What a terrific day today! So many neat and wonderful things happening in 3B!

First of all, we got a new toy to play with. It is called a Smartboard. A smartboard is like a whiteboard but more interactive. The smartboard is connected to the computer. This allows everything that is on my computer to be displayed on the board. Not only that, but the board is also touch enabled. This means that I can just the board and move things around without having to use my computer or the mouse. It was a lot of fun to play with. We are the only class in the school that has one and it will be quite a learning experience for us.

We also got a new student. Well a new student teacher. Mr. Boydan is with us for a few days this week and next week as he observes a class. He is interested in becoming a Kindergarten teacher ( a brave man!).

There was a lot of work done today as we get to the beginning of our poetry unit. We are trying to wrap a few things up in our writing before then however. In math, the students have been talking about feet, yards, tablespoons and teaspoons. Sounds a bit like a 60’s song! The students learned that 1 yard=3feet and the 1 tbsp=3 tsps. This gives us a great opportunity to use our knowledge of the 3 times tables as well as continuing our use of the solving for the unknown skill we learned about earlier this year.

Lots of exciting things happening!!!!