After weeks of brainstorming, planning, writing, conferencing, revising, and publishing we have finished our Historical Fiction writing! Historical fiction takes place at a specific time and place in history. It includes fictional characters that deal with problems that could have really happened. Today our proud authors had the opportunity to read their finished book to classmates. We will save these writing pieces to share and send home at the parent/teacher/student conference in March.

During Inquiry we have been learning about careers. Each learner researched a job or career that interested them. We made Google Slides to share the information with others. This week learners have been presenting their Career Research to the class.  Ask your third grader to present to you at home!

Today we had a fun afternoon! We did some Valentine themed math with little candy hearts. Partners estimated how many hearts were in their boxes, used them to measure, sorted hearts, graphed by color and more. We passed out Valentines, enjoyed some refreshments, and played Candy Heart Bingo.  Miss Grace enjoyed us for the festivities too.

Read Across America Week is coming up Feb. 27-March 3.

Join us for some fun Spirit Days. Each day students will listen to a story that corresponds to the theme of the day.

-24- “Hair Love Day”- Wear it fancy, silly, beautiful or crazy!

-25- “Llama, Llama, Red Pajama” Day- Wear pj’s and bring a stuffed friend to read to.

-26- “Hat Day”- Wear your favorite hat.

-27- “Reading Day”- Wear clothing with letters or words for others to read.

-28- “Show Your Knowledge Day”- Wear a Brecknock shirt or blue and gray colors. We are all experts in something! You will write what you are in expert in at school (could be anything!)

On Friday, 2/3 we had Fort Day. This was a class reward for filling our dinosaur jar because we had “Dino-mite” behavior. Learners brought blankets, beach towels, pillows and stuffed animals. During indoor recess the building began.  There was lots of planning, problem solving, engineering, and laughter while groups of learners built forts around the room.

After lunch we put the finishing touches on the forts.

Our first afternoon activity was reading inside our forts.

Next we did our flashcard practice and math racers.

Finally we did our math independent work in our computers. We were finishing up our IXL graph skills.

At the end of the day there was lots of teamwork to get the classroom back to normal.