Welcome to my classroom and to third grade!
I enjoyed meeting all my families during supply drop off and ice cream social. Thank you to our wonderful PTA for providing such an important and fun evening for our families!
My blog will be updated weekly to reflect our learning skills and upcoming events for our classroom and our school. I do not always update school events, I ask that you check our Kathy Caraway website for school related events.
The first week of school we are getting to know each other and will be working on building our classroom community.
Writing- We will be completing some "Getting to Know Me" assignments and setting goals for third grade. We will also fill in a graphic organizer on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" filled with snapshot pictures. This activity will extend into next week when we complete our first big writing assignment.
Reading- We will read "Each Kindness" book and make our social contract for the classroom. We will focus on how we want to be treated by each other and how they want me to treat them. How they think I want to be treated and finally how we want to treat each other when there is a conflict. We will read "Spaghetti in a Hot Dog" and do a classmates connection activity with making a Venn Diagram and discovering how we are the same and different. We will do an activity on making mistakes and learn that we aren't perfect and making mistakes is OK and helps us grow as learners. We will also read "The Important Book" and make a class book. We will also take a reading assessment to help me get to know your child better as a reader.
Science/S.S.- We will read "Fantastic Elastic Brain" and have a discussion on how learning helps us to stretch our brain and tie that into perseverance and determination. We will set up our science notebooks and the students will brainstorm why science is important and what is a scientist? We will go over our safety science contract and end the week with a fun M&M Science experiment.
Math - We will read "Math Curse" and discuss where do we see math in our real world? We will review second grade skills with math centers and take a math pretest to let me know how your child thinks as a mathematician. During our math time we will do a "Save Fred" activity where the children will learn to work with others to complete an assignment they can't do on their own.
This week I will introduce the "Me Museum" assignment to be completed at home. Please look in the Tuesday folder for more information on this assignment. I will send out a picture for an example in an email with a due date after I explain to the students how to complete the activity.
I'm looking forward to a great year with your child. If you have any questions, please contact me at 512-464-5559 or email me at Rachel_hadden@roundrockisd.org
