It is so wonderful to be back with your kids today!  I heard wonderful things from the guest teacher, and I promised them a treat when I got back if they were respectful and responsible for her...so, it is true....I gave them doughnuts.  I promise not to do it all the time :).  A couple of students even earned prizes from my prize box. 
    In reading we are working really hard on identifying the main idea of a non-fiction text.  Finding the main idea of a text is tricky for third graders, and it is something that will require a lot of practice. 
    In math we are working on subtraction with regrouping.