Our Black History Month Projects

Our students created Who Am I? projects for their entries into the Black History Month Museum this week at school. They were able to choose between writing about Frederick Douglass or Mary McLeod Bethune, two people are also a part of our 3rd grade Social Studies standards. The kids  worked hard and did a wonderful job. Way to go!!

Dino-Sized Cause and Effect!

Lately we have been working towards identifying and analyzing cause and effect relationships in various texts. Here are some snapshots of the kids practicing!

Reading/Language for Week 25 (2/23-2/27)

*Our Reading and Language lessons come from Lesson 22 in the reading textbook.

Reading: Comparing and Contrasting Two ideas from the Same texts (Excerpt from The Journey: Stories of Migrations and various other texts)

Language: Identifying and Using Comparative Adverbs and Adjectives 

Social Studies: Unit Test for Eleanor Roosevelt (Impact of her life, beliefs, and work {including her work with the United Nations} on civil rights)

Spelling and Vocabulary: Words with -y to -i patterns

Spelling List

cities 

pretty 

countries

cried 

very 

libraries

puppies

hurried

stories

flies

parties

tried

pennies

fried

carried

babies

spied

ponies

Vocabulary List

1.    landscape: scenery

2.    survival: the act of staying alive

3.     dramatic: exciting

4.     solid: firm and hard

5.     thunderous: very loud

6.     chilly: cold

7.     migrate: to move to another place

8.     accidents: unexpected injuries

9.     frightening: scary

10.   plenty: more than enough

Eleanor Roosevelt Unit Test - Study Guide!!

Hi! Our Eleanor Roosevelt Unit Test will be Wednesday, February 25th. Remember to study your notes and this study guide!

Reading/Language for Week 24 (2/18-2/21)

*Our Reading and Language lessons come from Lesson 21 in the reading textbook.

Reading: Identifying and Analyzing Characters, Setting, and Plot in Historical Fiction (Excerpt from Sarah, Plain and Tall and various other texts)

Language: Identifying and Using Comparative Adverbs 

Social Studies: Eleanor Roosevelt (Impact of her life, beliefs, and work {including her work with the United Nations} on civil rights)

Spelling and Vocabulary: Words with the suffixes -ed and -ing

Spelling List

coming 

making 

scared

swimming 

stopped 

freezing

dropping

tapping

taping

invited

saving

stared

planned

changing

joking

loved

gripped

tasted

Vocabulary

1.    prairie: a treeless, grass-covered plain in the Midwest

2.    slick: having a smooth, glossy, or slippery surface

3.     fetch: to go after and bring back somebody or something

4.     clattered: made a loud rattling

5.     sniff: breathe in through the nose to see how something smells

6.     rough: having a bumpy, knobby, or uneven surface

7.     batted: struck at something

8.     thumped: hit in a way that made a loud dull sound

9.     buzzing: making a low, humming sound

10.  rustle: a swishing or soft cracking sound

Franklin D. Roosevelt Study Guide!!!

Hi! Here is the study guide for our FDR Unit. Be sure to use all your notes, practice tests, Big 4s, SS DWUps, and mini-books to help study. Good luck! :)

Reading/Language for Week 22

Reading/Language for Week 22 (2/2-2/6)

*Our Reading and Language lessons come from Lesson 20 in the reading textbook.

Reading: Identifying and Summarizing Using Main Idea and Details/ Making Predictions (Life on the Ice and various other fiction and nonfiction texts)

Language: Identifying and Using Adverbs in a Sentence

Social Studies: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Life, beliefs, and work {including The New Deal} during WWII)

Spelling and Vocabulary: Compound Words

Spelling List

birthday 

anyone 

sometimes

everything

homework

afternoon

airplane

grandmother

something

without

himself

faraway

sunburned

daylight

someone 

scorekeeper

cannot 

everybody

Vocabulary

1.    wilderness: a wild, unlived-in area of land

2.    gliding: sliding, moving, or flying along with ease

3.    region: a certain area or space

4.    colony: a group of people or animals that live together

5.    shelter: a place that covers or protects

6.    unexpected: without warning

7.    overheated: heated beyond the safe point

8.    constant: always the same

9.    climate: usual weather conditions in an area over many years

10. layer: one thickness