I cannot believe that the 3rd quarter is already over! This year has flown by. I will be so sad for these kids to move on to 4th grade. I'm glad I will at least still get to see them for reading.
I am going to try something new for signing up for conferences. It will be all online on sign up genius. I will be setting it up at the beginning of the week and you will be getting an email telling you to go on and sign up for your conference time. Other teachers here use this and say it works great.
Reading: (3rd) We worked on a smarter balance question requiring them to write the ending to a narrative story. On Wednesday they shared what they wrote with a partner and got feedback. Then they revised their story using their feedback. We also had a spelling test on Thursday. We will have a Latin/Greek test this week.
(4th) We worked on a smarter balance question requiring them to summarize a non-fiction text. On Wednesday we discussed and they shared with their bridge partner. They then used the feedback from their partner to revise their summary.
Writing: The students were giving two examples of a tall tale. They then had to write their own tall tale. We will continue with these this week.
Grammar: We practiced putting a paragraph in the correct order so it will make sense. Making sure to have a topic sentence and a concluding sentence. They then had to add more details to the paragraph to enhance it.
Projects: We almost finished our life cycle projects. They will practice presenting this week and will present to each other on Wednesday.
