Third Grade Squad

LITERACY Writing:  The students will begin their good copy for their elaborative detail writing project about the season of fall. The focus of this project was the students using their five senses to write with elaborative detail. Last week, the students were asked to find autumn specific words or phrases that and organized these words/phrases into a chart. From this chart, students were encouraged to use various sentence starters to make their paragraph come to life. The 3D students were so proud to share their extremely descriptive paragraphs with the class. They were fantastic! Reading/Phonics: Congratulations to the first 3D student to read a total of 600 minutes at home!!!! She hopped in her car and drove to the first pit stop - Canada! The grade 3s continued to work on identifying and using short vowel sounds in two syllable words. The students get several opportunities to work with the spelling list words throughout the week and are given an informal test at the end

LITERACY Writing: 3D students have started on a new writing project about fall. The focus of this project is using our five senses to write with elaborative detail. I started off the week by reading the book Let It Fall   by to the class. The students were asked to listen to fall/autumn specific words or phrases and we compiled a list on chart paper. This upcoming week, students will be put into groups to read and look through other fall books to gather words and/or phrases for each of the five senses. This will be the starting block of their descriptive paragraph about fall.  Handwriting: The students have begun practicing a new set of letters in cursive handwriting: the "kite string" letters. These letters include i, t, u, w, j, p. Reading/Spelling: The students received their first spelling list of the year! The focus this week was on short vowel sounds in double syllable words.  The students get several opportunities to work with the spelling list words