The Hayden Hero Herald
September 12, 2013
Reading
We enjoyed sharing powerful pictures books about learning, listening, respect, and friendship as a class. Each story teaches an important lesson and connects our class as a community of readers. In addition, I'm striving to teach the children about Metacognition, thinking about your thinking. We made a "Reading Salad" as we read Thank You, Mr. Falker. Just like a tossed salad is a colorful mixture of lettuce and tomatoes, a reading salad is a colorful mixture of text + thinking. I'm inviting my readers to share what they are thinking.
The children also learned the expectations for developing their independent reading habits. We read our poem of the week, The Reader's Oath, reviewed the "Rules for Reading Right", and learned how to record our reading each night in their homework records.
Writing
We learned that our Writer’s Notebooks are very special notebooks which will help us to “Live our Lives Like Writers” this year.
Our first entry in our notebooks is a list of phrases to describe our unique selves. Each child designed and published a Rainbow poem with the six phrases. Most importantly, we learned how to “publish with pride” and how good it feels to produce our very best work.
Math
The children were math-cited to begin our first
lesson of the year. We started off with a review of important math concepts like filling in the missing numbers in a sequence, finding helpful patterns on a 100 grid, and going on a number hunt too. We are exploring our Student Reference Books (SRBs) and the online interactive SRBs, too.
Bag It
What a wonderful way for us to get to know each other well! The children were so attentive as they shared their bag-its with the class. They made many wonderful connections. We created a Bag-It Museum.
Thank You
Thank you for sending the children to school with all their school supplies. They love using their new pencils, folders, scissors, and markers!
Thank you for your generous donations.
Thank you for your supportive and cheerful smiles at Back To School Night.
Thank you to Mrs. Deborah Cowhey for being our Homeroom Coordinator and Party Planner this year. Please kindly send in your envelopes for the party fund that she distributed at Back to School Night.
Thank you, most of all, for sharing your children with me. I hope they have a year of awesome academic progress and magical third grade memories to keep forever.
Scholastic Book Orders
Scholastic Book Orders
Tomorrow is the final day to order from our September catalogs.
Class code: GTYMY
https://orders.scholastic.com/LBKVQ