Roxie's Unsolved Riddle

In one of her recent letters, Roxie sent us the following riddle and we haven't solved it yet. Maybe you can help.

What is light as a feather, but even the strongest person cannot hold it more than a few minutes?

p.s.

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Story Elements

Today we read the Piggy Book with Mrs. Pink. We used a triangle, a rectangle and a circle to help us learn about the elements in a story. Ask your child to explain how character, setting and problem fit into the triangle.

Subtraction Strategies

Today we explored subtracting through addition. Ask your child to solve a problem like 73-28 for you using a strategy that we talked about at school. Here are some pictures of the strategies and one of our students at work.

Music to Our Ears

We continued working on learning about different music terms and notes today.

Addition Practice

Here is a site that your child can use to practice adding two and three digit numbers. They might need a pencil and paper handy to write down their strategies as they work. Encourage them to try to solve each question two different ways.
http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/grade-3-add-two-numbers-up-to-three-digits

Reading Buddies!

By Faith and Dusana

We the grade 3's have reading buddies with the JK's. They are very nice. Half of the kids in JK come to our class. And half of the JK kids to their class. We help the JK kids learn and we read to them too. Sometimes we play with them and we do art sometimes with them. We enjoy them so much.

Invented Math Strategies!

Today, we looked at the question 46 + 38 and created our own ways to solve this question. We came up with eight different ways to solve it!

Ask your child to show you how to "add tens, add ones and then combine" or to "make a friendly number and remember the payback."