Author Celebration:

On Friday, our class had an Author Celebration. Third graders have been working on writing true narrative stories for several weeks. They have learned many new strategies to make their writing stronger and they learned how to revise and edit their stories to make them better. Each student chose their favorite story to publish and on Friday they read their stories to their classmates. After sharing, we had a small snack and juice toast to celebrate all their hard work.

*Thank you to everyone that brought in a snack or juice to share with the class!*

FYI:

On Friday, October 30, we will be walking in the annual Conners Emerson Halloween Parade. Students will start walking at the Village Green, up Main Street, left onto Cottage Street, then back to school. The parade will start at 2:00. Students should bring in a costume to wear that is quick and easy to get on. We ask that students do not wear masks covering their faces due to safety reasons. Also, there are no weapons of any kind allowed even if they go with a costume- please leave them at home. Students should dress warmly and wear comfortable shoes for walking. We look forward to seeing you on the sidewalks!

This week we went on two field trips. We hiked up Beehive and we became Junior Rangers. We went on a Scavenger Hunt. It was awesome!

We learned about lichen on trees. One type of lichen is called Old Man's Beard. Lichen is a fungus.

We want our families to know that tonight (Friday) is the Talent Show at 6:00 in the gym.

We are looking forward to our Author Celebration next Friday.

**This weeks blog was written by: Chase, James, and Makenna**

This week we got a sensory corner for when we are stressed out and need to calm down. We have to do ten ball tosses, ten desk jumps, and a gentle smell of peppermint. It's actually really fun and it helps us a lot. Each week the sensory choices will change.

We learned how to do Reading Responses and we got a little booklet to write our responses in. In math, we learned the count back strategy and the count on strategy to find differences between two numbers. In writing, we learn new stuff every day like how to edit our true stories. In Daily 5 reading, we did a vocabulary list packet. At the end of the week we did a Weekly Reflection.

On Friday, we had a special visitor and her name was Sarah L. Thomson. She is an author. She has written many books. She wrote Dragon's Egg. Dragon's Egg is cool. She has great ideas for writing stories. We wrote about mystical creatures with her.

We want our families to know that we are going on two field trips next week. On Tuesday, October 13th, we are hiking Beehive via the Bowl Trail. On Friday, October 16th, we are going to Thompson Island to become Junior Rangers.

We are looking forward to having our Author Celebration on Friday, October 23rd. We are excited to do more IXL and Lexia Core 5 on the iPads. We are looking forward to our 3rd grade hike.

**This weeks blog was written by: Daley, Adam, Chase, James, Makenna, Mariana, Calie, Fiona, Kaylee, Chiara, Raymond, and Zoey**

This week we switched classes during Science and Social Studies. If we were in Science, now we are in Social Studies. During French, we went to the computer lab. We have share at school. We can bring in something from home and it can be almost anything. Our jobs this week were: Table Washer (Raymond), Messenger (Fiona), Calendar (James), Weather (Zoey), Door Holder (Calie), Monitor (Makenna), Chairs (Chiara), Boards (Fisher), Magnets (Daley), Floors (Chase), iPad Inspector (Kaylee), Substitute (Adam), and Books (Mariana). On Friday, we had pajama day.

Something interesting we learned this week was how to use the iPads. We downloaded IXL (for math) and Lexia Core 5 (for word work).

We want our families to know that our book orders came today.

We are looking forward to our hike on Tuesday, October 13th.

**This weeks blog was written by: Calie, Chiara, and Raymond**