Today Room 202 authors revised a mentor text in preparation for revising their own personal narratives soon! They worked on adding just right words to give the reader a particular feeling, such as sadness, curiosity or "grossed out" #d39cheetahs

Today kind volunteers in Room 202 worked hard to tidy up our nonfiction book bins since we will be starting our "Reading to Learn" (nonfiction) unit after Thanksgiving! #d39cheetahs

Today Room 202 mathematicians participated in a place value class with Greg Tang ! It was awesome! #d39cheetahs

This week third graders started a new unit on exploration! They wrote on graffiti walls to show where they have explored before and where they would like to explore in the future #d39cheetahs

Third graders got off to a great start with bar modeling of word problems this week #d39cheetahs

Today Room 202 writers worked with Ms Siegel to learn how to give kind, helpful feedback to peers #d39cheetahs

More Room 202 authors giving peer feedback! #d39cheetahs

Room 202 authors are in the final stages of publishing their personal narratives! #d39cheetahs

Happy Red Week from McKenzie School! Room 202 students created a banner to show what respecting and embracing differences means to them #d39cheetahs

Did you know Room 202 scientists honor a fellow member of the scientific community each month? Our January Scientist of the month is animal behaviorist and autism advocate Dr. Temple Grandin! #d39cheetahs #TempleGrandin

Today we started our new multiplication unit in Room 202 with a fun Youcubed activity: Dozens of Dice. Third graders explored the connection between repeated addition and multiplication #d39cheetahs

Who do you think was the most valuable member of the Corps of Discovery? Third graders practiced finding text evidence to support their opinions! #d39cheetahs

Today third graders played a classic multiplication partner game, Circles and Stars #d39cheetahs

Today some students had a little free time during social studies. They used camping themed dice to write a silly story about a fictional expedition #d39cheetahs

Fuzzy parentheses are just the best kind! #d39cheetahs

Third grade is off to a great start! Room 202 students worked on a collaborative art project based on the book All Are Welcome #d39cheetahs

Today during math third graders designed schools from tangram pieces. We were inspired by the book School's First Day of School by Adam Rex #d39cheetahs

Today Room 202 scientists conducted their first investigation of the year in the beautiful McKenzie garden: Do more plants have leaves with branching veins or parallel veins ? #d39cheetahs

Today Room 202 scientists observed live bird feeder cams to determine if there is a pattern to the motion of birds #d39cheetahs

Today mathematicians worked with rounding to the nearest 100 using number line models #d39cheetahs