What did you do in school today? We did worms! Today rooms 18 and 19 started our vermicomposting project. We will be collecting food scraps at lunch and feeding them to worms. The worms can digest their body weight in food each day, and their, well, "droppings" are incredibly rich compost. This will help reduce the amount of material which goes to landfills as well as enriching the soil around our school. We are very excited about this pilot project. A big thank you to Ms Heckman, shown above, a parent active in Friends of Third. Also, thanks to our administrative team represented above my our ever enthusiastic Mr. Wilson.
In other news, we started the Renzulli program today. This program is specially designed to meet the needs of gifted learners, but offers a variety of fun activities for all children. Since it is a web-based program (http://www.renzullilearning.com/) students can work on it at home as well as at school. Students enrolled themselves today and created user names and passwords. Most also completed their profiles which will guide them towards activities which are geared towards their interests and learning styles. Thanks to Mr. Abrams for helping us get set up and to Ms. Limb for letting us know about this program.
Home Studies: (1) Do Reading Strategies for the "Susan La Flesch Picotte" story in Open Court. (2) Do the Study Guide for the "Picotte" story. (3) Do the double bubble map on the back of the third page of the study guide. (4) Do the two math pages on Equivalent Fractions and Algebra. Use a "guess and check" strategy to determine the value of x. (5) Do "Line Plots," Math, pages 88-89. Be sure to read the explanation on page 88 carefully even though this is basically a review of third grade material.
In other news, we started the Renzulli program today. This program is specially designed to meet the needs of gifted learners, but offers a variety of fun activities for all children. Since it is a web-based program (http://www.renzullilearning.com/) students can work on it at home as well as at school. Students enrolled themselves today and created user names and passwords. Most also completed their profiles which will guide them towards activities which are geared towards their interests and learning styles. Thanks to Mr. Abrams for helping us get set up and to Ms. Limb for letting us know about this program.
Home Studies: (1) Do Reading Strategies for the "Susan La Flesch Picotte" story in Open Court. (2) Do the Study Guide for the "Picotte" story. (3) Do the double bubble map on the back of the third page of the study guide. (4) Do the two math pages on Equivalent Fractions and Algebra. Use a "guess and check" strategy to determine the value of x. (5) Do "Line Plots," Math, pages 88-89. Be sure to read the explanation on page 88 carefully even though this is basically a review of third grade material.
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