The Terrific Third Graders are excited to return to school, working and learning! For Social/Emotional Learning, we read Is a Book a Box for Words? and The Reflection in Me, discussing the stories and then writing their thoughts in their journals. With The Reflection of Me, the children drew themselves and wrote adjectives to describe themselves positively. Thank you to Pam Bator for contributing the books to our classroom as a holiday gift.
For Language Arts, as a class, the children read Owl Moon for a literature study. They thought about fact vs opinion using quotes about Great Horned Owls. They listened to quotes to decide the feeling behind the idea and played a comprehension game to review the book's story elements. This week, we started Because of Winn Dixie by learning the essential vocabulary words for the first chapters. For word work - we learned the different spellings for /air/. They practiced using connecting words in sentences with a fun Mystery Writing lesson. The children worked hard on their Winter NWEA testing. For our study of Dublin, Karen Madigan, from the DPL, came up to DCS for the third graders to interview her about the Dublin Library. They used the responses to write individual paragraphs about what they learned. We continue to monitor the birds visiting our birdfeeder. For our science lesson last week, “the students gathered evidence to explain how a change to the environment can cause a particular trait to become more common in a population over time through the process of natural selection.” - MysteryScience.
4th/5th ELA - The students are busy working on vocabulary, story elements such as point of view and cause and effect, and comprehension with their group novels. Mystery Writing taught them how to form compound sentences with connecting words and reviewed the most frequently used connecting words while building their own sentences. Their word study was the different ways to write the phoneme /air/, thinking about the meanings of different homophones such as fair and fare. The class worked hard on their NWEAs. Ask your child about The Fish in a Tree,
