If you have never read the book “One Smile,” by Cindy Mckinley…You must!  It is one of my absolute favorite stories!!!  Not only because I really love to see a child SMILE, (you can ask our class…it is a RULE to always SMILE) but also because it melts my heart to think that our wonderful CAN DO KID class could make a difference in the world by “Paying it Forward!” 

As a class, we have decided that our New Year’s Resolution for 2011 is to take the PAY IT FORWARD challenge! 

*Do something real good, kind, genorous… for three people.  Each.  An then when they ask how they can pay it back, simply say… PAY IT FORWARD, to 3 more people. (and on and on and on)! We retold our favorite story…if you would like to listen to it… it brings tears to our eyes everytime we read it!  Enjoy!  and PLEASE TAKE THE PAY IT FORWARD CHALLENGE!!!

Please leave a comment below, sharing your

 Pay it Forward experience!  We would love to hear about all

the wonderful things people are doing to change the world!!!

Mrs. Peterson was kind enough to drop off all the fun Christmas Presents you sweeties had left for me!  I just want to tell you THANK YOU so much for thinking of me and thank YOU for being YOU!  Love you all! Merry Christmas again!

Hi Can Do Kids! I just wanted to wish you a Very MeRrY Christmas! I miss ya already! I hope you have a FABULOUS break from school! Thank you for always putting a SMILE on my face!

P.S. Don’t forget to practice your Math Facts, READ and maybe practice some cursive!!!

Classifying Triangles and Angles! We are going to be playing this game tomorrow in class!  But I thought this would help give some of you a visual at home tonight…just in case you forgot our New Vocabulary!!!

Love, my two kids Jax and Jazzy   PS.  I made this using the Smart Board…remind me to show you how!!!

We read the poem The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven  By: Jack Prelutsky

Then we enjoyed some delicious Turkey!

Hope you all have a Fabulous Thanksgiving Holiday!

Congrats guys!  We have hit over 10,000 hits!  Our blog is a happening place because of you and all the cool stuff you do each day! 

Cheers to BEING A CAN DO KID AND LOVING TO LEARN!

SchOOl is CooL!

We started working on Equivalent Expressions today – We will be working on this for the rest of the year. We are mainly focussing on addition and subtraction expressions right now.

We started with the most amazing Picture Book! I love it! It is a great book to use when introducing this topic.

Here are amazing links to great games that will help your child practice this concept. Please follow the directions below!

http://www.thinkcentral.com Click on “Mathematics,” then on “Math Expressions” Select your state, district, and school: “Utah,” “Weber School District,” then select your school Enter User Name and Password (see below). Once logged in, click on “My Library” to begin

Username:grade3 Password:password

The two places we explored today in class were the iTools- under Algebra Mega Math– we went to Ice Station Exploration–Artic Algebra– A-Missing Addends and B-Equivalent Expressions The children should know how to play these, we did them in class with our Smart Board!

Happy Math to you all!