Dear Friends of J3T: Welcome back from our February break! I heard some fun stories from the time away. I was excited to see the children today, and to jump back into the learning. The two weeks leading up to break were full of excitement with Global Play Day (WHICH WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!!!) , seeing the Lion King, Friendship day, bake sale, and our open house. I included photos in the slideshow above. UNIT STUDIES/LITERACY Now that we are back, we are completing our unit on Biomes by finishing up our reports of information, shadow puppet show about the book One Day in the Tropical Rainforest, and creating comiclifes about animal adaptations. Next week we will begin our new unit on Creative Expression, so stay tuned for the letter telling you all about our new and exciting unit! MATH: In math, we kicked off a new Context for Learning unit called: The Big Dinner. The focus of this unit is the development of multiplication, including automatizing the facts, using the ratio table, and developing the distributive property with large numbers. We will use a variety of models to help solidify the student's conceptual understanding of multiplication, moving into standard algorithms. For today's lesson, the children solved the problem of buying a 24 lb. turkey. You can see the task below.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING: Happiness Habits
This week we are introducing the happiness habit: Taking Care of Our Bodies. This habit includes exercise and nutrition. This article mentions a bit about the connections between exercise and happiness, and Carl Massy's Blog: The World's Biggest Gym, also goes into nutrition and exercise and how they benefit our moods. This video talks about foods that can help to boost your happiness. Those two are, of course, just a tiny bit of information available on the topic! On a final note, a new homestudy menu went home today. IT is also in the homestudy page, accessible by the link above. That's all the news from me this week. I hope you get out to enjoy some of this warmer weather. Sincerely, Ms. Erin Threlfall
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Henry
2/22/2016 02:31:20 pm
Thank you for sharing Erin! I really like your initiative focused on nutrition and health. the happiness habit is such a wonderful idea, I wish my third grade teacher had tackled such interesting and highly relevant habits.
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Erin
4/11/2016 08:06:41 pm
Thank you for the feedback, Henry! It is a great pleasure to include these aspects in our learning.
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Jennifer
2/23/2016 02:33:23 am
Erin - thank you for brining such interesting relevant topics to the classroom that we adults have to tackle every day. Happiness and health! I love the focus on healthy eating and activity. It has to start when they are young and you have innovative ways to make it fun and helping them to "own" their decisions and outcomes. A big thank you. Jennifer (Isabella's mom)
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Erin
4/11/2016 08:09:25 pm
Jennifer- Thank you! As a mom, I know how challenging it can be to have the healthy eating talks with children. It takes a village!! The more we can emphasise healthy lifestyle choices when our children are younger, the better chances we have of developing healthier adults!
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