- Mark Your Calendars - 

• Picture Day: Monday, September 29th

• After School Activities (Fall Session) begins 9/29 and runs through 11/14
• 4-H Club - Monday
• NAHS Wearable Art - Thursdays
• Run Club - Thursdays
• Chess Club - Fridays
• NHS Study Group - Fridays

• Fun Run - Thursday, October 2nd

• No School - Friday, October 10th (Teacher Workshop) and Monday, October 13th (VI&PR Friendship Day)

• VI Junior Duathalon - Sunday, October 19th at Altona Lagoon 

• Friday, October 24th: Fall Conference Day (more information to come)

• Halloween Fun! October 31 - Costume Parade (school day) and Boo Bash 4 - 7 pm  

Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• What makes our classroom work?
• How to be a good friend.
• Fun Run Pep Rally
• September Birthdays - Zaina, Lujain, Zayn and Ares!!

• Math

• Numbers and number system
• counting and sequences
• negative integers
• coins and time review
• understanding place value
• STAR testing

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)

• We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
• Be You! by Peter H. Reynolds
• Island Born by Junot Diaz
• The Third Grade Reader by Curious Bee
• Donavan's Word Jar by Monalisa DeGross
• Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan
• Spelling words in class work (2 wks) - no, know, hatch, stitch, scratch, lunch, crunch, stretch, write, should, witch, which, squash, wash, have, bolt, spring, scold, child, grind
• Understanding "glues letters" to build words
• Writing an opinion paragraph about their favorite day of the week and stating reasons why.
• STAR testing

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Where do clouds come from?
• The water cycle.
• Creating a Storm Spotters Guide

• Homework 
• Nightly reading log - 20+ minutes
• Fundations worksheets
• Math Games

Social Emotional Learning with Ms. Bird - 3rd Grade worked on how to deal with their different daily emotions.

Birthday Celebrations Zayn and Ares!

September Birthday!!

                                                                     Fun Run Reward Days!

Fun Run Pep Rally!

  - Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• Created Classroom Contract
• First Fire Drill - successfully accomplished the task!
• Celebrated 2 Birthdays this week - Zaina Abdelghani and Lujain Farraj
• Friday Gathering 9.5.25 - New Student Intros (Welcomed Kitami, Rodney and Quin!)

• Math
• 2nd Grade Review
• Money
• Time
• Fact Families
• Word Problems
• Math Stations

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Do Unto Otters, By L. Keller
• Be Kind, By P. Z. Miller
• The Recess Queen, By A. O'Neill
• I Promise, By L. James
• Maybe Something Beautiful, BY F.I. Campoy and T. Howell
• Writing and creating projects from each book read in the classroom

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Observed and studied termites (via video) learning the steps of being a scientist.
• Student scientists took over the class to predict, observe, record, investigate, and share.

•     Homework 
• Nightly reading log - 20+ minutes

- Announcements - 

• Tuesday, 9/16: STAR Math Assessment
• Thursday, 9/18: STAR Reading Assessment
• Thursday, September 25th @4pm: Parent Information Afternoon (meet in Pavilion for greeting from Admin and light refreshments and then pick up your child from the playground and meet me in our classroom!)
• After School Activities (Fall Session) begins 9/29 and runs through 11/14
• Run Club - Thursdays
• Friday, October 24th: Fall Conference Day (more information to come)
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First Week of School!

 - Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• Classroom Procedures (Classroom Library, Emergency Procedures, etc.)
• Classroom Bingo
• Silent Line Up - Height Order
• Celebrating Angelica's Birthday with Extra Recess!
  

• Math
• Review
• Math Fact Families
• Hundreds Chart
• All About Me: Math

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• The Day You Begin, By J. Woodson
• Your Name is a Song, By J. Thompkins-Bigelow
• All are Welcome, By A. Penfold
• Writing Our All About Me Book for the Classroom

- Announcements - 

• First Fire Drill 9/24 @11:10am
• Thanks for all of the supplies!
• Color Days Begin NEXT Week - help support our littles' color unit!

• The color days’ schedule is as follow: 

  Tuesday, September 2: Red Day 

  Wednesday, September 3:  Blue Day 

  Thursday, September 4: Yellow Day             

  Friday, September 5: Orange Day   

  Monday, September 8: Green Day   

  Tuesday, September 9: Purple Day 

  Wednesday September 10: Brown Day 

  Thursday, September 11: Black and White Day 

  Friday, September 12: Rainbow Day   

- Photos - 

Welcome to Our Class Blog!

 

I am excited to share glimpses into our classroom throughout the year on this blog! 

If you ever have any questions or concerns, feel free to e-mail me at mgwilliam@ghcds.org.

I am excited to learn and have fun with your kids this year!

~Ms. Mo~