Weekly Update

Grandparent & Special Person Day:
What a great time students had sharing the morning with their grandparents and other special guests on Thursday!  Our guests spent time doing some morning math work, listening to students read aloud favorite picture books in the library, eating breakfast in the LGI, and listening to students read aloud their country reports and informational books while they ate.  Back in the classroom, students interviewed their guests to learn more about what life was like when they were in third grade.  Students loving learning more about their guests and realized how much times have changed.  Check out TONS of great photos from our special day in the slideshow below.  To see larger versions of the photos, double click on any photo.

 

Reading & Writing Workshop:
We spent most of last week finishing up our informational books.  Students spent a great deal of time on this project and were so excited to finally publish their reports.  Both the graded rough drafts and the final books will be coming home this week for students to share with their parents.  We ask that (only) the final books be returned to school so that we can display them outside our classroom for other Hill students and staff to enjoy.

Math:
We continued Unit 6 in math: Geometry.  We focused mostly on quadrilaterals, which are polygons with 4 sides.  The quadrilaterals we have studied include rectangles, squares, parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids.  Students practiced drawing different quadrilaterals that matched specific descriptions and describing the relationships among the various types of quadrilaterals.

Social Studies:
We began our tour of the Southwest Region this week.  Geographically, this is a large region, but it only has 4 states!  We are traveling on a big rig during this region.  Our first two stops were in Monument Valley, home of the Navajo Indian tribe, and Phoenix, Arizona, the hottest large city in America.

Star of the Week:
Gloria was our awesome All-Star of the Week!  On Monday, she loved showing her sharing sack items to her classmates, especially a special snow globe that she got from her grandma in Romania.  She also did a wonderful job reading her favorite book aloud with excellent fluency.  Her mom was her lunch buddy on Tuesday, but she was lucky to also see her mom and her grandpa again on Thursday for Grandparents Day!