tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18972422392532093832024-03-04T23:18:29.350-08:00Mrs. Moon's 3rd GradeAll our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -Walt DisneyMelissa Mackedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13252602325170006949noreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-57460701748735331732018-05-27T16:09:00.000-07:002018-05-27T16:09:09.860-07:002 more weeks!!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Things are winding down. We have been doing a lot of report card assessing. Luckily we should be done with it soon, so we can move on to things that are more fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In projects the students are finishing up their market day products. This week they will be working on making their posters and pricing their items. The 1st and 2nd graders are getting excited to be the consumers for our project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The students will be taking their last spelling test on Thursday. They all have high frequency words so they need to be studying. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On <b>Tuesday</b> <b>June 5th</b> we will be having a Poetry Slam! Parents are invited to come at <b>2:30</b> to watch the students recite their poems. They have been working hard on getting their poems memorized so I hope you can make it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Field Day</b> is on June 7! Make sure your student wears sunblock. There will also be a lot of water activities so count on your child getting wet! They should come to school with a swim suit under their clothes. They should bring extra clothes to change into before we watch a movie at the end of the day. Remember everyone is out of school that day at <b>2:00.</b></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-49707196857834308002018-04-22T15:53:00.001-07:002018-04-22T15:53:04.063-07:00Important upcoming dates<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Testing days are about to begin. This week we will do a lot of reviewing to prepare for our tests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Please make sure your student is at school on the following days:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Tuesday 5/1- 3rd grade ACT ELA</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Wednesday 5/2- 3rd grade ACT Math/Science</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> - 4th grade ACT ELA</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Monday 5/7- 3rd SBAC ELA part 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Tuesday 5/8- 3rd SBAC ELA part 2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Monday 5/14-3rd SBAC Math part 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Tuesday 5/15-3rd SBAC Math part 2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">3rd grade compared and contrasted the important points in two texts on the same subject. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">4th- Found cause and effect events in 2 different articles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Both classes received new <b>spelling</b> words. They will have a spelling test on 4/19.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing</b>: The students each received the same article on animal helpers. Then some wrote a narrative paper based on the article, some wrote an opinion and some wrote an informational. We will continue doing this for 3 weeks. By the end of the 3 weeks they will have done one of each kind of writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We are reviewing all the standards we have covered this year. I am pulling small groups to work on specific standards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We got ready for student led conferences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">**Don't forget student led conferences will be on Friday April 20th anytime between 8:00 and 1:00. These are student led so your student must be with you. If you cannot come you can come before or after school the following week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>We focused on finding the main idea and supporting details. They also received new Latin/Greek words on Monday and took a spelling test on Thursday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">* The students will not be getting a new spelling list unitl AFTER spring break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>We finished up the deep sea creature writing. Come check them out in the hallway!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We reviewed putting punctuation in dialogue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We continued working on our animal adaptation projects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b> * Wednesday March 28th @ 10:45 Music program in the High School Hangout</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b> * Thursday March 29th between 2:30 and 3:30- Animal Adaptation presentations in the cafeteria.</b></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-89080763875847745972018-03-18T17:02:00.000-07:002018-03-18T17:02:19.192-07:003/12- 3/15<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Reading:</b> I continued doing reading assessments. The students practiced Cause and Effect. They also received new spelling words and took a Latin/Greek test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They will receive new Latin/Greek words on Monday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is a <b>Spelling Test </b>on Thursday 3/22</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Writing</b>: We are finishing up our Deep Sea Creatures writing. They are turning out great!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar</b>: We worked on singular and plural possessives nouns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Projects</b>: The students continued working on their animal adaptation projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>We started the 2nd trimester testing. The students got their new Latin/Greek words. They will test on 3/15/18.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We worked on correctly putting commas in addresses</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We continued working on our animal adaptation project. </span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-37023881683201100492018-03-07T07:35:00.001-08:002018-03-07T07:35:20.426-08:00spelling test<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Don't forget there will be a spelling test tomorrow!</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-4848677323262620462018-02-10T20:24:00.002-08:002018-02-10T20:24:43.821-08:001/16-1/18<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>This week the students received their spelling words. Everyone will have the same words this time. All week we practiced using these high frequency words correctly. We will continue practicing next week. The students should also be practicing at home. There will be a test on Thursday 1/ 25.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The students took a Latin/Greek test. I was very disappointed with how many students did not study. I remind them daily to study for this test. They also have the new roots in their binders to study at home. Those that received a 1 or a 2 retook the test at the end of the day. We quickly went over the words and then they were give 10 minutes to study. Also all of the students received a 3 after this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>The students continued working on their snow globe writing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We continued working on plural vs. possessive nouns. This is a very hard concept but they are doing a great job understanding it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>The students continued working on their weather projects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">* <b>Snack: </b>Every day I have at least 5 students who tell me they do not have a snack. I am no longer bringing extra snacks for students. Please make sure your student brings a snack for the morning and one for the afternoon.</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-85338127002677191932018-02-10T20:24:00.001-08:002018-02-10T20:24:17.298-08:002/5-2/8<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reminder: </b>Your child may bring in a Valentine for each student in the class. Please only fill out the from section of the card. I will provide the treat for the Valentine party. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>The students are each researching a deep sea creature. I love this writing assignment because these creatures are all so unique!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>We continued learning about text feature. This week we focused on pictures and captions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The students received their new Latin/Greek words. We will test on these on Thursday 2/15.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The students did a great job on their spelling tests! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>The students learned about shades of meaning with related words. We also reviewed parts of speech, quotation marks and irregular nouns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Project: </b>We started our animal adaptation project. The students will each create the ultimate animal to survive in a specific habitat. <b> </b>We read about the 4 different habitats. The students each got to pick which habitat they wanted their animal to be in. We then read about animal hands/feet. The students filled out a note taker picking which animal hands/feet they want their animal to have. </span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-33539307930501615662018-02-03T13:24:00.001-08:002018-02-03T13:24:50.467-08:001/29-2/1<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>** We need shoe boxes for our next project. If you have 1 or 2 you could send in that would be very helpful. Also if you have any magazines with animals in them that you could donate to our classroom that would be great!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading:</b> This week we started reading non-fiction. We introduced the text features title, subtitle, heading and subheading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The students also received their spelling words. Their test will be on 2/8.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>3rd Graders: </b>They did a great job on their work this week. They took their time and went back and found their answers in the text. I was very proud of their work ethic! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>4th Graders: </b> This week the 4th graders did not take their work seriously. Out of the entire class only 3 turned in their work completed correctly. The others had to get their work back to fix. Some of them had to fix it 3 or 4 times before getting it correct. If they go back and use their text to find their answers they would not have this problem. Starting this week, if a student turns in his/her work the first time and misses enough problems to earn a 1 on the assignment I will be sending it home for a parent signature. They will still be required to fix their work and turn it back in. This work in not too hard for them, they just don't want to take the time to read carefully and go back and find their answers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>The students had a narrative assessment. They had to write a narrative story about missing Valentines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We worked on subject/verb agreement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We finished up our weather projects and presented to the 2nd grade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>3rd: </b>The students practiced using context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>4th: </b>The students compared and contrasted the same story using multi media.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>The students are writing a narrative about being stuck in a snow globe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We started learning about possessive nouns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We started our severe weather projects. The students are are working together with students in Mrs. Luyt's class. I love when we are able to do this! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We will present projects at 2:00 on Monday in the cafeteria. They have worked very hard on their projects and are ready to show them off!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>3rd: The students compared 2 stories with the same characters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">4th- The students worked on making inferences within a text. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing:</b> We are finishing up our narrative writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>The students reviewed different grammar standards using a mentor sentence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We finished up and practiced our 51st state project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On Thursday we will be watching a movie in the afternoon as a part of our Christmas party. The students will be able to choose to watch Home Alone in Mrs. Luyt's room or Santa Claus 3 in our room. If you do not want your child to watch one or both of these movies please let me know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>3rd- We read 2 books by the same author. The students determined the setting, theme, problem, solution and beginning, middle and end of both stories. Next week we are going to compare and contrast both stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4th- We watched Pixar Shorts and made inferences based on what we saw. They had to be able to provide evidence to support their inference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We wrote letters to Santa for the LVN.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We are finishing up our 51st State project. I will send home an email at the beginning of the week letting you know when we will present.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Secret Santa: </b>The students all drew their names for Secret Santa. Remember to only spend $5 on the gift. The Dollar Store is a great place to shop for this! Only fill out the <b>From</b> part of the name tag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The students took a spelling test on Thursday. Overall they did a great job. They will not get a new list until after Christmas break. Spelling will be run a little differently after the break. I will go into detail at a later date. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There will be a Latin/Greek test on Thursday 12/7. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>We continued working through the narrative writing process. Most students are ready to begin their rough drafts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We reviewed past and present tense verbs, then took an assessment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We are on the tail end of the 51st State project. The goal is for all projects to be completed by 12/7. We will then practice presenting to eachother, and then finally invite the parents in to enjoy. As soon as I know a set date and time I will send out an email.</span><br />
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* <span style="font-size: large;">A bookorder was sent home. If you are ordering a book as a gift for your child please let me know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>We are slowly working through the writing process when writing a narrative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We reviewed and tested on making simple, compound and complex sentences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>The students continued working on their 51st State project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">** Be on the lookout for a scholastic bookorder coming home soon. If you would like to order for Christmas and do not want your child to see the order, let me know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. I will see you tomorrow!</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-45919992643195940532017-11-12T17:15:00.000-08:002017-11-12T17:15:01.216-08:00Week #10<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>This week in reading we worked on literal and non literal meaning of phrases. The students received new Latin/Greek words. They will have an assessment on these words on 11/ 16. They also had a spelling test. </span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One more week and then we get the entire week off for Thanksgiving!! </span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-59299962461669415732017-11-06T07:47:00.002-08:002017-11-06T07:47:54.630-08:00Week #9<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>This week the students wrote an opinion paper completely on their own for an assessment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>The students were introduced to subordinating conjunctions. They practiced finding the subordinating conjunction in a complex sentence. They also had to find the dependent clause.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>We finished up the best animal opinion writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>This week the students learned about coordinating conjunctions. They practice putting two independent clauses together using a FANBOYS conjunction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Misc: </b>Tuesday is Halloween. The students can wear their costumes to school. Please no masks or weapons. We will have a school wide costume parade in the morning and party in the afternoon. It should be a GREAT day of fun!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The students all received new dictionaries from the Rotary Club this week. They were so excited. They want to take them home but I asked them to leave them at school so they can have them to use. At the end of the year they can bring them home. </span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-71754185316957083382017-10-21T12:41:00.001-07:002017-10-21T12:41:03.172-07:00Week #7<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>This week we worked on using evidence based terms when answering a question. We read books and then discussed how to answer the question using evidence from the book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We took a LG test. There will be a spelling test on 10/26. Make sure your child is studying!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>The students are writing about which animal they think is the best. They have done research to support their opinion. They are working on putting their opinion and the facts they have found together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>The students learned that every sentence has a subject and a predicate. Also, each sentence has a simple subject and predicate. We practiced finding the subject and predicate in sentences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>The students are finishing up their Nevada Symbols books. Most have started their 51st State Project. They are creating the 51st state. I can't wait to see how creative they get with this project.</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-58037549684453301172017-10-13T15:29:00.002-07:002017-10-13T15:29:54.516-07:00Week #6<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>This week we talked about character traits. We read pictures books and discussed the character trait of the main character, using evidence to support the trait.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The students took a spelling test on Thursday. If they received a 1 their test will need to be signed and returned. The students have some time to study in class, but please be sure to also study at home. They will be getting new spelling words on Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>We completed our ant opinion writing. I am impressed with how well the students are doing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We finished up with regular and irregular verbs. We then did an activity with comparative and superlative adjectives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We did our egg drop. Only one egg was broken during this activity!! We then started introducing our next project by making a Me Map. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Picture re-take day is on Monday. If you did not like your student's pictures send the packet of pictures back to school so they can do retakes. </b></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-89372103448783842472017-10-07T20:48:00.000-07:002017-10-07T20:48:05.930-07:00Week #5<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading:</b>The students learned about 1st and 3rd person point of view. We read books and discussed which point of view the story was told from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The students are getting into the groove of getting their edmodo assignments completed. They are having to learn to manage their time in order to get everything done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">They took their first Latin/Greek test on Thursday. They all did a great job! They will be getting their new words on Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There will be a spelling test on Thursday 10/12. Don't forget to have your student study.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>We continued working on the ant opinion writing. I am very impressed with how well they are doing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>The students learned about adjectives and verbs this week. We will continue working with verbs next week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>The students are building their egg drop projects using simple machines. It's always fun to watch them in action. </span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-62897583366429797572017-10-02T06:23:00.001-07:002017-10-02T06:23:12.710-07:00Week #4<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading:</b> This week the students learned about the protagonist and the antagonist. The 3rd graders had their first spelling test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">They recieved their first Latin/Greek words. The first Latin/Greek test is on Thursday 10/5. All students should have their Latin/Greek roots in a sheet protector in their binders. Don't forget to study!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>We started another opinion writing. We read that had the point of view of a boy and an ant. Both were giving reasons why they boy should or should not squish the ant. We then read non-fiction ant books. The students will use their notes from these books to write an opinion writing of whether or not the boy should squish the ant. They will use the ant facts to support their opinion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>We leared about concrete and abstract nouns. We watched a video with a very catchy tune to help introduce this concept. Next the students did a sort. This was a very easy concept for them. We then moved on to adjectives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>The students learned that they are going to be figuring out how to get an egg from the table to the ground using simple machines. It is fun to watch them work with their groups and figure out how they will be doing this! </span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-7267475072297664352017-09-23T12:52:00.001-07:002017-09-23T12:52:26.815-07:00Week 3<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading: </b>This week the students learned about using context clues to understand the meaning of an unknown word. The <b>3rd </b>graders worked in pairs and came up with a made-up word and definition. They then wrote a sentence that had context clues so the class could determine the meaning of their word. The <b>4th</b> graders read a paragraph containing an unknown word. They then had to use context clues to find the meaning of the word. They had to write what clues helped them figure out the meaning of the word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Spelling: </b>The students (just 3rd graders) received their first spelling list. They are high frequency words this time. Remember that when testing the students have to write the entire sentence. They will be graded on having a capital, spelling all spelling words correctly (and using the correct form of the word) and having the correct punctuation. Their first test will be on <b>Thursday September 28th. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>We continued through the writing process for our Oreo writing. The students voted that they liked Apple Pie Oreos better than Birthday Cake Oreos (I did not agree!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>This week we worked on changing singular nouns into plural nouns. We made a notetaker with all the rules. The students took an assessment on Thursday. They all did a great job on the assessment!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>We finished up with our simple machines rotations. The students then went on a simple machines scavenger hunt around the school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Don't forget to send your student with 2 snacks each day. During our afternoon snack time I have had several students tell me they are hungry but they do not have a snack. Sometimes I have something I can give them, but usually I don't have anything. </b></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897242239253209383.post-45588394127864795602017-09-17T12:22:00.001-07:002017-09-17T12:22:23.238-07:00Week #2<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We had another great week!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Third graders had to take the MAP test this week. They did a good job of staying focused and trying their best! I was very proud of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Reading: We worked on identifying different parts of the plot stucture in different picture books. We also talked about using format matters when answering (restating the question, answering in a complete sentence and talking loud enought for all to hear)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Writing: We finished taking our snapshot assessments. The students then had an Oreo taste test that we will use to start our opinion writing on Monday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Grammar: We finished up with nouns and pronouns. The students then made a notetaker to help them with the rules for changing singlar nouns into plural nouns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We had a great first week!! If you haven't turned in all of your paperwork, please send it in with your child ASAP. Also, please remember to turn in your family scrapbook page. The kids love looking at eachother's pages and sharing our book with their family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Reading:</b> This week we are working on Read to Self and building stamina. The goal is to work up to 20 minutes. We will be there in no time! We also worked on Plot Structure. We focused on exposition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Writing: </b>I want to know where the students are with their writing. This week they wrote an opinion writing and they started a narative. We will finish the narative writing on Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grammar: </b>In order to review nouns, the students were each given a kind of noun (person, place, thing or idea). They were not told why they were given their card just that they had to figure out who was in their group. It took a few minutes but once someone figured it out it was fun to watch them work together to get everyone into the correct group. The groups then each made a noun poster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Projects: </b>This week we focused on Tribes and our Tribes agreements. We did some fun activities to help us build a strong classroom community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Misc. </b>The students will all need headphones this year. If you could please send in a pair of headphones in a ziplock bag with your child's name on it that would be great. There is no hurry just as soon as it is convienent for you.</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com