The last couple weeks have been very exciting!  I wanted to share some of the new things that we are learning and the experiences we are having in Third Grade.

Word Work-  We started learning our day by day routine and practiced as a whole class the activities we will be doing each day after we start our differentiated lessons.  In the lesson in the picture, we learned how to use a thesaurus, dictionary and the computer (dictionary.com) to define words and find synonym/antonyms.

Writing-  This week we started learning about personal narratives and are getting ready to work on our first writing project.  We discussed visualization in our writing and creating mental images for the reader.  We had fun trying to form a mental image of the "green giant" and drawing it on paper. 

We also gave friends and family members a "Gift of Poetry".  The students found poems that they thought someone else would like from our bins of poetry books and gifted them. 

Math-  We are well into our graphing unit in math.  This week practiced analyzing graphs and even graphed skittles!  The students learned about the X and the Y axis, labels on a graph, scale, intervals and categories.  We also talked about how graphs need to be pleasing to they eye, neatness and spelling are VERY important!  In this picture we are graphing M&M's.

Reading-  In reading we have been busy learning about context clues and character traits.  We even found the character traits of one of our classmates, Logan.

Today was Free Choice Friday during reading.  The kids had a lot of fun reading Bookflix, Trueflix, writing with a friend using Google Docs or their notebooks.  It was a time where they were free to choose their own activity and I know that they loved every minute of it!'