Theme Tina and Rounding

Today we had "Theme Tina" as a class visitor to introduce "theme" within a story. The kids just loved her! She explained that theme is THE MEssage (overall) that the author is trying to make. Her umbrella represents the big idea of theme and its components, with many of the possible themes of stories coming off of it. They loved her hair which was colorful and different like the many possible themes that you will come across in stories. 

Rounding is a new concept for third graders. I introduced the concept by using a sentence strip and making it into a number line. Once the number line was created we glued it to make a roller coaster. We can think of rounding like a roller coaster with 5 at the top. Once it hits 5 or more the car will roll down the hill toward the ten. This provides the kiddos with a visual and hands-on experience of rounding numbers and when to round down or round up. 

At Pride Rally on Friday we won the P.E. award for having no marks on our class chart. 

Thank You to Mr.Zhou for being a Watch D.O.G.S volunteer on Friday. 

Supporting your favorite college on college spirit day is a blast! 

If you have an questions please let me know. 

Thank You, 

Staci Sellers