Figurative Language Fun!

We have been discussing figurative language in reading this week!  Today we talked about idioms!  We quickly realized they do not mean exactly what they say!!  We made an idiom book as a class!  We each drew an idiom out of the bag and had to draw a picture of what it would look like if it really did mean what it said and then write down what it actually means!  Here are some pictures of us hard at work!

Homer Visit!

Here are some photos of us enjoying Homer in class today!  I think it was as much of a celebration for Homer as it was for third grade! :)

Pajama Day!

We have earned a whole class reward for positive behavior when the substitute was here!  We will be having a pajama day tomorrow and my dog Homer will be coming to visit for part of the afternoon!

Thanks!

Cross Pollination Models!

We started working on making accurate bee and plant models today.  With a partner we will use these models to explain cross pollination to other students!  Since we just cross pollinated our fast plants we are pros at this!  We went over the rubric then the students got to channel their creativity and make their own!  Here are some pictures of us getting started!

Fractured Fairy Tales

Today we performed for our class!  We have been practicing 4 different fractured fairy tales in groups!  We got to showcase them this afternoon!  We did a wonderful job!  It was nice to see how many students used skills we have been working on in class when we do reader's theater in their performance!

I Can Compare and Contrast!

We have been working on comparing and contrasting in literacy over the last week.  Today we worked on comparing and contrasting two tall tales!  We had to think about the characters and plots of the two stories and how they were similar and different!  Here are some pictures of us hard at work!

Literacy Groups!

Here are some pictures of us working with our reading groups!  We spent some time reading with Mrs. Young, some time reading with our group and some time reading to ourselves!

Craft Activities

Here are a couple pictures of craft activities we have done in the last few weeks!

Lattice Multiplication

Hello!

We have learned another new way to multiply!  We focused on using the lattice method for multiplying 2-digit by 1-digit numbers, our homework tonight will be practicing this same skill.  I am attaching two videos for you today.  The first video is showing how to multiply by 1 digit, the second one will help with tomorrow and Thursday homework when we move onto multiplying by 2-digit numbers!  I hope this helps!  Please let me know if you have any questions!

Lattice Video- Multiplying by 1-digit

Lattice Video- Multiplying by 2-digits

Thanks,

Mrs. Young