Third Grade Squad

LITERACY Reading: Congratulations to this student for reaching the second pitstop by reading a total of 1200 minutes!!!! Handwriting:  The students have begun to practice a new group of cursive letters...the Hills and Valleys group. The letters N and M belong to this group.  Phonics and Grammar:  This week, the students continued to work with verbs. They were asked to look at four images and jot down two verbs for each image. Once this was completed, the students drew a picture of themselves and had to describe what they were doing (verbs!) in the drawing. The chilly weather and snow falling down inspired our "Making Words" mystery word: SNOWFLAKE. Students are given a set of scrambled letters and asked to create 2,3,4,5,6 letter words using only the letters provided (ie. A E O F L K N S W). Once the students come up with a few of these words independently they pair up with a peer and try to come up with some more words together. Finally, we come together ...

LITERACY   Writing: The students started on their first entry of their All About Me book. The first entry is about "My Family".The grade 3s are following the paragraph structure we have been using in class: topic sentence, detail sentences and a concluding sentence. As a class, we brainstormed possible questions they might want to answer when writing detailed sentences about their families. They are learning to edit their own work once they are done writing such as checking for capital letters, appropriate punctuation, spell checking and making sure all of their sentences make sense.  Reading:  Congratulations to these 3D students for reaching a total of 600 minutes of reading at home!!!! They hopped in their car and drove to the first pit stop - Canada. AND a congratulations to these two students for reaching the second pitstop by reading a total of 1200 minutes!!!! AND a big congratulations to this student for reaching the third pitstop by reading a total...