Young learners work on nonfiction passages, similes, and bar graphs

We had a productive day today. 

We started with a comprehensive practice using a nonfiction passage about another third grade classroom.  It was about a class collecting pennies and donating them to the American Cancer Society.  Our class showed an interest in collecting pennies and donating them to a local cause.  We will discuss this, and I will have to check to see if we are even allowed to do so.

We also introduced similes.  Similes compare things and use the words "like' or "as."  I read several to the class, then we came up with what we thought would be a definition.  Then we looked it up in the dictionary to compare our definition with the one it had.  They had the same components!  This seems to help them maintain the understanding of words, rather than just looking up definitions.  Then we filled in our simile pages in our Figurative Language notebooks we made yesterday.  They had to find some, as well as write their own.

In math we chose 7 books that we have read or heard.  Then we placed a Post-it note with our names on them above the book we liked the best.  We then made a tally mark chart.  With that information we completed the individual bar graphs that we made.  

I have to be gone tomorrow, as I am going to a service for my husband's relative that died last month.  She was cremated, and they held off so that everyone could get there, as it is in Washington state.  Please help your child to remember they need to behave like I was here.