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Mrs. Jones' class started our day off with some science fun from our High Touch, High Tech science experiments. This is one of the programs that PTA provides for us. We had a lot of fun exploring volcanoes, tornadoes, and earthquakes!

Award Winners!

Congrats to Aeda, Kendi, Will, and Annelise!

2 x 1 Digit Multiplication

Gratitude Award

Congrats to our Gratitude Winners, Stasia and Damian! 

Jousting Fun!

We had fun watching Mrs. Youngblood and Ms. Conley jousting because we met our Color Run Fundraiser goal!

Related Facts

While you are studying multiplication facts, don't forget to study the corresponding division fact, too! 

How are you studying your multiplication and division facts?

Election Day Fun

We had fun voting and stuffing our own ballot box!

Questions to discuss over fiction text

Below are some higher level questions that you can use for discussion with your child's self-selected fiction book. 

Sample Guiding Questions for Process Standards in Fiction Text

• What do you look for when you read a fiction text? (Set a Purpose for Reading)
• What important things are you thinking about as you read a fiction text? (Set a Purpose for Reading)
• What can you tell about the character from what he thinks or how he behaves? (Inferring)
• How do you feel about the character? Why do you feel that way? (Inferring)
• How do you imagine the setting of this story? (Visualizing)
• What is the big message of this story? (Inferring)
• How does this story make you think of your own life? (Access and Use Prior Knowledge)
• Do the characters in your book make you think of someone else in your life? How? (Access and Use Prior Knowledge)
• How does this story compare to ___________________? (Access and Use Prior Knowledge)
• What was the most important thing that happened in the story? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• What action was being taken by the main character(s) of the story? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• What influence did ________ have on _________? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• Why do you think the author included _________? (Infer and Summarize to Determine Importance)
• The big idea of this story was _______ because __________. (Infer and Summarize to Determine Importance)
• How does the story's theme help support your summary? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• How could you summarize this story? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• When I put all of my thinking together, I learned________. (Synthesize)
• How did your thinking about the character change as your followed through their journey? (Synthesize)
• What did you learn from the events in this story? (Synthesize) 

Bar Models

Below is a picture of another way we are representing multiplication and division...through what we call a bar model or strip diagram. 

Fun with the Morris Brothers!

We kicked off Red Ribbon Week with a fun assembly about staying drug free. The Morris Brothers were lots of fun, and several of our classmates got to go on stage!

Magnetic Fun!

We had fun trying to transfer magnetism through paperclips today!

Multiplication and Division Strategies

Arrays in the world around us!

What multiplication sentence matches these real life arrays? 

When have you seen arrays in real life?

Reading Beginning of the Year

Below is a sample from fiction text of the "level" that students are supposed to be reading at the beginning of third grade. If your child is reading a harder book, ask them questions to make sure they understand what they are reading. If your child is reading an easier book, use this sample to know the type of text we are working up to reading. (Click on the picture to enlarge it.)

Friday Assembly

We had an awesome assembly to kick off our Color Run Fundraiser! Jimmy Lee was there to spread some positivity and help us celebrate, too. Also, congrats to our 2 All Stars (Kayden and Serenity) and to our 2 Curious Characters (Bala and Evan)!

Techniques for Good Readers

Nonfiction Text

We are working on reading nonfiction text – paying attention to all of those text features that help us understand the topic we’re reading about.  Things like: photographs and their captions, charts, diagrams, maps, glossary and index.  We’re also working on using the chapter titles in the table of contents to make predictions about what we might learn in that chapter.  Here are some questions that you could use at home to see if your child is understanding their nonfiction book (click on the picture to enlarge)...

Changes in States of Matter

Crayons are made out of wax. What do you think the wax was like before, during, and after making the crayons? What would happen to the crayons if you left them outside on a hot day?

College Week

We have had a blast celebrating College Week! Mrs. Jones is so grateful to the wonderful parents who decorated her door! What has been your favorite part of this week?

Addition and Subtraction

Here is some helpful info on addition and subtraction. We use a variety of methods, including the traditional algorithm.


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Here are some notes on different methods:

More Place Value Information

Parents, here is another video for you over place value. This also goes over common misconceptions of our students. If your child is struggling with place value, I hope this will be a helpful tool for them and you!

50s Dress Up

Look at these cool cats celebrating Mrs. Youngblood's 50th birthday!!

Composing and Decomposing for Place Value

Parents, here is a video for you to see how we are composing (forming) and decomposing (breaking apart) numbers. In third grade we work with numbers up to the 100,000 place. 

Beginning of Third Grade

Hello, all! How was your first week of 3rd grade? 

Shout out to Cole in Mrs. Jones' homeroom for being the first to blog. If you would like to know how to post a comment, too, please read the post below. 

Welcome to our class blog!

Yea! You found the blog! This is our place for sharing all the crazy, wonderful things we're doing in the classroom. We absolutely LOVE reading your comments (as do your fellow classmates), so please take a moment to leave one. This is a great way to share your feelings on anything we're doing, comment on your lovely teachers :), or even ask a question.

To leave a comment, go to the post you want to comment on and click on the link where it says the number of comments...like (0 comments). It's directly under the post.
Then type your post. Afterwards, select the drop down menu right underneath and click on "name/url". Type your first name in only and leave the url section blank. Click okay and it might ask you to type in a word as a security measure (to make sure you are safely accessing the blog). Your post will be sent to me to approve (so you won't see it automatically) and after I do it will appear on the blog! Viola! That may sound like a lot, but once you do it a bit, it will be so easy and YOU will be a pro at blogging!

Baby Miles

Miles Jones is here! He was born on July 18th. He was 8 lbs, 11 oz and 21 inches long. Mrs. Jones is soooo excited that Miles is here!

Science Fun

Last Friday we set our adult ladybugs free. Today we completed some dancing experiments where we made water move and groove and raisins boogie on down. Science is always so fun!

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Inherited Traits

I think inherited traits are loads of fun to learn about. I often see my hands have the same look as my mom's hands did. I look at my sons and see these little kids looking back at me with smiles that look like mine! It's science fun for sure! What inherited traits do you share with your family?

Progression of Mathematical Operations

I recently came across these videos on the progression of addition/subtraction and the progression of multiplication/division. This really appeals to me not just as a math teacher, but also as a parent. I will say that my first grader has been introduced to the concept of multiplication (by his teacher; not his mother), specifically skip counting, and it blows my mind what he can do. I think understanding how students build on these operations, instead of focusing on just a grade level (let's do this in 2nd grade, or wait for this strategy until 5th grade) allows us to give our kiddos what they are ready for when they are ready for it! Parents, please take a moment to watch these!

Addition/Subtraction:

https://vimeo.com/157768846 

Multiplication/Division:

https://vimeo.com/149428217 

Sorting Figures

We are working on classifying (grouping) figures based off of their attributes. Below is a sample from our sort on quadrilaterals. If students want to practice this at home, they need to first select a sorting "rule" based on the attributes used to sort figures. 

If you are looking for a site to study geometric vocabulary, go here: 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_Qlc6rQNCqPWIYS1Xr8GcoqfuHebGloAFFHMZUDs9Js/edit#slide=id.p 

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Parents:

Our kiddos had an amazing time at our science High Touch, High Tech presentations this week. Our students enjoyed Cosmic Capers, which was a perfect addition to our Solar System research. We got to launch rockets, make "Alien Sneeze", test our moon leaping abilities, and try a human gyroscope. We are thankful to PTA for scheduling this for us!