 Field Trip Success! Wow, What a Day! We...ran, hollered, looked for gold, had a Hatfield/McCoy feud, made "finger candles", shot a bow and arrow, threw a tomahawk, ran some more, had a tug of war, slid down a three story slide, hollered some more, visited an Indian village, rode in a cattle wagon, sailed down a zip line, ran, looked for Runnin Roger's marbles, watched Mountain Man Les make an arrowhead, hollered, crawled through the mouse house, learned a rain dance, heard many stories, beat on a drum, and so much more. Ask your child about all of it. Check out the video below.Frontier Theater 2012
Red Ribbon Week is NEXT week:
The costume days are as follows:
Monday – “I Have the Power to Be Drug Free” (Superhero
Attire)
Tuesday – “I’m Voting for My Future” (Red, White,
and Blue Attire)
Wednesday –“Drugs Won’t Get in the Way of My Dreams
(Pajamas)
Thursday – “These Paws Don’t Touch Drugs” (Willard
Tiger Attire)
Friday - NO SCHOOL (Our weekly spelling test will be on Thursday.)
It's not too late to schedule a parent/teacher conference. This will be an opportunity to pick up your child's grade card and for us to meet face to face. We will have 15 minutes to discuss your child's success and ask/answer questions. Please contact the school office for a time. 742-4639  Ask your child about our new read aloud; Sarah, Plain and Tall.
 M & M's make everything better, even math. Ask your child about making our pictographs with M&M's. Other activities this week included... making "maaaavelous" middles in writing (ask your child about the picture of the cool, awesome dog), the end of Ruby Holler , making words with the ou and ow sound, recreating the water cycle and so much more.Thank you for sending in the field trip permission slips and money. We are looking forward to a crisp, sunny, autumn day for the frontier theater. Please dress your children in tennis shoes and send a jacket. We hope to leave the school as close to 8:45 as possible. We will leave Marshfield around 1:00 expecting to arrive back at Willard East at 2:00. As the school handbook states, students must ride the bus to the field trip, but if you would like to sign your child out, they may ride home with you from Marshfield. Please do not take your child until you have signed out with the teacher. Students will be counted absent from the time you sign them out. Thank you for signing up for a parent/teacher conference time. Conferences will be held on Tuesday, October 23 and Thursday, October 25. The link below will take you to a google spreadsheet to sign up for a time if you still need one. I'm hoping to meet with every family. Conferences will last approximately 15 minutes. If we see that more time is needed we will schedule a follow up appointment for the next week.Conference Sign-Up Link
Time Is Running Out: Today is the deadline to sign up for "Life with Laura" through the Willard University. You can sign up through today and bring your $25 the first night of classes (Monday, October 15). For More Information...Life with Laura DescriptionWillard University Information and RegistrationQuick Calendar Reminders: Field trip Thursday, October 18, Parent Teacher Conferences Tuesday October 23 and Thursday October 25, No School Friday October 26, Fall Party Wednesday October 31
 The Willard District "Tiger Tech Conference" was the reason for no school on Monday. Teachers had the opportunity to attend a wide variety of technology workshops to learn the about the newest devices, applications and strategies for the classroom. Much of the technology that your child uses in the classroom each day was something that I've learned from attending previous Tiger Tech Conferences. This year I was asked to host a session and introduce others to student blogging. Our own Kidblog pages were used as examples. Teachers from all over our district had the opportunity to visit our Kidblog site and see our work. I told the kids that they were "Willard celebrities" on Monday. That statement got us to thinking about the bright futures ahead of us. In our Friday letter, students were asked to write about what they would like to be in the future. This also tied in nicely to our social studies discussions about our community businesses. I've created a "wordle" to illustrate our answers. Click on the link below. (Just in case you aren't familiar with wordle...the more times a word is typed, the larger it appears within the picture.) "Our Future" Wordle
Students have received their field trip permission form for our adventure to the Frontier Theater on October 18. Permission slips and money must be returned by October 8. Please let me know if financial assistance is needed. In the event that your child did not bring home a permission form, you can print another by clicking below. (Cash Only Please)Field Trip Permission SlipMark Your Calendars: Willard East Skate Night will be Tuesday, October 2 from 6-8pm at Skateland. Look for information about this in your child's take home folder.
Willard East Write A Check Campaign Has Been Extended Through October!
Ask Your Child About: consonant blends in our spelling words, coin combinations to make $1.00, FINISHING our community pop-up books, the difference between the four types of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory and imperative), addition combinations to practice at home, our first tiger pride assembly, our new school t-shirts and our all school picture!
We have found that there are a lot of important "3's" in third grade. The three branches of government and the three parts of the water cycle will be lessons in the future. But for now, we are learning about the three types of writing; narrative, informational and opinion writing and how to skip count by three to help with our multiplication facts.
Ask your child to sing the three's to the tune of Jingle Bells. Also, ask them about the differences between narrative and informational writing.  I'm often asked, "What should we be working on at home?" I will always always always suggest reading at home. It doesn't matter at what level your child reads, reading at home will help all children; out loud, to themselves, with a family member, to the dog, in the kitchen, in a boat, with a goat, YOU GET THE PICTURE....also any kind of text; grandma's recipes, mom's " how to build a doghouse" book, Sunday school lessons, Greatest Basketball Moments book, anything. The next suggestion for something to do at home is count money, real money. When grandpa is emptying his pocket change, when mom is counting out lunch money, when getting money for the concession stand at the ball game, any time is a good time to count money. It helps with the obvious lessons on money but also with skip counting (multiplication) and you can even squeeze in a lesson or two about responsibility. Our next math unit will focus on two digit addition and subtraction and counting money.
Speaking of money...Don't forget our Willard East "Write a check campaign". Click here for more details.FYI: Field Trip to the Frontier Theater will be 10/18/12! (permission slip will be coming home soon)
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