The Evil Hungry Hamburgers Poet Society is very appreciative of your support!  Thank you for coming and cheering us on.

Over break keep practicing reading skills as well as math facts.  We are moving into multiplication (with a little division), but don't forget that we have to keep up with our addition and subtraction as well.

See you after break!  Hope you have a wonderful time.

We are all very excited for the break, but we managed to focus in and learn about how to use number lines and array models to help us multiply.  We also practiced our poems for you, and we are ready to recite.  The slam is scheduled until 10:50, but we may be done as early as 10:30.  We did vote on a name for our Poet Society today.  We are the Evil Hungry Hamburger Poet Society...

Today we started learning about multiplication.  In third grade it is important to know your addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts.  It is also important to know the reasons behind addition, subtraction, and multiplication.  That is why our manipulatives are so important this year. 
For multiplication we will be using area models, number lines, and array models to illustrate the reason 6x3=18.  Knowing the reasons helps us to be logical mathematicians in a way that knowing facts alone does not.

Next week is a two day week, and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.  Please do not feel the need to bring in treats for us.  Understanding why it is important to eat healthy is one of the things that we work on in third grade, and while having treats is nice every once in a while it is also important to know that we can show off our hard work and get together without treats as well.  Thank you for understanding!

I feel so privileged to get to sped this time with your kids.  We are memorizing our poems and reciting them for one another.  It is wonderful to see how deep and introspective these guys are.

Tonight we have Drama Club auditions as well as parent math night.  I hope to see a lot of you tonight at 6:00 to learn about the math that we are working on in school.

We are wrapping up our poetry, and memorizing poems that we've written so that we can recite them for you when you come!

In math we are doing centers so that we can work on our own personal problem areas.

I can feel everyone getting ready for the long break.  We are doing a good job of staying focused despite the excitement. We have earned out button party for getting compliments and following direction in class.  On Tuesday afternoon we will be watching The Muppets and eating popcorn to celebrate our hard work.

The math test did not go well for most people today, so we will be going back a little in math for the next few days.  We will be doing math centers and focusing on our personal struggles so that everyone gets what they need the most.

We worked on writing narrative poems today, and on Wednesday we are going to choose which poem we will read to you and begin to prepare for our Slam!

In math today we did more work on visualizing story problems.  We are becoming very efficient at finding the proper equation to solve real world problems, and well as recognizing when there is a second step to complete to find the answer.

Today for social studies we talked about ways that America's First Nations (Native Americans) used the natural resources around them to meet all of their basic needs. 

Today we had a little change of pace from reading and writing poetry.  We read an article about the election results, and about the electoral college.  Then we had a debate over the importance of the electoral college.  It was very inspiring to watch them.

Hello Families!  We have been working on our narrative poems, and finishing the publishing process for the other poems that we've written. 

I hope to see you all at the parent math night on December 12th at 6:00.  Mrs. Walle and I will be pulling a group to talk specifically about 2nd and 3rd grade bar modeling, and how parents can offer support at home for what we are teaching at school.

We worked really hard today on reading poetry with feeling and inflection.  We read 'Sick' by Shel Silverstein.  It was a hoot.  I look forward to having you here on the 18th to watch us read our own poems.