Monday: We were rocking in Room 200 today. We learned more about Indiana before people lived here. We checked out the glacier line and learned that Monroe County is located south of the glacier line. That’s why we’re hillier than the northern part of our state. We started When the Circus Comes to Town with one literature circle group. Rounding seems to be getting a little easier, so that’s cause for celebration. We read a new book for our history trail, Freedom on the Menu. So powerful! An all round awesome day!
Tuesday: Today, during Writer’s Workshop, we talked about writing creatively. We want to SHOW our ideas to readers, rather than tell. We compared showing and telling writing. We’ll be looking for snapshots in the books we’re reading. We also learned more about “digging deeper” into the books we read with our reading sticky notes. In math, we used rounding to estimate sums in addition problems. Nice work today, Third Graders!
Wednesday: Quite a few third graders signed up for news and book talks at morning meeting today. We’re starting some math lessons on adding 2 and 3 digit numbers with regrouping. We used rounding to estimate if we were in the “ball park” with our sums. We helped some first graders write descriptive poems in the afternoon. We also focused on asking and answering BIG questions about Freedom On the Menu. Because of the windy weather, we took our writer’s notebooks out to the atrium. A busy, fabulous day.
Thursday and Friday: On Thursday, we worked on our “Back in Time” essays for social studies. We compared our land today with what it may have looked like after the last ice age, around 8,000 BCE. 
On Friday, the IU Biologists came and taught us about producers and consumers. We took notes on the habitats and roles of chickens, pill bugs, rabbits and a ball python named Marvin. The IU Biologists will teach 4 more times during this semester.
The veterans program was obviously AEWSOME
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