Mrs. Rhoads' 3rd Grade 2011-2012
Welcome to Keystone Elementary Room 117! What a terrific bunch of third graders I have the pleasure of working with this year! You are encouraged to visit often to check out what is happening in our third grade classroom. I hope you find this website helpful and informative. Comments are always welcome!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
LIGHTHOUSE AWARDS
On November 16th, The Knox Civic Club presented Lighthouse Awards for the first grading period.
A special thanks to this group of community women, who four times throughout the year, take time to recognize students for their attitude, work ethic, and citizenship.
Congratulations to our Lighthouse Award winners for the first grading period:
Best Friend and Helper: Jordan and Peyton
Random Acts of Kindness: Rori and Maddie
Most Hardest Working: Sylvia and Terry
Monday, November 14, 2011
CLASSROOM READ ALOUD
ACADEMICS (Nov. 16 - 22)
Our story until Thanksgiving Break is "Moses Goes to a Concert", by Isaac Millman. Moses is a deaf boy who learns about playing percussion instruments from a talented, deaf musician, when he and his classmates attend a concert.
The story is told in words, as well as American Sign Language, introducing hearing children to the signs for some of the key words and phrases. At the end of the story there are two entire conversations in sign language, and a page showing the hand alphabet.
Skills include: main idea and supporting details, summarizing, using a diagram, and context clues.
ENGLISH
We have been focusing on singular possessive nouns after completing our study of singular/plural nouns, and common/proper nouns. Plural possessive nouns are next and that's when the FUN begins, along with a little confusion!
MATH
After learning the three forms used to express numbers (standard, expanded and word), we are moving on to comparing numbers in the hundreds and thousands using the greater than (>), less than (<), and equals (=) signs.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Our community unit has begun and the three types of communities (urban, suburban, and rural) will continue to be our focus.
SCIENCE
Our study of roles of living things continues. The students completed a camouflage activity where they got to "hide" a camouflaged moth to show how animals adapt to their environment and protect themselves.
Monday, November 7, 2011
ACADEMICS (Nov. 7- 10)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
APPLE CRUNCH DAY
Be sure to ask your child what he or she did to celebrate Apple Crunch Day.
Monday, August 29, 2011
WELCOME BACK!
I want to welcome you back to a new school year. It's hard to believe that summer vacation is over. I hope everyone had a fun-filled summer, whether you played in your backyard or took a family vacation! Now it's time to make new friends and learn lots of interesting things. I'm looking forward to a GREAT year in Room 117!