Sept. 15 – 19

Today is National Dot Day.  Please talk about the activities we did with this very fun book.  You can watch this book here:

The Dot



A HUGE  Thank you goes out to all the parents to came and helped carve apples on Friday!  Our apple witches are carved, and we’re ready to begin our writing unit about them.  Our first assignment will be about how to carve an apple witch.

We are still collecting Box Tops, Bottle Caps, Coke Product Codes, Campbell Soup labels and Tyson Chicken labels.  Third grade is rocking this competition and want to continue doing so.  

Homework for this week:

Spelling Sorts
yellow sort 26
green sort 3
green sort 30
green sort 47

Math
Xtramath  
We are still working on deciding when to add and get the actual total and when to  estimate, which means we round, round and then add to get the estimate.  Please trey these three problems and see if you get the answers that are posted on the homework reporting page.  

1) Mrs. Goldsberry drove 234 miles the first day of her trip and 168 miles the second day.  About many miles did she drive in all?

2) The first week of the competition, our class brought in 467 Box Tops, and  Miss Wadell’s class brought in 384 Box Tops.  How many Box Tops were brought in the first week by the two classes?

3)  There are about 27 students in each of the 3rd grade classes. There are 5  third grade classes.  About how many students are in 3rd Grade?

Have a great week!