Links Updated

Greetings,
We are off to a great start! It's been a busy first few days of school. We have gotten to know new friends and reacquainted with old friends. We are learning our new daily routine and are working hard. The students had a lot of fun with a rounding game we played during Math this morning. We have also read the first 4 chapters of Because of Winn-Dixie. The students will have a spelling, reading, math, and social studies test on Friday.
All of the links to the text books and our GA Studies Weekly (Social Studies newspaper) are now working. Sorry for the inconvenience earlier this week as the Math and Science links were down for a couple of days. Since students cannot bring home their Social Studies newspaper, please feel free to access it online through the GA Studies Weekly link. Once you get on the GA Studies Weekly site, please click on Unit 1 (found on the left hand side). All of the usernames/passwords have been provided for you (username first, password second).

Welcome To Our Class

Welcome Back!!
I hope that everyone had a safe, enjoyable, and restful summer.
We will hit the ground running. Our first week will find our class reviewing the rules for both Frank Long and our class. We will being our study in Reading with a novel titled Because of Winn Dixie. In Math we will begin with place value, fluently adding/subtracting to/from 1,000 and rounding. In Science we will begin with the Habitats of Georgia and to round out our day we will use GA Weekly Studies for Social Studies. The Science Text and GA Weekly Studies have links in the right side bar of this blog so that students and parents can review the days lessons and study for tests. I have also included the Math text book as a reference. We will not work strictly out of the Math book, but will use it as a resource.
New this year is daily instruction and practice in cursive writing. Students are not to complete any work in cursive (class work or homework) until all instruction has been completed. I will let the students and you know when they can begin writing in cursive.
Homework will be given Monday through Thursday in Math, Spelling, and Reading/ELA. Spelling/Reading homework will come home on Monday via contracts. Math will be sent home daily. Occasionally students will have Science and Social Studies homework.
I look forward to teaching, learning, and growing with each student. I know that we will have an OUTSTANDING year!!

Red Ribbon Week

Monday began our Red Ribbon Week. Each class had to create a banner that centered on the theme for the week. This year's theme was "It's up to me to be drug free". After creating our banner, each student wrote about the importance of being drug free.

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Preserving the Economy

As part of our Habitat study we have been learning how to preserve our economy. One way to do this and make a big impact is to recycle.
"Curby" and his friends from Fort Stewart came and visited FLE's 3rd grade. We learned all about recycling.

ABC Awards

Free greeting card made with Smilebox

Differentiated Instruction

Instruction takes on many different faces. We are actively learning our multiplication tables. We play multiplication games with friends, we use multiplication websites, sometimes we work individually or in groups with Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Turner and sometimes we reinforce the old fashioned way with flashcards.

Habitat Dioramas

Each student chose a habitat for their final project in our Habitat Unit. They began working on their dioramas during our September paperless day. On this day, they chose their habitat and made several plants and animals from clay. These were then placed into their final project before presentation. Here are the students proudly presenting the final project.