Third graders work on special project with spelling words

We had a very busy Friday.  And we changed up a few things!  We finished our "Thank You" book for the bank that adopted our class.  It turned out nicely!  I have already delivered it!

In reading we made a trifold review and took our weekly test.

We also worked with complete subjects ad predicates.  

In spelling, rather than take another test today, we wrote our words.  But I had the words where they were dotted onto nice handwriting paper.  Then we traced our consonants in purple and the vowels in green.  Then they had to write the word on the line in their neatest writing.  I feel we have got so much to cram into a day, we rarely have time to discuss handwriting.  So we did that today.  They were so proud of themselves!

Have a wonderful weekend!  I am hoping to go to my hometown of Wetumka to attend Sucker Day!  There is a book written about this celebration by a friend of mine called Flimflam Man.  Darleen Bailey Beard wrote this book.  We read it in class.

Class works on thank-you book for bank that donated book binding machine

We had another great day.  We started with a choice of reading silently or finishing any unfinished work.

In reading we "Popcorn" read with our stories.  We also worked with compound words and sorted words by patterns.  We used our spelling words to so the sorting.

We also did a phonics lesson using our spelling words.

In math those who hadn't finished the SCOOT 3-digit addition practice were given time to finish.  We also had a rounding review today.

Today we also started a thank you book for the bank that donated the book binding machine.  We will bind it when we are through.  Every child is working on a page.  We wrote a story together.  Then we handed out pages to be illustrated.

Have a great Thursday!

Students work with finding the main idea in informational text

Today in third grade we covered a lot of ground!  We started with an addition and subtraction page.  They had to look at the sign so that they did the correct operation.  I usually have several who thought they were all addition at this time of year.  We will see.

In reading we worked more with finding the main idea and informational text used to back up the main idea of a passage/story.  We started on some books that I purchased specifically for third grade and main idea.  We also listened to the next story and compared it to last night's story.  

We worked with rhyming, using our spelling words.  

We finished our three digit SCOOT game today.  There were a few who didn't finish, so they will be given time to do so.  This is an activity that can't be done at home.  I had to make cards, and fear they would get lost.

In science we started our Fossils to Fuel unit, but were interrupted by our tornado drill.  Which having been through the Moore tornado with a former class, I am always happy to do the drill!  

Our secret word is perseverance.

Book orders are due tomorrow.