A.R. point prizes

Thank you to the mothers who donated their time, talents and mind 

to organize a day to redeem our AR points

for prizes.

Thanks to the PTO also.

We had a blast. 

What a great additional incentive!

Scholastic orders are due soon.

The due date is this Thursday January 28, 2016.

Please go online and order if you wish.

We might be able to qualify for some free things.... (see below)

I will close the order on Thursday night after school.

Thanks in advance to everyone who orders!

Great practice websites for ISTEP (starts Feb 29 ~ Applied Skills section ~ paper & pencil part)

Create a graph
explore the world of making and using graphs (this is what I used to make the AR points graph)
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

English/Language Arts / Math 
kinds of items and format of a standardized test
http://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/english/

Math Playground
Games, worksheets, and information about everything from geometric figures to the addition and subtraction of large numbers
http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html

Money Transactions
Count up coins to see how much money you have.
http://www.quia.com/

Parcc The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a group of states working together to develop a set of assessments that measure whether students are on track to be successful in college and their careers
http://lumoslearning.com/llwp/resources/common-core-parcc-practice-tests-and-sample-questions.html

100 third grade activities organized by Reading and Literacy skills
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/

Activities for readers to practice Context Clues, Main Idea, Locating Information, and Compare/Contrast
http://mrnussbaum.com/readingpassageindex/

Find the correct airplane to match with the contraction.
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/

Choose correct verb tenses, recognize correct verb forms, and recognize subject/verb agreement
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/

Create the plural form of words
http://www.funbrain.com/

http://www.turtlediary.com/

drag and drop skill, graphing, fractions and much more
http://mrnussbaum.com/math-for-kids/

Reading and Language Arts  interactive quizzes
http://www.iq.poquoson.org/languagearts.htm

ixl certificate

So proud of everyone!

Keep up the great work!

Coin Tossing experiment

Yesterday we conducted an experiment.

We tossed 10 coins at a time and collected data on whether they landed

on heads or tails.

Here are our results put into a data table by Leader In Me suburbs.

Our results were heads 50.4 % of the time and

tails 49.5% of the time!

Almost 50% chance of getting heads or tails!

Math is so much fun!

The schwa sound

It's hard to always identify.

It is a rule breaker... it's not a long vowel or a short vowel.

You can identify it in the dictionary with an  ə  in the pronunciation key.

It is in an unstressed syllable.

Here are some of our Spelling words with the schwa sound circled in red.

It makes a caveman "uh" sound 

like in pizza, comma, alone, idea

Remember, don't stress about it.  It's "unstressed".

You have been saying the schwa sound for years, 

you just didn't know it!

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Multiplication Table

Our class did a great job on making our own Multiplication Chart

So cool!!!!