Fire Prevention Day!

On Wednesday, we had Fire Prevention Day at SCS!  This year the third graders had the opportunity to go into the Fire Prevention trailer (which had a mock kitchen and bedroom).  In both of these rooms, they talked about fire hazards and what to do in case of a fire.  The highlight for many children was climbing out the window of the trailer! Be sure to ask your child about Fire Prevention Day and talk with your child about your fire escape plan at home.  Here is a video from Fire Prevention Day...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ij1akPPbI

Our Esprit third graders have been working very hard these past few weeks! They are gradually becoming more comfortable with our routines and the schedule.  In Reader's Workshop, we are still building a reader's life.  This week we talked about recommending books to friends and sharing about books with partners.  We have found that books are much better when we can share funny parts and interesting parts with a partner. Next week, we will start a whole class read aloud of Stone Fox.  We will be using this read aloud as a way to build comprehension skills such as, retelling, predicting, and envisioning.

In writer's workshop, we continue to talk about ways that writer's get ideas.  This week we created a heart map with important events, symbols, and ideas.  We also brainstormed a list of important people in our lives.  Both of these lists can be used when the children are struggling for writing ideas.  Next week, we will begin working on the structure of paragraphs: topic sentences, detail sentences, and a concluding sentence.

In our social studies unit of Shelburne Story, we began learning about the Abenaki Native Americans.  By reading several articles, we learned about Native American artifacts, how the Abenaki lived in this area, and about the bodies of water that were important to the Abenaki.  Be sure to ask your child about his or her new learning from this unit so far.

We began our first Bridges Math Unit this week by practicing addition and subtraction and coming up with strategies to help us remember and use these facts fluently. We also learned two games called Target Twenty and Make the Sum to help us build addition and subtraction fact fluency.

Just a reminder we will be holding Parent Conferences during October.  Please check our Esprit Google Site to sign up. Thanks!