Use the following link to practice for your American Revolution test scheduled for March 9.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Box Tops for Education
Keep sending those box tops and labels. This earns money for our school! We have a jar in our classroom that we use to collect. We would love to have your tops!
Looking Ahead Week of February 27
Looking Ahead
Week of February 27, 2017
ELA: We will be looking at poetry and it's connection to mood, tone, and figurative language.
Math: We will continue working with fractions.
Science: We will begin to look at slow processes that change Earth's surface.
Social Studies: We will wrap up the American Revolution. The anticipated test date will be March 9th.
Spotlight on Learning Week of February 20
Spotlight on Learning
Week of February 20, 2017
ELA: We worked again with text dependent analysis. Students are really learning a lot about how to thoughtfully respond to a question dependent upon knowledge of a particular text.
Science: We wrapped up our unit about landforms and water features by developing our very own islands. These islands include four landforms and four water features as well as a treasure that is hidden. They look fantastic!
Social Studies: We began learning about heroes and battles of the American Revolution. Our anticipated test date for this unit will be March 9.
Math: We learned how to mark fractions on a number line. Please see videos posted earlier this week, if you would like to see how they are doing this.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Fractions on a Number Line Videos
Use the videos below to help review steps to reading and using fractions on a number line.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Hello, Kansas!
What's a fun way to practice your geography skills? Mystery Hangouts are a great way to reach out to others and to learn more about geography. Today, our class participated in a Mystery Hangout. Our class met another group of 3rd graders. After introductions, our classes took turns asking questions that would help us narrow down where the other class was. Both classes came up with great questions such as "Are you on the east coast?" and "Are you west of the Mississippi River"?
We figured out after looking at maps and listening to clues that this class was from Kansas! Afterwards, each class shared facts about their state (great review of what we learned earlier in the year).
We had a lot of fun, and were able to review some terminology that helps in social studies!
Monday, February 20, 2017
Looking Ahead Week of February 20
Looking Ahead
Week of February 20, 2017
ELA: We will be working with text dependent analysis as well as beginning a novel study. Students will also be learning about idioms.
Math: We will continue learning about fractions. We will begin placing fractions on a number line.
Social Studies: We will be learning about battles and heroes of the American Revolution.
Science: We will continue learning about landforms and water features. We will also learn about fast and slow processes of change.
Spotlight on Learning Week of February 13
Spotlight on Learning
Week of February 13, 2017
ELA- We continued working on our autobiographies and are almost all ready to publish. We also participated in a District Writing Assessment. This assessment allows us to see how well students can respond to text, either fiction or nonfiction. Students were given two passages to read independently, and were then asked to analyze the text using a writing prompt. We have been practicing these types of writing prompts since the first nine weeks and will continue to practice throughout the remainder of the year. It is amazing how much they are growing as readers and writers!
Math- We continued learning about fractions.
Science- We learned about landforms and water features seen on Earth.
Social Studies- We wrappped up our learning about the causes of the American Revolution. We will have a quiz on this on February 21.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Happy Valentines Day
I hope you all had a wonderful Valentines Day! Thank you so much for the special notes and treats!
I appreciate you!
Making Connections
Have you heard? Our class has met some wonderful students at Round Top Elementary School via Google Hangout. Yesterday, students at both schools made a new friend, talked about common interests, and planned to meet later for book talks. They had a great time! They are even planning to keep in touch by writing friendly letters! What a fun way to connect and share what we are learning!
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Spotlight on Learning Week of February 6
Spotlight on Learning
Week of February 6, 2017
ELA: We continued working with our autobiographies and figurative language. Students have learned about similes, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, and oxymorons.
Math: We continued working with identifying fractions.
Science: We wrapped up our unit on soil.
Social Studies: We continued learning about causes of the American Revolution.
Looking Ahead Week of February 13
Math: We will continue learning about fractions. We will have a quiz on Monday, February 13.
Science: We will begin a new unit, land and water features of Earth.
Social Studies: We will continue working through the Revolutionary War. We will have quiz on the causes of the Revolutionary War on Friday, February 17.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
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