Ms. Applonie's 3rd Grade Class

This week went by so fast but not having school on Monday will do that!

Tuesday, we went to library for the second time but for the first time inside the library! With our librarian, Mrs. Anderson, we are working on earning poms by having good behavior. With the poms we are having a competition between all the kindergarten classes to see who can earn the most. This week our morning class won! Yay!

Wednesday, we got on our iPads and logged into i-Ready reading for the first time. We are loving i-Ready! Whenever we get 100% on an i-Ready lesson we get a star in our classroom folders, when we get to 30 stars we get to pick a prize from the treasure chest!

Thursday, we practiced getting on i-Ready some more and lots of friends got stars! We read a book called Dude, it was a funny book that only has the word “dude” in it. There were lots and lots of giggles.

Friday, we had another computer science lesson with Mrs. Jaques. We started learning about coding. We know that coding is the language we use to talk to computers. Mrs. Jaques brought us a fun game to play to practice. We also had our first science lesson and talked about how when we are curious we can discover new and important things.

I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend and is ready to jump back into it tomorrow!

The past week we have been getting our procedures down and learning lots of new things.

We are learning how to use the supplies in our classroom as tools for learning. For example: pencils, scissors, glue, crayons, etc. And we know a fun trick to help us hold our pencil correctly.

We practiced writing our names and “I can” sentences.

We had picture day and our first library day on Tuesday. We participated in our first computer science class on Friday.

We read “The Book With No Pictures” which turned out to be a lot more fun than it sounded at first. It has quickly become a class favorite.

We had surprise fire drills in both the morning and afternoon classes that made us jump a little bit.

We had our first Fun Friday where there were lots of fun centers to choose from. We got to let our creative juices flow as we played with all of the fun things.

This week I will be sharing files with class pictures via email. Each student has their own folder which I will send along with class and group picture file. There are not many pictures yet but we will be adding pictures throughout the school year so I encourage you to bookmark the file.