Term 3......here we go!!!!

The glorious weather during spring break left us all refreshed and ready to leap back into learning for our last three months. Tri-conferences helped us celebrate our successes and focus on our current goals. As always, it was wonderful to be a part of student, parent and teacher conversations about learning. So here's a snapshot of what we've been up to:
TEACHER CANDIDATE
Our teacher candidate, Ms. Hurdell is completing the final portion of her teaching practicum. She's been a great addition to our classroom and we're lucky to have her with us until April 20th.
MATH TARGETS
Students are continuing to work on their tri-conference goals:
We are mathematicians using our mental math strategies!
We are brave and daring problem solvers!

NEW MATH TARGETS THIS TERM INCLUDE:
 *creating, identifying and describing repeating and increasing patterns
(Patterning mathematical language: *core *predict *term *element *extend *rule)

*demonstrating and explaining the meaning of equality
(Equality mathematical language:*same/more/less, equal, not equal, balance, match, equality, inequality