Academic Update: During Social Studies, the students have been busy learning about Ellis Island and the challenges people went through coming from another country to America, where they didn’t understand the language and there were many inspections and obstacles they had to get through in order to make it officially into America. The third graders made fantastic presentations to teach the rest of the class about the information they read in their Ellis Island booklets. They worked very hard coming up with unique and creative ways to present this information, either through visuals and props, skits, or posters. The videos will be on our classroom website later this week. During ELA, we have been learning about prefixes and suffixes to help us decode more difficult multi-syllable words. We’ve also practiced spelling skills, continued our reading strategies, and most recently started to pick our favorite writing pieces from all three categories (Narrative, Opinion, and Information writing), to pass on to next year’s teacher! *We have many events and celebrations to look forward to, as you can see below: Upcoming Events and Reminders:
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Whew! We made it through our first week of SBAC!! The students did a fantastic job staying focused during this time. They earned extra outside time multiple times this week, and luckily the weather cooperated and we had beautiful sunny days! In between testing, we were able to get some of our learning time in. On Monday the students proved to be excellent “Root Word Detectives!” They were able to decipher meanings to many common root words like “photos, graph, tele, metron, and tropos!” We spoke about how helpful it will be in our lives to know the most common Greek and Latin root words because it can help us understand more difficult words much easier. We realized that so many words come from these “roots.” We also had time to “ketchup” on a few writing pieces that we hadn’t completed the week before and get more read aloud time for our You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox Amber Brown book. The third graders have had more opportunities for free writing time and many have chosen to create chapter books. I’ve noticed well-developed characters and plots. The students are using their writing skills to develop entertaining books for the grade! During Social Studies, the students worked on a “jigsaw” reading activity to present information from the book Ellis Island by Elaine Landa in groups. They practiced their highlighting and presentation skills to the rest of the class. This was a great challenge! 3M made it to the top of their token jar and received the privilege for more outside time! We did this on Friday, to end a busy week on positive note! Upcoming events & Reminders:
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What strange weather we’ve had lately! It finally feels like Spring! We’ve had many opportunities this week to take advantage of the beautiful weather, with “out and backs” for our brain breaks, to give the students the opportunity to run and get some of their extra energy out. The students have also participated in numerous Green Up Day activities during Science, and read alouds about the environment during ELA. On Wednesday, Mrs. White came in to read Just A Dream by Chris Van Allsburg, about a boy who isn’t aware of how to help his environment, but then falls asleep and many strange things begin to happen to him. His time- traveling bed takes Walter into the future to show him the negative environmental impact humans can have on our Earth if we’re not careful. There was a fantastic discussion based on this story afterward, with many great ideas on how we can help. On Friday, we continued this discussion, and came up with a list of what we’d like to focus on during our Friday afternoons to help the environment. Mrs. White also gave the students stickers and fun activity packets to work on. This was also our final week of SBAC practice activities. The students seem to feel more comfortable using the program and the many literacy skills we’ve practiced throughout the past few weeks. The actual assessment starts next Tuesday morning. Remember to get a good night sleep and eat a healthy breakfast to get your minds ready to take the SBAC each day. Try not to stress about it and remember to try your best! Upcoming Events and Reminders:
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