Today, we read Halloween Soup and illustrated it before we put it on our binders.
Every Tuesday as students enter the classroom, they get a poem to put in their binders. We read over the new poem and the super hero of the week picks another poem to read. We sometimes read in silly voices or break into groups and read the poems together. We do this to help with our reading fluency. Our reading should not be choppy, but be flowing and with expression as we stop at periods and pause at commas. Later in the year, we dig through our poems for spelling words that will fit our spelling pattern or four verbs or contractions.
Today, we read Halloween Soup and illustrated it before we put it on our binders.
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our Super hero from Mrs. Woller's class was Joli. She could often be seen with her cape fluttering behind her. She shared her colorful poster and read a book to our class. Thanks, Joli!
Ella was our wonderful super hero this week! She shared her awesome poster and read a story to our class. Thanks, Ella for being an amazing super hero every day!
What a wonderful and busy Friday. Students practiced and took a spelling test, enjoyed their popcorn that they earned for getting 10 wildcat hero tickets, worked on publishing their personal narratives, walked to the high school for a homecoming pep assembly where kids dressed up Mr. Henderson as Justin Bieber, and did a bat painting craft to end the day. Phew! Rest up kids, we got a busy week of learning ahead of us, too!
I always struggle as a teacher when it comes to students peer editing stories. I think it is because writing is such a personal thing and to have someone comment on it makes the writer very vulnerable. It is also tricky to have third graders do it in a constructive way and take their responsibility seriously. Their partners are counting on them for some help in their writing! Yesterday, we read over many examples of personal narratives and discussed if they would have earned a 4,3,2, or 1 on the writing rubric. We had very good discussions! Then students read through their stories and edited for content by adding details, talking, and descriptive words. Writers then had to say that their story looked most like the 4,3,2, or 1 and write why they thought that. They then needed to write something that they were going to try to do on their next personal narrative. They did a great job at self-assessing! Today, we edited for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization. Students first did it on their own, and then they got with a partner and went through their stories again. I was so impressed with how seriously students took their jobs to be editors! It was wonderful to see. Here are some pictures of the writing that we discussed. It will also give you examples of what a third grader should be writing. We decided that this would have earned a 1. We talked about how it isn't a small moment or a seed story and there is no description. It is more like a summary than like a story. Although this still lacks a lot of detail, we talked about how it is at least a small moment. It isn't about Halloween, rather about making their Halloween costume. It needs more detail, a catchy beginning and a strong ending. This was a 1.5 or maybe a 2. We thought this would earn a 3. A 3 is right where they need to be. It has paragraphs, dialogue, and the writer worked on the ending, so it doesn't just say "The End." It could have had a catchier lead and even more detail. This is a 4! It has it all! And wow- a 4 is above and beyond what is expected. Here are some pictures of the students taking their editing job seriously and helping another student out. our rough drafts are getting sloppy with all our revising and editing. Time to polish them up and work on publishing our final copies.
I bopped across the hall last week and took a few pictures of students working on building arrays with chips and writing the equation on their dry erase boards. Today, a paper was attached to the newsletter giving some examples of some multiplication vocabulary.
Riley was our super hero this week! He wore a couple capes, read us a funny Fly Guy book, got his bucket filled and made a super poster. Way to go Riley!
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