Day 1 at #CiderMillSchool was a #success! Our #teachers are #superheroes! So are #ourstudents and their families! #wiltonwayct

We have some amazing readers in Cann third grade this year! Such an amazing first day already- whether it be reading on zoom or here in the classroom!

We loved doing a socially distanced morning meeting this morning!

Whether on zoom on in the classroom, today we learned how to edit our pieces for spelling using our word walls! jeanjoy Alyssa Peterson

We are loving the fall weather today as it allows us to socially distance for snack outside and talk to ALL of our cohort A and B friends in mine and Alyssa Peterson’s class! So happy to have so many friends back together again!

Now that our two cohorts have combined, as well as our desire to continue to get to know our remote learners, we are working on our Me Maps! We decide on the categories we want to know about each other and then share one each morning meeting! #wiltonwayct #cidermill

Today we started word study groups at our own levels for the first time this year! Social distancing doesn’t stop us from doing small group sorts- we are becoming pros at using our tech tools! #wordstheirway #jamboard #zoom #wiltonwayct #cidermill

We got to know each other as readers today by conducting reader partner interviews! #cidermill #wiltonwayct

To remind ourselves of the community here at CM, we watched the ‘Lean on Me’ video that our staff made during quarantine in the spring for our students. Our new 3rd graders LOVED spotting their teachers this year! #cidermill #wiltonwayct

Our scientists are hard at work designing playground prototypes to show all of their knowledge from our Forces in Motion unit. We are loving this end of unit performance task! #wiltonwayct #cidermill

This week, we started our mystery reading unit! We were SO excited to start acting like detectives with our reading partners about our very own mystery texts! #wiltonwayct

This week we started our poetry unit in writing! We kicked off the unit by writing a ‘Poetry Is...’ poem together. We each contributed a line! #wiltonwayct

We had SO much fun playing in the snow today at recess! Here are three of our friends each building a body part of our class snowman! #wiltonwayct

More snowman fun- now by the boys! #wiltonwayct

Practicing our word work skills with fun winter words! #wiltonwayct

One of Ms. Peterson’s Ss made the Cann 3 teachers personalized sweatshirts with our names, in our favorite colors and with Buzzby wearing a mask! We have the BEST Ss! 🥰#wiltonwayct #pajamaday ⁦Alyssa Peterson⁩ ⁦jeanjoy⁩

Yesterday, we presented the poems we wrote in small groups! We were told a season and a landscape to describe in a poem, but could only use our senses/description to describe it- not name it! Then, the class guessed based on the mental movie the poem created in their minds!

Our rockstars today! #readingrocks #cidermill