Let’s explore patterns today. We’ll start with number patterns. Write the next number in the number sequence. Then name the rule for each pattern
Example: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, _____
Answer: 18. The rule is: +3
2 , 6 , 10 , 14 , 18 , _____
31 , 29 , 27, 25 , 23 , _____
5 , 14 , 23 , 32 , 41 , 50 , _____
123, 112, 101, 90, 79, _____
4, 7, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, _____
331, 324, 317, 310, 303, _____
13, 21, 29, 37, 45, 53, _____
Draw the next figure in each repeating pattern.
📚Why do you read?
📕I read for fun. 📙I read to learn. 📒Sometimes while I’m reading, I discover myself in the pages and realize I am not alone in my thoughts and feelings. 📗Sometimes while I’m reading, I’m challenged or inspired to change. 📘Other times when I am reading, I begin to wonder and question and that brings me to new things to read. 📖How about you?📚
Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston is one of my favorite read-alouds. It’s a book to read for fun. It’s an exciting adventure with an unexpected ending and the entire story – all 283 pages – is written in rhyme.
As you read you’ll discover how Katrina Katrell and Mortimer Yorgle join together on a quest to discover what has happened … “They’ve all disappeared – no one knows what to do! They’ve vanished – the Zorgles of Zorgamazoo!”
Listen to that start of the book. I bet you’ll be hooked ~ go on, read the rest of the book. You’ll be really glad you did.
Barbara Kerley said in the Author’s Note that a medallion inspired by this photograph of Walt Whitman, inspired her to write Walt Whitman – Words for America. She writes that she thought the expression on his face was so thoughtful and joyful and alive that she had to learn more. She did, and focused this picture book 
biography on Walt Whitman’s commitment to keeping the United States united during the Civil War. What a comfort he must have been to soldiers and their families. What a comfort he was to his country as he composed word sharing his deep appreciation for everyone and everything old and young, weak and strong, and foolish and wise. One man’s passion for words and country, led him to create inspired poetry demonstrating that there are many ways celebrate a nation and express love and appreciation for your country.
In 2010 there was a giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (it’s effects are still felt today) that radically changed the ecosystem there and that’s when I first heard about Olivia. She wrote this letter to the Audubon Society – a group dedicated sharing the wonders of birds and protecting them and their habitats. Olivia wanted to be the voice of the birds. She wanted to raise money to help the water and shore birds impacted by this disaster. She did, but she has not 
stopped there. She wrote and illustrated Olivia’s Birds – Saving the Gulf – the proceeds from the sale of the book continue to support Audubon Society’s 
mission. Through the book, she shares her interest and special talent in order to bring about positive change in our world. I hope she inspires you to do the same.
You have remarkable talents! Let them shine!
💕Mrs. Eaves
Father’s Day is coming next weekend! Let’s celebrate DADS with these quick writes.
Make sure to thank your dad for all he does and make sure he knows how special he is to you!
Do you remember talking about equivalence? Do you remember when we talked about balancing equations? Remember = doesn’t mean “find an answer.” Balancing equations can be a challenge, but we can do them if we slow down and think about our math process.
Maybe you’d like to practice with your family. Balance is the key. Here’s one example as a reminder:
6 + ? = 32 ÷ 4. One side of the equation has an unknown. The other side doesn’t. Start there. Think about what you know about ÷/x fact families and you know 32÷4 = 8
So that means: 6+ ? = 8
6 + 2 = 8
So 2 fills the blank.
Here are some equations for you:
8 x _____ = 4 x 10
21 – 6 = 5 x _____
5 +_____ = 18 ÷ 2
7 + 4 = 5 + _____
35 ÷ 7 = _____ +5
16 – 7 = 3 x ____
_____ – 4 = 9 x 2
Have fun challenging your thinking in new ways. If you want, leave your own equation in a comment for us to solve.
Here are some books you might enjoy ~
📖 The Friendship Garden series Jenny Meyerhof by begins with Green Thumbs Up. It is a realistic fiction series with science and social activism mixed in.
Anna has moved from green upstate New York to gray Chicago. Everything is dull, bland and lonely until a 3rd grade class project leads Anna to Shoots and Leaves, the community garden. Anna loves gardening. It takes some work, but she finally convinces Reed and Kaya that they should form a school gardening club.
One thing leads to another and soon Anna has many garden friends, delicious fresh food and lots to celebrate. After all, almost everything you need to learn about science and life can be learned around a garden.
📖 The first in a still growing series, The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands is a suspenseful fantasy adventure of friendship and intrigue set in 1665. It is challenging time to live, but Christopher Rowe has found comfort in his life. He has been accepted as an apothecary’s apprentice, with hope that he can one day be part of the Guild. He is lucky to have this position because he is an orphan (who cares about orphans) AND because his master, Benedict Blackthorn, is kind and caring.
Christopher feels his luck everyday as he works beside his master to prepare medicines and salves, potions and ointments. His best friend, Tom Bailey, is beaten and shamed everyday by his dad. He, on the other hand, is encouraged and questioned, given books of all kinds to read and taught lessons helping him to explore new ideas.
Christopher learns it is his duty to find ways to make the world a better place. But others challenge this notion. A mysterious cult is in search of something they believe the apothecaries have. They will stop at nothing to reach their goal and so, one by one, are murdering the apothecaries.
The day after Christopher’s birthday, the day after he solves the mystery of his puzzling gift, and the day after Benedict Blackthorn fall prey to the cult, Christopher receive a cryptic warning. He must break the code and uncover the key to a terrible secret that could tear the world to apart in the wrong hands.
This story is full of exciting adventure and heart-stopping suspense. You’ll be eagerly turning pages to the very end. One thing is certain – nothing is as it seems. Even when you get to the end some questions remain. What would you do in Christopher’s place?
📖 You’ll also enjoy The Silver Jaguar Society mysteries by Kate Messner. In the first, Capture the Flag, Anna, Jose and Henry come together save The Star Spangled Banner (yes, the real one that flew over Fort McHenry in the War of 1812) before it is lost forever. It’s an exciting adventure that happens in the Washington DC airport when all flights are canceled by a spring snowstorm. The good guys and the bad guys are all trapped together which makes for some pretty tense moments and some very creative thinking.
👋🏻💕☀️Keep making your mark! The world needs more of your caring, creative and inspired determination.🌎💗🎉 You are an amazing class!
This year may not have been all that we wanted, but I am grateful to have spent this time with you. You are incredible! Thank you. 🤟🏽💗🥳 Happy Summer!
👋🏻I posted a whole day, but usually the last day of school is a half day. Pick and choose what you’d most like to do. I hope you will read each other’s blogs and leave comments. So far Max, Elena, Sophie, Katherine, Vera, Edward, Brady, May and Van have completed their state post. (And I know a lot of you are almost there too! ~ Keep checking.) They’ve done some thoughtful research and writing. Van posted his mystery. It’s long, but creative and really good. Landin, Sophie, Katherine, May, Anna and Brady have left you messages inspired by Say Something! Please let them know what you think. And finally, I hope you will make time to listen to Be You! and the song For Good. 🤟🏽🤗💗
👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! Oh my! There are so many things to share ~ and that doesn’t include all the usual things like ~ The Name Game, math projects with Mrs. Douglas, chapter read-aloud, inquiry, magazine writing… Here is our door illustrating the poem, Ring Around the World by Annette Wynne and pictures from our Secret Friend Celebration and from 3E’s Inquiry Wonderland.
Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice. After seeing these pictures, what will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💗
Please take some time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼💕👊🏻
Morning Meeting– Listen to Be You! and know that the mark you have left on my heart and what you have added to my life will be with me forever!
Take a break, get a snack and move around.
If you’d like, here is Go Noodle video: move to Celebrate. Please listen to a favorite song. I’ve been thinking of it and you often this week. It is from, Wicked and it is called For Good. The words are for you. Your handprint, is indeed, on my heart. ✋🏻💗🤚🏻 Because I’ve known you, I have been changed for good!
🌎 Social Studies and Reading📚
📖🇺🇸Shared Reading – We’ll finish up reading about the country with The Scrambled States of America Talent Show. What part does your state have in the talent show?
Take a break, go outside, run around, sing, play a game, make some art.📚
Independent Reading – Keep reading each and every day! Find a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book.
At the end of reading, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.📖
Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder. Relax.
✏️Writer’s Workshop – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that. If you’d like to work on your state research and blog post, that’s a fine thing to do.📝
If you’re ready for a new writing idea, here are today’s Quick Writes:
Read the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping. At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going. It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.
🔢Math Workshop – Today try one of these Problem Searches – but only if it feels fun to you! It is a word search type of puzzle, but with math equations hidden in the grid instead of words. The problems only read forward. Searches with 1 have only horizontal and vertical equations. Searches labeled with 2 also have diagonal equations. These are surprisingly tricky. Be patient with yourself! Try Multiplication Problem Search 1 or Multipliation Problem Search 2 . Practice division with Division Problem Search 1 or Division Problem Search 2. This is a super challenge with all 4 operations, horizontal, vertical and diagonal equations: All 4 Operations Problem Search.
UA’s for today…
Spanish ~ I know Señora Murphy has posted some new lessons for you to explore.
And here’s a new message from Mrs. Oliver:
Dear Third Grade Families,
👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! Here’s another fun accomplishment. Our Super Scientists Celebration! We conducted experiments to make raisins dance, create tie-dye milk and watch a Skittles’ rainbow appear in between presenting our Who Am I? projects.
Morning Work – After looking at these pictures, what will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💗
Take some time to read each others’ blogs and leave a comment or two. Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼💕👊🏻
Morning Meeting– 
Listen to Say Something.
Your voice matters! What message will you share? What are your hopes and dreams? What would you like to say to your class? With your art and words, create a mini-poster share with your classmates. Take a picture of it and post it on your blog. If you can’t do that, email it to me, and I will add it to a post it for you.
Let’s send each other off with grateful hearts and caring wishes.
If you’re not sure what this means, there is an example on my blog.💕🌎☀️ Don’t let anyone tell you you’re not strong enough, or smart enough or brave enough! Look at what you have done this year in 3rd grade. 😎🤩🥳
Take a break, get a snack and move around. If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Hip Hop Astronaut and relax and reflect with Celebrate the Little Things.
🌎 Social Studies and Reading📚
📖🇺🇸Shared Reading – Listen to Austin Lost In America. What fun fact is shared about your state as Austin travels through it to find his forever home?
Take a break, go outside, run around, sing, play a game, make some art.📚
Independent Reading – Keep reading each and every day! Find a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book. Reading about your state counts during this time too! 🏜🇺🇸⛰🗽🤠 You might want to read one of your classmates’ state post. Max, Sophie, Vera, Edward, and Brady have shared the Wonders of their states.
At the end of reading, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.📖 If you read about your state. Share an interesting fact.
Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder. Relax.
✏️Writer’s Workshop – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that. If you’d like to work on your state research and blog post, that’s a fine thing to do.📝
If you’re ready for a new writing idea, here are today’s optional Quick Writes:
Read the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping. At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going. It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.
🔢Math Workshop – Start with this warm-up Multiplication, Division and Perimeter Practice and Operations and Equations.
Next, here are today’s problems to choose from. These are all solved with multiplication. See if there are two that feel like just right challenges. You can solve them in your journal or on a piece of paper. It would be most helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted. Thanks!
Justin has a bike shop. A new bicycle cost $215 dollars. Justin sold 6 bicycles last week. How much money did Justin make?
Brady and 5 of his friends went to the arcade. They each one 215 tickets. They wanted to get a badminton set for 1250 tickets. Were they able to bring the badminton set home?
Katherine shot and arrow 50 yards. Estella shot her arrow three times as far. How far did Estella’s arrow go?
There are 13 M&M’s in each mini-package of the candy. How many M&M’s would there be if each student in 3E had their own bag?
A pencil costs 70¢. How much do 18 pencils cost?
A family went on a road trip. The car traveled 60 miles per hour for 7 hours. How many miles did the family travel? They were going on an 481 mile trip from North Hampton to Washington, DC. How many more miles do they have to drive?
If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing your math facts in all four operations.
UA’s for today…
Spanish ~ I know Señora Murphy has posted some new lessons for you to explore.
Library ~ Here’ a note from Mrs. McCombs about book returns and the online book fair:
I hope you’re having fun learning about your state. 
I am looking forward to learning about the places you recommend visiting! 
Thanks for sending your DOT pictures along!
Thank you for all you do each day.!
Mrs. Eaves
👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! I thought we’d continue looking back on our year. Here is Dot Day 2019! Think of how you’ve made your mark this year! How can these memories spark feelings of gratitude?
Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice. What will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💗
Take time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼💕👊🏻
Morning Meeting– Listen to The Dot and Emily Arrow’s Dot Song. This video of the song teaches the hand motions that go along with it.
On the International Dot Day site there is a collection of Celebri-dots that have been created by different children’s authors and illustrators. Here’s a collection by some you might know:
3E Celebri-DOT Challenge ~ Will you make your mark and share it with the class? Please take a moment to inspire your classmates and encourage your families to make THEIR MARKS by making a DOT of your own to share with the world. Please take a photograph of you with your dot and a close-up of your dot to email to Mrs. Eaves by early Sunday, June 7. This collection will be used to create a weekly summery of our school year together. If you’re not sure what I mean about the photographs, you can go to my blog for an example. If you’re not sure about a dot, scroll to the end of the post to see our dot gallery.
It will be wonderful to have everyone included and fabulous to see everyone’s faces all together. 💗
Take a break, get a snack and move around. If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Road Trippin’ USA and relax with Find Peace .
🌎 Social Studies and Reading📚
📖🇺🇸Shared Reading – Listen to The United Tweets of America and Pie Is For Sharing. They’re both short. Stop the “Tweets” video on your state’s page. I think you’ll be able to read it. You may learn some new fun facts.
Take a break, go outside, run around, sing, play a game, make some art.📚
Independent Reading – Keep reading everyday. Find a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book. You can use this time to read for your state project as well.
At the end of reading, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.📖 If you chose to read about your state, describe the most interesting fact you collected today.
Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder. Relax.
✏️Writer’s Workshop – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that. If you’d like to work on your state research and blog post, that’s a fine thing to do now.📝
If you’d like a new writing idea, here are today’s optional Quick Writes:
Read the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping. At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going. It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.
🔢Math Workshop – Start with this warm-up Multiplication, Division and Perimeter Practice and Naming Fractions.
Next, here are today’s problems to choose from. They are all subtraction problems. See if there are two that feel like just right challenges. You can solve them in your journal or on a piece of paper. It would be most helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted. Thanks!
Sophie and Landon set up a Lemonade stand. They started the day with 65 cups. At the end of the day they had 8 left. How many cups of lemonade did they sell? If each cup sold for 25¢, how much money did they make?
Vera and Landin were feeding apples to the horses. They started with 361 apples. They fed the horses 228 apples. How many apples did they have left?
There are 265 Legos in a box. Brady took 97 out. How many Legos are left in the box?
Edward had $4,876 in his savings account at the bank. He withdrew$1,895. How much money does he have in his savings account now?
There are 8,796 children living in Plainville. 6,989 of the children are old enough to attend school. How many children are not old enough for school yet?
By how much is 3,756 less than 5,433?
If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing your math facts in all four operations.
UA’s for today…
Challenges and Phys. Ed. Here is the link to their website if you need some suggestions for how to stay active and fit.
🇺🇸🏕🤠I hope you had a great day! Remember to step boldly to make your amazing mark on the world!🥳☀️🌎
💕🙌🏻🌈Mrs. Eaves
Here’s 2019’s Dot Gallery!
👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! I thought it would be be fun to look back at some of our accomplishments.
This collection of pictures is from our first week of school. In some of them we were working on small group challenges ~ Helping Harry and building collections of 100 and in others, reading and writing. Hopefully they’ll inspire some memories you’re grateful to keep.
Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice. What will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💗
Please take some time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼💕👊🏻
Morning Meeting – I thought you might like this favorite. Happy Thought ~ by Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Next, listen to Happy Dreamer. Close to the end the boy says, “I’m really good at being me. A dreamer surprising, caring, funny, gentle 
smart… There are so many ways to be a happy dreamer? (What kind of dreamer are you?)”. Will you share a description of you and the kind of dreamer you are in a comment or on a blog post? What hopes and dreams do you have for the summer? We look forward to reading your reflections later today.🥳
Just for fun ~ here is a Happy Dreamer Fortune Teller
Take a break, get a snack and move around. If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Wadillyocho 😀 (you’ll notice it’s similar to our gathering song) and stretch with Maximo .
🌎 Social Studies and Reading📚
📖🇺🇸Shared Reading –
I hope you’ll enjoy learning how the Star Spangled Banner was created by listening to Our Flag was Still There and also thinking about what our flag stands for by listening to the short poem, Blue Sky White Stars. Think about how this connects to your U.S. geography project.
Take a break, go outside, run around, sing, play a game, make some art.📚
Independent Reading – Keep reading each and every day! Find a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book. You can use this time to read for your state project as well.
At the end of reading, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.📖 If you chose to read about your state, describe the most interesting fact you collected today.
Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder. Relax.
✏️Writer’s Workshop – Please continue to write each day. It can be writing for your state project, finishing a story you began a while ago, or working on your state research and blog post.📝
If you’d like a new writing idea, here are today’s optional Quick Writes:
Write a letter to your parents thanking them for all they’ve done to help you survive remote learning.
What is something you accomplished this year that you are proud of?
What was the nicest thing someone in our class did for you this year?
What do you like most about summer? Explain why.
What are your favorite things to do outside during the summer?
Read the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping. At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going. It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.
🔢Math Workshop – Today’s warm-ups review area and perimeter Sandbox problems and Naming and Labeling Fractions.
The answers to last Friday’s problems were: 1 P ( or A. I didn’t write it clearly) 2. P, 3. A, 4. P, 5. A, and 6. A
Next, here are today’s problems to choose from. Today’s problems all use division. See if there are two that feel like just right challenges. You can solve them in your journal or on a piece of paper. It would be most helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted. Thanks!
60 children come for tryouts. They were divided into teams of 5. How many teams were there?
Vera has stored 18 eggs in boxes. If there are three books, how many eggs must go in each box?
Elena wants to fold 1,000 paper cranes. She can make 8 cranes a day. If Elena has already made 304 cranes, how many days will it take for Elena to make the remaining cranes?
There are 64 M&M’s in the dish. 4 children are going to share them. How many M&M’s does each child get?
Brady has 92 crickets. He is feeding them to 4 geckos. How many crickets does each gecko get?
Pens come in packs of 6. If the art room needs 78 pens, how many packs of pens should Mrs. Nardone buy?
If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing your math facts in all four operations.
UA’s for today…
Art – Click out the new lessons. Here’s what Mrs. Nardone has for you to explore in Art today.
Technology – You’ll find the lessons Mrs. Herlihy left here at this link open the lesson that is next for you.
I hope you had a great day today. We’re almost done. I hope you enjoy seeing things we did 9 months ago! Time flies!
Thanks for being awesome!
Mrs. Eaves