshop lessons!
8/7/25: Students have been working hard on their Writers Workshop lessons. Throughout the school year, students will learn narratives, opinion, and informative styles of writing. We are currently learning the narrative genre, and it is so exciting to see and read the stories they are writing. Students also meet with writing partners to get advice and feedback on their writing so that they may edit and revise their work just like published authors! Thank you to the parents who donated the 4-color click pens! These are our special Writers Workshop pens that are only used during Writers Workshop!
Thanks to parent donations, our class has access to games like Adsumudi — a mental math game, Sumoku— another math game, sets of Jenga blocks, and decks of cards that can be used to figure out equations utilizing addition and subtraction, and for some students— multiplication! In class, we played Addition and Subtraction War using standard decks of cards, which is a game that students could easily play at home if families have cards as well! We also played a multiplication game called Circles and Stars using simple dice. With the Jenga blocks, the kids got to know one another by answer questions corresponding to each block!
Students worked on their third grade goal portraits. These goals were shared during parent conferences. Every child thought of a goal to work on in the school setting, home setting, our school values, and a personal goal.
Students may watch our Multiplication Properties tutoring video to help them remember and understand the differences between the Commutative, Associative, and Distributive Properties.
The students learned about using the distributive property to solve multiplication equations today. The class also helped make a tutoring video that can downloaded and viewed as many times as necessary to help with homework and to answer questions at home.
