March 4, 2022
▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday.
▢ Complete your reading log for two days.
▢ PE Log. It is due on Monday. Write the minutes and skill practiced. Complete the reflection on the back and add up the minutes.
▢ Author Study Step 8: Two Big Idea Quotes
You are to locate an original quote by your author that is of significance. The best place to look for an actual quote is in the biography.
Also, you are to write your own original quote that refers to your author. Use the facts that you learned about your author and your opinion papers about the author. Example: “Beverly Cleary is a great fiction writer who creates realistic characters that relate to children’s lives.” You can use the classic book chart to help state your opinion.
Write a paragraph and explain your two big idea quotes, why you chose the quotes, and give evidence from the books to support it.
▢ Complete your Math handouts. Did you write your name and date on the front of the page?
▢ Spelling Thursday_Chose one spelling activity to do with your spelling words
▢ Spelling Friday_ Have your parent give you a spelling test and have them correct it in your spelling book.
▢ Zoom Meeting 8:30 am on Friday. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
▢ Organize your homework. Put all of your work into your green folder and the author’s notebook. Bring both notebooks on Monday. Put them into your backpack.
February 17-18, 2022
▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
▢ Complete your reading log for three days.
▢ PE Log. Write the minutes and skill practiced.
▢ Author Study
Step 6: Reflection of the Author’s Life and his/her books
Author Is.
▢ Complete your Math handouts. Did you write your name and date on the front of the
page?
▢ Zoom Meeting 8:30 am on Thursday and Friday. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Thursday and Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
▢ Organize your homework. Put all of your work into your green folder and the author’s notebook. Bring both notebooks on Monday Put them into your backpack.
February 4, 2022
▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday.
▢ Complete your reading log for both days.
▢ PE Log. Write the minutes and skill practiced. It is due on Monday.
Did you complete the back of the sheet?
Author Study _ Step 4 Author’s Style
▢Author’s Style Sheet
Using post-it notes, identify the language that makes images in your mind, creates excitement, or makes you laugh.
Write the phrases on the Author’s Style sheet. Alliteration, similes, onomatopoeia, idioms, personification, oxymoron, paradox, metaphor, and hyperbole are a few examples.
▢ Comparing two Characters
Create a Venn diagram that compares two characters from two different books. There is a Venn diagram attached for you to use, or you can create your own.
▢ Complete your Math handouts. Did you write your name and date on the front of the math?
▢ Zoom Meeting tomorrow 8:30 am. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
January 28, 2022
▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday. ▢ Complete your reading log for both days.
▢ PE Log. Write the minutes and skill practiced.
▢ Read Step 3 of the Author Study packet.
▢ Write a letter to your author using the format we practiced.
▢ Type your letter.
▢ Make a copy of your final letter. Put it in your binder.
▢ Address your envelope to your author with your return address. Put a stamp on your envelope.
▢ Make a self-addressed envelope. Put a stamp on your envelope.
▢ Put your typed letter and self-addressed envelope in your envelope addressed to your author.
▢ Mail your envelope.
▢ Write on your note cards the scholarly traits (listed in the front of your planner) of your author. Write the reasons why you chose those traits.
▢ Complete your Math handouts pages 373-380. Did you write your name and date on the front of the math?
▢ Zoom Meeting tomorrow 8:30am. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
January 21, 2022
▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday.
▢ Complete your reading log for both days.
▢ Read Step 2 of the Author Study packet.
▢ Write a list a questions who have about your author.
▢ Research about your author.
▢ Write note cards about your author.
▢ Complete your Math handouts. Did you write your name and date on the front of the math?
▢ Zoom Meeting tomorrow 8:30am. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
November 19, 2021
▢ Watch the Project Week video sent to your parents.
▢ Read the Project Week Proposal handout sent to your parents.
▢ Pick a project you are interested in and complete the form.
▢ Math handouts
▢ Practice your Math Array Cards. Put the cards you know in one pile and the cards you need to work on in the other pile.
▢ Practice singing the Skip Counting Songs (your parents were sent the songs). The lyrics are in your green homework folder.
▢ Read 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday.
▢ Complete your Reading Log.
PE Log
▢ Be sure to write the activity, skill practiced, and time you do each day.
▢ Zoom on Friday at 8:30 am.
Complete your reflection for Friday.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders” about what you wrote in your scholarly reflection. The comments should be directed towards you.
August 27, 2021
Language Arts: Read 20 minutes
Perspective or Event Flower Project
We have been discussing perspectives, or viewpoints, in class. We have read books looking at different characters’ perspectives.
We have also been looking at details or facts, in literature about main characters. You have independently read stories and identified details about a character in a story; how they look, how they act, what they say, what they think, and how they have changed over time. You have also looked at the significant details of events within a story.
Please choose one activity:
Take 6-10 photographs from your perspective. Print them and write captions explaining your viewpoint. Design a cover and glue the photos and captions in a booklet. Remember to include in your captions what you think about ….your opinion….your perspective.
For example, if you photograph your perspective from the dinner table, you might write, “I have a great family. We like to play games and ride bikes together. I feel that we support each other and though sometimes we disagree, we laugh and enjoy each other.”
OR
OR
Change over time – how you have grown (not just weight and height)
Unanswered questions – things you wonder about, perhaps in your future
Details - facts about you
Science Spin
Math Assignment
PE Log
August 20, 2021
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▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday.
▢ Complete your reading log for two days.
▢ PE Log. It is due on Monday. Write the minutes and skill practiced. Complete the reflection on the back and add up the minutes.
▢ Author Study Step 8: Two Big Idea Quotes
You are to locate an original quote by your author that is of significance. The best place to look for an actual quote is in the biography.
Also, you are to write your own original quote that refers to your author. Use the facts that you learned about your author and your opinion papers about the author. Example: “Beverly Cleary is a great fiction writer who creates realistic characters that relate to children’s lives.” You can use the classic book chart to help state your opinion.
Write a paragraph and explain your two big idea quotes, why you chose the quotes, and give evidence from the books to support it.
▢ Complete your Math handouts. Did you write your name and date on the front of the page?
▢ Spelling Thursday_Chose one spelling activity to do with your spelling words
▢ Spelling Friday_ Have your parent give you a spelling test and have them correct it in your spelling book.
▢ Zoom Meeting 8:30 am on Friday. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
▢ Organize your homework. Put all of your work into your green folder and the author’s notebook. Bring both notebooks on Monday. Put them into your backpack.
February 17-18, 2022
▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
▢ Complete your reading log for three days.
▢ PE Log. Write the minutes and skill practiced.
▢ Author Study
Step 6: Reflection of the Author’s Life and his/her books
- Using a Venn diagram, reexamine the author’s life and compare it
- Write an opinion essay about how the author’s life influenced the
Author Is.
▢ Complete your Math handouts. Did you write your name and date on the front of the
page?
▢ Zoom Meeting 8:30 am on Thursday and Friday. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Thursday and Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
▢ Organize your homework. Put all of your work into your green folder and the author’s notebook. Bring both notebooks on Monday Put them into your backpack.
February 4, 2022
▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday.
▢ Complete your reading log for both days.
▢ PE Log. Write the minutes and skill practiced. It is due on Monday.
Did you complete the back of the sheet?
Author Study _ Step 4 Author’s Style
▢Author’s Style Sheet
Using post-it notes, identify the language that makes images in your mind, creates excitement, or makes you laugh.
Write the phrases on the Author’s Style sheet. Alliteration, similes, onomatopoeia, idioms, personification, oxymoron, paradox, metaphor, and hyperbole are a few examples.
▢ Comparing two Characters
Create a Venn diagram that compares two characters from two different books. There is a Venn diagram attached for you to use, or you can create your own.
▢ Complete your Math handouts. Did you write your name and date on the front of the math?
▢ Zoom Meeting tomorrow 8:30 am. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
January 28, 2022
▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday. ▢ Complete your reading log for both days.
▢ PE Log. Write the minutes and skill practiced.
▢ Read Step 3 of the Author Study packet.
▢ Write a letter to your author using the format we practiced.
▢ Type your letter.
▢ Make a copy of your final letter. Put it in your binder.
▢ Address your envelope to your author with your return address. Put a stamp on your envelope.
▢ Make a self-addressed envelope. Put a stamp on your envelope.
▢ Put your typed letter and self-addressed envelope in your envelope addressed to your author.
▢ Mail your envelope.
▢ Write on your note cards the scholarly traits (listed in the front of your planner) of your author. Write the reasons why you chose those traits.
▢ Complete your Math handouts pages 373-380. Did you write your name and date on the front of the math?
▢ Zoom Meeting tomorrow 8:30am. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
January 21, 2022
▢ Read a book by your Author for 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday.
▢ Complete your reading log for both days.
▢ Read Step 2 of the Author Study packet.
▢ Write a list a questions who have about your author.
▢ Research about your author.
▢ Write note cards about your author.
▢ Complete your Math handouts. Did you write your name and date on the front of the math?
▢ Zoom Meeting tomorrow 8:30am. Attendance will be taken.
▢ Complete Friday’s Scholarly Reflection.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders.”
November 19, 2021
▢ Watch the Project Week video sent to your parents.
▢ Read the Project Week Proposal handout sent to your parents.
▢ Pick a project you are interested in and complete the form.
▢ Math handouts
▢ Practice your Math Array Cards. Put the cards you know in one pile and the cards you need to work on in the other pile.
▢ Practice singing the Skip Counting Songs (your parents were sent the songs). The lyrics are in your green homework folder.
▢ Read 30 minutes on Thursday and Friday.
▢ Complete your Reading Log.
PE Log
▢ Be sure to write the activity, skill practiced, and time you do each day.
▢ Zoom on Friday at 8:30 am.
Complete your reflection for Friday.
▢ Reflection: Have your parents write their “likes and wonders” about what you wrote in your scholarly reflection. The comments should be directed towards you.
August 27, 2021
Language Arts: Read 20 minutes
Perspective or Event Flower Project
We have been discussing perspectives, or viewpoints, in class. We have read books looking at different characters’ perspectives.
We have also been looking at details or facts, in literature about main characters. You have independently read stories and identified details about a character in a story; how they look, how they act, what they say, what they think, and how they have changed over time. You have also looked at the significant details of events within a story.
Please choose one activity:
Take 6-10 photographs from your perspective. Print them and write captions explaining your viewpoint. Design a cover and glue the photos and captions in a booklet. Remember to include in your captions what you think about ….your opinion….your perspective.
For example, if you photograph your perspective from the dinner table, you might write, “I have a great family. We like to play games and ride bikes together. I feel that we support each other and though sometimes we disagree, we laugh and enjoy each other.”
OR
- Brainstorm special events you participated in this summer. Choose 3 events, and write each event with details on a flower icon. The event goes in the middle, and the details on the petals. Color the flower with colored pencils, and glue on paper to make a bouquet or garden.
OR
- Using PowerPoint, (or Prezi) create a slide show with 3-5 examples of what brings you happiness. For example if you love camping, have examples of a trip, or trips, if you are happiest when you are cooking, show examples of what you like to cook. If music brings you happy, play examples of the music you enjoy.
- Frame “yourself”. Write at least 4-6 examples in each area
Change over time – how you have grown (not just weight and height)
Unanswered questions – things you wonder about, perhaps in your future
Details - facts about you
Science Spin
Math Assignment
PE Log
August 20, 2021
- What an exciting week we had! Thank you so much for all the generous supplies, including the WISH list, that have been donated to our classroom. The third grade scholars were well prepared with their "tools" even on the first day of school! Wow! I appreciated that our scholars arrived on time and were well organized. Thanks for your support!
Universal Concept
We started this week defining and discussing the universal concept, CHANGE. Universal concepts give students the opportunity to think beyond fact-based learning. The concept transfers across disciplines to develop essential understandings. We came up with all the changes that were going on in their lives. (For example: Starting a new school, having a new teacher, being in the 3rd grade, and meeting new friends). We grouped them together and they realized that CHANGES can be positive and negative or both and CHANGES are necessary for growth.
We read First Day Jitters by Judy Danneburg and used Depth and Complexity icons as our tools for diving deeper and understanding concepts with more complexity (details, multiple perspective, big ideas, and unanswered questions).
We compared and contrasted, using a Venn diagram, the books, Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians by Jackie Hopkins to the classic fairytale, Goldilocks and The Three Bears, which helped us understand what “just right book” reading (an important skill for all scholars) was all about. This book was a great way to launch picking just right books for independent reading during our "Reading Workshop" in third grade.
Through an inductive lesson we created our classroom motto. It was a novel way to explore expectations by building on our own knowledge.
Math
We started this week's lessons using the research developed by Jo Boaler, from Stanford University, about Growth Mindset. The scholars were fascinated by how our brain grows when we make mathematical mistakes. We watched and discussed the following inspirational math video.- Mistakes are beautiful things
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