Snowflake and other Christmas Elves

3A was delighted to discover an elf had at arrived in our classroom this week!  Our elf,whom we named Snowflake, surprises us with an elf challenge each day. So far we've made candy cane ornaments that look like Rudolph, handed out candy canes to random students and staff, had an extra recess in the snow, listened to Christmas music, made Christmas cards, and gifted one to the principal. We look forward to more elf fun next week!

 

This week we also had the opportunity to be Christmas Elves and deliver food and toys to the depot. It was a truly wonderful experience and the kids did an amazing job sorting all the goods.

ELA

We wrote Letters to Santa. We learned about the parts of a letter (heading, greeting, body, and closing). The students had some great questions about life at the North Pole. We hope he writes back!

Handwriting

We completed 2 more Loop group letters.

OG phonics and spelling

This week we reviewed the Soldier rule. We completed a word sort with different ways to spell the /k/ sound at the end of words.
Eg) -k, book
       k-e, like (silent e)
       -ck, luck (soldier rule: long spelling right after short vowel)

Chromebooks

Students read books on epic, practiced reading comprehension on dreamscape, and had a chance to check out abcya and Santa tracker. We also use mathletics and xtramath for math practice and review.

The links to these sites can be found on the blog and can be used at home.

Math

We completed Lesson 1-6 in our Place Value unit. Students are studying the many ways to represent numbers.

Science

This week in science we continue to learn about and compare how animals hear. We learned that elephants hear through their feet!!! We will be having a test in science December 16th.

Social Studies

This week in social we finished up our posters and presented them! We also started reviewing what we have learned about India so that we are prepare for our test December 11th.