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The day before Thanksgiving we did some fun multiplication math with Thanksgiving images.

These third graders’ multiplication skills are really growing!

Students begin arriving in our classroom every morning at 9:00 am. We start our morning meeting at 9:25. During that 25 minutes, as students are arriving, many different things are happening, as you can see here.

We’ve been studying numerical prefixes (uni-, bi-, tri-) and we matched to create tri- words and find a picture of them (trillion, triangle, trisect, etc.).

More work on patterns! Here students are matching patterns. Some were created by adding, some by subtracting, some by multiplying. It was a challenge!

Math games are a great way to practice our skills. This patterns game requires us to identify the pattern on a card. Some patterns are repeating and others are growing.

As the weather continues to get colder, we’re likely to have more indoor recess days. Hopefully we’ll keep having a good time with them!

November 10th was Sesame Street’s 54th birthday. To celebrate we watched a clip (quite an old clip) about voting since we had an election earlier that week.

When we tried leaf rubbings on our field trip to the amphitheater, they didn’t go super well. So we gave it another try a couple of days later. This time with crayons. Wow, what a difference that made! We could … Read More →

We don’t stop learning because it’s pajama day, but sometimes we do feel a little bit silly (or maybe that’s just the adults…).