Mrs. Reetz's Remarkable Students from Room 26!

We started off the year in math with a place value review activity! The students were asked to make the biggest number possible and then the smallest number possible.  This was a fun and quick review activity. We will be reviewing place value this week and move on to rounding the following week.

We had some wonderful community members come and read to us for Read Across America Day! Giovanni's Mom  We especially loved having some of our own classroom family read to us! Alexis's Mom Alexis Mr. Martinez Mrs. Gault Our class also had fun dressing up for Read Across America Week. 

Third grade math standards introduce so many new concepts, especially multiplication and fractions. This week we started fractions.  Students need to understand that fractions represent part of a whole - a whole pizza, a whole piece of candy, a whole piece of paper, or a whole class.  (These are just some examples and not all that we will use to teach about fractions.) On Thursday, each team modeled a fractional unit with different items. We had a gallery walk of our exhibits and then came back together and shared what we observed. Our fractions unit will continue for the next few weeks!

Our class went on our first field trip for this year to the museum and city hall. We started out in the City Council Chamber...  and met the heads of several Sanger City departments. From there we walked over to the Sanger Depot Museum... We are looking forward to our next field trip in March!