We had another fabulous week in third grade! I am having so much fun getting to know each child and seeing their personalities shine through more and more! We have had a lot of laughs together! This week we began our Place Value unit in Math. We reviewed odd and even, ordinal numbers, practiced adding greater numbers and learned a few new games to practice place value and addition facts. If you have a deck of cards at home, ask your child to teach you how to play "Mind Reader" or "Addition War". We went to the Star Lab for the first time on Tuesday. The kids were so excited and absolutely loved it! We found the Big Dipper, Little Dipper, North Star and a few other fall constellations. We also began our Plant Growth and Development unit in Science. We observed a dry and wet lima bean seed, and learned to identify its parts. We are getting ready to plant our seeds next week! In Reading Workshop the kids were introduced to the different reading genres. We will be focusing on a different genre each day to get the kids familiar with each one. They will learn how to tally and complete reader's responses for each genre using their Reader's Notebooks. They also learned about each Literacy Station and are ready to start rotations on Monday. In Writing, we decorated our journals and began having discussions about the Do's and Don't's of Writing Workshop, and what third grade writer's should do. The kids wrote three writing goals that they would like to work on in the beginning of the year. Once they have achieved their goals, they will write new ones. Everyone did a great job working hard this week! We had many purple cards and stars! I hope you all have a great weekend and I hope to see everyone at the Fall Family Picnic on Sunday!