Last week and this week we are immersed in a Touch Typing intensive lead by Susan. It is laying a solid foundation with an emphasis on correct finger placement, posture, and hand/wrist stretching. We have seen Temescalians really hit their stride this week! Next week we will be assigning typing practice for homework and will […]
The Halloween parade last week really got us in the spirit of the holiday . . . we loved seeing all of the creativity and fun costumes on display. Thank you to all the grown ups who came and cheered us along. How much excitement can we pack into one day? Well last Friday we […]
Design Challenge: How would you adapt your house to prepare for a weather event that could result in flooding? Third graders have been learning about weather, hurricanes, landforms, and the water cycle, so they were well prepared to grapple with their first design challenge using materials from our Maker Nook. Julianne also leant us supplies […]
Our work with addition and subtraction in math extended to measurement and adding up different lengths. Temescalians were tasked with finding items in the classroom that were a specific length in centimeters. They could only look for items that had straight edges. As Temescalians began adding the lengths together, they were applying the addition strategies […]
Thank you to all of the grown ups that took the time to meet with us during parent-teacher conferences last Thursday and Friday. We enjoyed connecting and partnering with you and learned even more about your children. Teaming up is the best way to help each students bloom and thrive in third grade and conferences were a […]
We really enjoyed performing and making cornhusk dolls with our Grandfriends! In writing workshop we are putting the finishing touches on our Thankful Expositories and began writing About the Author before we publish these amazing five-paragraph essays. We studied About the Author pages by two of our favorite authors, J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl, and […]
Digging deeper into learning! As we continued our number sense unit in math, we explored different ways to add and subtract with regrouping. A big part of math is not just being able to do the computations, but to understand the concepts behind them as well. For example, it’s great if you can add 102 […]
