Vacation Updates

Dear Families,

I hope the everyone has a restful and relaxing vacation and a Happy New Year.  I will look forward to seeing all of the third graders in 2016.  We have invited all of the K-6 grade students at Salisbury School to once again participate in the Great Escape Reading Challenge.  Third graders were given reading logs today.  Any student that wishes to participate needs to read a minimum of 6 hours (360 minutes) over vacation and log his/her reading in the provided reading log.  The logs need to be returned the week after vacation with a parent/guardian signature.  Students who participate will earn a free ticket to the Great Escape during the summer of 2016.  I hope the all of the third graders will take on this vacation reading challenge!

A reminder that we will be having a cookie exchange on Friday.  Students are invited to bring in 15 cookies.  They will place their cookies on the "cookie buffet table" and have a turn to choose 15 cookies from the incredible variety in front of them.

In math, we have started a unit on measurement, time and fractions.  We played a fun telling time game today.  Many students asked for the link to the game.  Here is the link to the telling time game!

Clock Game

Cookie Exchange

Dear Families,

We are planning a special afternoon for Friday, December 18h.  The third, fourth and fifth grade will be having a craft afternoon and cookie exchange.  We are hoping that each student will bring 15 cookies that they can exchange with classmates.  We will also have several craft stations.  If parents have a craft idea and would like to run a craft session from 1:00-2:00 p.m., we would love to have you join us. 

Thanks, 

Lili Foster

December 8, Update

It is hard to believe that there are eight more school days until our December Vacation.  Students are hard at work on their book projects and their non-fiction reading.  Book projects are due Friday, December 18.  Here is a sample of a completed one.  Please check to see how your student is doing with completing his/her chosen book.

Completed December book projected.

Third Graders are very excited about learning cursive.  Everyone is working hard to learn the letters and to write their name in cursive.  Here are a few pictures of third graders working in their cursive books.

On Thursday, Jessica Lynch will be video taping a literacy lesson as part of my National Board Teaching Certification.  The lesson will be used to analyze and reflect on my instruction.  Students will be discussing a problem and solution text.  It is great to see how far all of the students have come in their ability to  find evidence and key details from the text to support their comprehension and discussions.

On Friday, we will be taking an end of unit math assessment.  Students have been working on estimating reasonable answers using their knowledge of rounding and adding and subtracting with multiple strategies.  Everyone has been introduced to the traditional algorithms for addition and subtraction.   Our next unit is a Measurement and Fractions Unit.  Below, you will find information about what your child will be learning in this upcoming math unit.

Unit 4: Measurement and Fractions Information

Today, is the last day that our Middlebury College Intern will be with us.  We presented Claire with a homemade pot of flowers with all of the students faces on them, cards and we had an ice cream celebration in her honor.  We will miss having her in our classroom on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.

Flowers with our photos on them.

Cards for Claire