Our multiplication ice cream scoop competition has begun! Please help your student master his/her multiplication facts for this competition. Students are asked to master all of their multiplication facts before the end of third quarter in order to earn their ice cream celebration. Students are asked to master x0, x1, x10, x11, x2, and x5 facts first. Students will move onto x9, x3, and x4 facts next. Students will finish up with x6, x7, x8, and x12 facts.

Happy New Year to everyone. Please remember the grades for quarter two close this Friday, with report cards coming out the following Friday.

This week we will focus our social studies learning of Black History on Martin Luther King Jr. We've been learning about the Civil Rights Movement and will continue to look at MLK Jr.'s impact on this movement.

Please remember to have students continue to practice their multiplication facts. At this point in the year, all third graders should have mastered x0, x1, x2, x10, x11, x5, and x3 facts. All of our math homework this week will focus on building our multiplication and division understanding.

This has been a short and fun-filled week. The class has spent time reviewing multiplication, learning about holidays celebrated during this time of year, and giving thanks for what we have.

There will be no homework over the vacation. I hope everyone enjoys a healthy, happy holiday season together. We'll all return well rested and ready to learn!

"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty." -Haniel Long

Enjoy Thanksgiving!

Last week was a fun and exciting week for our class. We were lucky enough to have author, Jeff Kinney, visit LSS. The entire school received autographed copies of his newest book! We also had a fun field trip to Legoland, where we learned about force and motion. This learning experience will help us when we talk more about simple machines later on this year.

This week is a short week for us, so there will be no spelling homework. We will have math homework on Monday night only (elapsed time practice).

Please take the time to reflect with your student about what they are thankful for during this Thanksgiving season. Our thankful writing will be sent home on Tuesday to share. Enjoy your Thanksgiving!

We will not have any spelling homework this week, since it's a short week. We will have the math homework.

Please remember that everyone should be practicing their math facts and reading at least 15 minutes a night.

I wanted to congratulate all of the students who worked hard at home to create such wonderful Cornfield Characters. Students' creativity really shined through on this project.

In the classroom we've been working on many new and exciting things. We've been studying about the solar system in science. Students are becoming experts on a planet and putting together a nonfiction writing sample to show their expertise.  In math we have been learning the CUBES strategy for solving word problems. We have also been learning about bar graphs and pictographs. In literacy we've been focusing on responding to literature.

If students would like to practice on IXL, some great choices for them would be P.4, P.5, P.6, P.9, and P.10.