Practice, practice, practice

We are taking some time this week to practice the TAKS test. This is first time that your kiddo will be taking this kind of test, so we are starting off with really focusing on using their strategies that we go over daily. We use the scores as a guidline for us with specific skills, but we still have a lot to learn. Ask your child about the specific strategies that we use in Math and in Reading. They should be able to teach you something new and make themselves feel good about teaching you something.

Math- We use UPS check




Reading- We use BDA (stoplight)



Please email me if you would like me to email you a copy of what we use, so you are familiar with our strategies.

Book Report

Book Reports are due this Friday! I hope that you've been working hard.
If you need a reminder of what to do, please check out the teacher website to find the book report info.
Book report document
Good luck!
I can't wait to hear and learn about all of these famous people.

Rolling right along!

We have a had a great start to our year! Thanks to all who have visited our blog.

Something new....
We are starting Study Island. Today the students were given their log in information.
If they forget it is their: lunchnumber@anderson password is: birthday (mmddyy)
They are to complete a 20 question test by Friday.

We also started guided reading! Its one of my favorite things! I get to meet with each of my groups and talk about the books that they read. Each week they will get a lesson plan. The lesson plan lets them know everything that they have to do for the week. I check the reading folders daily and meet with them as often as I can. So, be on the lookout for these two things specifically this week.

Make it a great day!

Welcome Back!

I am "Fired Up" for a great new year! I hope that you are too!

Leave me a message so I know that you visited our blog.
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Last Day

The school year has flown by and I can't believe we're at the end. It was a great year and I will miss you all so much. Remember to memorize those Multiplication facts, so you can impress your 4th grade teachers.
Please be sure to come back and visit me next year!
Lots of love!
Ms. Cone

Feel free to leave me a message to let me know what you're up to this summer!

Field Day

Its so hard to believe that the school year is almost over! When Field Day comes that signals that the end of the year is near.
We had a super, fun day! Here are some pictures from our day.
Enjoy!

Vocabulary Parade

Anderson had its 1st Vocabulary Parade on Friday. Each student and teacher were to dress as their favorite vocabulary word. We all paraded around the school. It was a lot of fun seeing what each word looked like.

Here are the 3rd grade teachers:
Ms. Cone- "hibernation", Ms. Theilen- "camouflage", Ms. Wanasek- "elderly", Ms. Percle- "flood", Ms. McCoy- "monocot", Ms. Zadina- "childhood"



I chose one of our science vocabulary words.