We made it to September! One step closer to fall!
I am having so much fun with this class. They have great little personalities which makes our day so much fun! I love that they know how to joke around and have fun, but when it's time to do our work they stop and get right to attentive listening and doing their work!
Reading: This week we learned about inferences. We watched a funny commerical and a pixar short and talked about the inferences we could make with each. If your student brought home a inference paper titled For the Birds, could you please return it. One of the students thought our turn in basket was the basket of papers that needed to be put in the mail boxes so it accidently got sent home before I could grade it.
We took our first spelling test this week. If your student received a 1 on the test please sign it and return it so I know you have seen it. The students are getting used to taking a spelling test in 3rd grade where they have to write the whole sentence. They also have to remember to start the sentence with a capital and end with the correct puncuation. Mrs. WindRiver and I are putting together the spelling groups for next week. On Tuesday your student will receive a differentiated spelling list at your child's specific ability level.
During bookclub this week the students learned how to use Edmodo. This is the site where your students will submit their reading assignments each week. You can check their edmodo at home, however I do not want them working on their edmodo at home unless they are absent a day and need to catch up.
Writing:
In cursive we are almost finished with learning all the lowercase letters. Next I will introduce all the capital letters. Once I have introduced all the letters the kids will each receive their own cursive book to work through.
In writing we started a new opinion paper. First we read the story Hey, Little Ant and came up with reasons why the boy should squish the ant and reasons why the boy should not squish the ant. Next, we read non-fiction ant books and took notes. The students then came up with their opinion on what the boy should do. They will use the ant facts to support their opinions.
Grammar:
We reviewed regular and irregular plural nouns and took an assessment. We then learned about abstract nouns. The kids learned a catchy song about abstract nouns. :)
Projects:
During projects the students learned about simple machines. This will get them ready for making their catapults!
