Music

Today in music we tested our recorders. We practiced playing (note) b. When we played (note) b, You have to put your first finger on the first hole,and put your thumb on the thumb hole.

Today at school we wrote in cursive

 Today in writing, we did our first page of cursive! We traced under curve and down curve. Some people were better than others but I'm sure they'll get use to it. It was REALLY fun. There was a page were you had to write cursive letters that you knew, and had to try and read cursive.





 From: Miss. DeCarlo's class

Who Knew!

Today Lahav's mom and dad told us about Hanukkah. he told us where Hanukkah started.

PE Relay

Today in PE, we played a basketball relay. Almost always the red team won. And the yellow  team won  too. Mrs. Oakley was proud of us because there were two classes in the gym (Mrs. Panzl and our class.
And the whole class had fun

This Week We Will Have...

Math: We have been learning our division facts as well as different strategies! The strategies are: equal groups, repeated subtraction, equal groups with remainders, and repeated subtraction with remainders. Students know to represent remainders with a capital R and then the number. We will have our test this Friday, December 10th. Next week we will be talking about algebra and order of operations. This is one of my favorite things in math to teach EVER!! :)

Reading: We have been talking about compare and contrast. Make sure to try to use our strategy at home when you do your reading HW!

Science: We are waiting for our plants to grow! We planted them last Wednesday. We created hypotheses today about what our plants are going to look like when they "grow". How is your plant going to show growth? What are you going to see? 

Writing: We have been visiting poetry and beginning to collect pieces for our anthology. Students will begin our district writing prompt before we leave for break. There is nothing that you need to worry about at home.

Dividing in divsion all over the place!

  Hey! Guess what were already learning DIVISION!!! You accuse us of lying?! Well you are absolutely, positively WRONG!! For your information we really learning division and for proof you can e-mail Miss DeCarlo. We are having lots of fun and love learning new division! Like remainders and equal groups. We learned repeated subtraction to figure out our division problems. Now we need your help! 56 divided by 16= ? Send in the answer! Please! Please! we need your help asap! Thanks, bye!!

Life in the library

  On Tuesday November 23, 2010 do to air conditioning problems our class was moved. Where were we moved  you ask? To the library! And now you think a tragedy class 301 was moved to the library! After all it was not as big of a tragedy as you think, it was actually kind of an interesting  experience. But unfortunately we had to be extremely quiet which for our class is like level 3! That did not effect us much because we were having a multiplication test ( which we all passed with a level of 70% or higher!) But now we are back in the classroom and we are all happy again!

This Week We Will Have...

Hey 3rd graders! Hope you had a great weekend! This week we have a 2 day week to look forward to! :) We will take our main idea test tomorrow, Monday. There really isn't any way to study for this in particular. If you have been paying attention and doing your best work during class, you should do great! On Tuesday, we will take our multiplication test. Make sure you practice your facts!! You can use scrap paper/graph paper to create arrays to help you get your answers.

Tuesday is our Thanksgiving Feast with our fellow 3rd grade classes! I'm so excited to share in this feast with you! Please make sure you bring what you signed up for! Parents, we will have a microwave that we can reheat food in. Please try to send items in a microwavable bowl. Also, try to send in serving spoons to use. We will try to label dishes as best we can! Thanks so much for your continued support for our children!!

Times Test's

'         Today we did our 7th times test! We are starting to run out of easy facts and getting to the hard ones, like 6's, 7's, 8's, and 12's. Once we finish all the tests with 93% or higher  we get a Sundae party! We will be earning; a bowl, spoon, napkin, 1 scoop, 2 scoops, chocolate syrup, cookie topping, candy topping, sprinkles, magic shell, whipped cream, and a cherry. It will be a tummy loving, taste bud dancing sundae party!

Multiplction

Today we had another multiplction quiz. Miss. DeCarlo will ask you what times tables you want. We have to complete the test in three minutes. When we complete all of our facts, we will all enjoy an ice cream sundae party! 

In writing, we learned about writing using elaborative details.  This means that we need to add details using our senses. We need to write using describing words.

Show in Tell

 Today Maya and Tyler showed their reports on the trip they took. They each made a book on what they did on their trip. Maya took a trip to Boston. Tyler took a trip to Williamsburg.

We learned about our 8 times tables and we had our multiplication test. We get a sundae  party after we master all our times tables .  Today we practiced our multiplication flash cards.                                                          

Ms. Arden's special visits

Today Ms. Arden came to our classroom to talk about writing stories. We acted out scenes of a story in slow motion. We did it to get the idea of putting in every detail and not rushing through a story. 

today we....

Today in gym we did sit ups it made my stomach hurt. Today was also game day. There was battle ship, monopoly and more. That was our day.

Problem Solving Rap!!

Thanks to Miss Kochy for her rhyming abilities, and Miss G.B. for her beat-boxing skills!

Spanish Class

Today in Spanish our Spanish teacher had to come to our class. The kindergarten 

class had their classroom under construction so they were using the Spanish class.

Spanish was very (I mean it) fun!

Today at school

Today in gym we played outside! There was Frisbee, jump rope and basket ball. It was very cold outside.
Later we searched some poem books for a poem we could relate to. We are going to make poem anthology books. Today we did a lot of interesting activities!

our class today

Today in art, we cut out towns for our Van Gogh style skies.  We cut our landscapes out of black paper. The black paper was thick. 

During writing we picked and studied our long e spelling words. We had a great day.

Pajama and Board Game Party!

This Thursday, 11/4, we are going to be celebrating our class reward for filling our marble jar. Students, please wear your PJs to school on Thursday (Parents-- I spoke to the class about dressing appropriately. They may wear sweats as PJs if they don't usually wear them :) ). Also, please bring in your favorite board game to play with a small group of friends. Games include, but are not limited to: Monopoly, The Game of Life, Scattergories, Bananagrams, Checkers, Chess, Mancala, Trivial Pursuit, etc. Students may also create their own board game. We're looking forward to an afternoon of fun!! :)

Our Field Trip and Halloween Party!

Today was a great day! We left school at 8:45 and walked to see the sculptures on Poplar Ave. Mike and his wife showed us around their yard with all the sculptures. We were able to touch and play with them. We learned that each sculpture weighs 100s and even 1000s of pounds!

After that, we walked down the street to the Carrboro Fire Department. We learned the 4 important things to remember if we call 911. They are: your name, address, phone number, and what your emergency is. We also learned what to do if we live on the 2nd or 3rd floor. The fire fighter told us that we should have an escape ladder in our rooms to escape in case of a fire.

Then, we walked next door to town hall. Here we heard from different people about how our town works. They talked about different town departments. The highlight of that was when the police chief was talking and the police officers showed up from different places along with the SWAT team!! This was so awesome! There are so many people who help run our town! They are all important in different ways!

Last, we walked up to the cemetery where we answered questions. We had to run around looking for the answers on the different gravestones. We took a quick tour of Carr Mill Mall to see where the mill used to be on our way back to school. 

We walked back to school, enjoyed our lunch, had reading, and then celebrated HALLOWEEN!! We had a ton of fun going around the room to different centers. We enjoyed a scavenger hunt, decorated cupcakes, mummy wrapped our friends, and had yummy snacks! Thanks to all the parents who made this party successful and lots of fun!!

Have a happy and safe Halloween!! :)

3rd Grade Class Trip

Friday, October 29th, we are headed on our first class trip. Since we have been studying communities, we will be traveling around Carrboro checking out the community where we live! Pics to come soon!

Welcome to Our Class Blog!

This is a test to see if our blog is set up! The kids seem very excited to get started in the "blogger" world!