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You may not remember that another site you can use to practice Wordly Wise words is Kubbu. Click the crossword puzzle below to try one out for lesson 8.
Your username will be your teacher's name: nealkel
Your password will be your Reading Counts password.
Have fun! :)
Today was a fun-filled, busy day. :) I thought you might like a little support with our math lesson. These animations will help. Today, Mrs. Haneke taught the class the difference between rays, line segments, and lines.
Click each picture below to learn about them (and then press the play button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen):
Mrs. Haneke also introduced the newest Wordly Wise words. You can find them on BrainFlips here.
This afternoon, I assigned a set of reading questions for the Dan Gutman book you are reading. I will be happy to get that to you when you return.
We also had a visit from a local author, who shared her knowledge of the Henry B. Plant Museum. She even shared copies of her book with the entire class! Your copy is waiting for you in your mailbox.
We hope to see you at school tomorrow! We've missed you!
We studied our new words from Lesson 8 in Wordly Wise today...and one of the words was
DESCEND
To demonstrate the meaning of the word (plus its opposite, ascend) we watched this fun video from Volkswagen.
You can see a bit more of their innovative experiments at The Fun Theory website.
Kubbu is a website you can access from the third grade page. It is a site with practice activities for Wordly Wise.
You can also click the icon below to access the site.
Sign in by typing in your teacher's username: nealkel
and your Reading Counts password.
Once logged in, you'll see this menu:
Choose "practice activities" to access the review games. Each lesson has a different activity: domino matching or a crossword puzzle.
After you select the lesson (lesson six for this week), you'll see an option like this:
If you select "familiarize", you'll practice with flashcards.
If you select "solve", you'll be able to practice matching dominoes.
I hope you enjoy it!
Don't forget, there are other options for Wordly Wise practice located here.
LANGUAGE ARTS: This morning, I introduced the Wordly Wise words for Lesson Four. You can do the same by viewing the flashcards located here.
We also talked about how great authors like Roald Dahl are able to "show" us what's happening in a book, rather than just telling us. He wrote a particularly interesting chapter in his book The Twits about how dirty Mr. Twit's beard was. It was pretty awful!
If you check out this slide show, you'll understand more about what we discussed:
MATH: We held a math test today as a review of Unit 2. You can complete that when you come back to school tomorrow.
READING: Students watched this slide show about how to complete the job "Word Wizard". Then, they silently read chapters 5 and 6 from Manatee Blues. Their job was to locate at least two words that were interesting or challenging to share with the class and after reading the selection, complete the Word Wizard worksheet which you will receive tomorrow.
SCIENCE: Tomorrow we will be creating a trading card for the ocean creature you studied last week in the library. I gave a brief overview of what will be on the card (a picture, title, a description of an adaptation the creature has, and any other interesting facts you learned). I also shared with the class the checklist you'll have on hand tomorrow to help keep you organized. I posted an example of mine right here. --------------->By clicking the picture below, you can review animal adaptations with a quiz.
This afternoon, Mrs. Driscoll got us started on our "All About Berkeley" film. Teams were developed and topics assigned. Groups worked together to begin their story boards...planning the order of their film. We are very excited to get to work!
National Geographic Fun
Lesson 16- Wordly Wise
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Wordly Wise Lesson 15
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You can try a crossword at Kubbu, too. Just remember your teacher name as nealkel.
You can try a crossword at Kubbu, too. Just remember your teacher name as nealkel.
Lesson 14, Wordly Wise
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Remember, you can check out Kubbu's website to practice your vocabulary words, too.
Lesson 12 Wordly Wise
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Lesson 11- Wordly Wise
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Lesson 10
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Check out the latest Wordly Wise introduction from this week and practice your new words by playing on Kubbu from time to time. The test won't be for another week, but have fun reviewing the words until then.
Although we do not have spelling homework this year, it is still a great idea to review your spelling knowledge from time to time. You can find a few challenging games below:
Have fun!
If you are looking for a little extra practice with Wordly Wise this week (lesson 7), log on to Kubbu by clicking the picture above. While there you can practice with virtual flashcards and matching activities. The site is also available on the third grade page. When logging in, remember:
Teacher Name: nealkel
Password: Your permapassword (used for KerPoof)
There are other games available here as well.
Have fun!
Happy New Year!
Today's been a full day! I introduced the newest vocabulary words in Wordly Wise. You can review their meanings below.
Lesson 7
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We also entered five new spelling words into our Spelling Dictionaries:
knew, new, won, wear, where
During math, we first reviewed the multiplication facts. This was prettier before I uploaded it to Slideshare, but perhaps it can still be helpful when practicing your math facts.
The math lesson focused on reading large numbers (into the ten thousands). There is a tutorial here that might help, and you can also use this site or this one for a review. There is a fun game here from Toon University you might enjoy.
I also like the games Guess My Number, Place a Number, and Place a Number II.
After lunch, we shar
ed a few blogs that hadn't been shared yet. We also talked about our next Social Studies project: Explorers. The students named a few famous explorers they remembered such as...
After we discussed why explorers might have been interested in traveling to unknown areas of the world, we watched a video about Christopher Columbus from History's Mysteries. It was a lot of fun!
This afternoon we talked about our Reading Counts goals for the year and calculated how many points everyone would need to earn each month in order to reach those goals. It helped everyone set appropriate goals for January.
At the end of the day we visited the library for a bit of silent reading and discussed the results of our lima bean/plaster experiment from last month. Evidently plants DO have the power to make rock crack and crumble! There will be more about that later, but you can check out some examples of weathering here in the meantime.
Lesson 6
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After we completed the Caught Ya, we reviewed the wordly wise words for next week. The power point is below and the words can be reviewed here.
Lesson 5
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We also reviewed the spelling words through a game (always, especially, laughed, myself, whole) and the next page in our cursive books.
For math, we completed an experiment. If we were to toss one of six pattern blocks 50 times, which one would be more likely to land on its edge? We made predictions, then tested our theories to find out. The three pattern blocks we started with were the square, the triangle and the trapezoid. The other three blocks were "doubled up". Two triangles were taped together, as were two trapezoids and two squares. Do you think that by doubling the pattern block the chances of it landing on its edge increased?
After this, we discussed a line plot, which is pictured in the power point below. After looking at it carefully, we found the median, range, maximum and minimum of the data.
Math 3 5
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This afternoon we held rotation. Your group finished reading their assigned section, so they voted to read more about the Timucua religion and their beliefs in magic. (Pages 96 and 97) We read it together and took notes on a new page.
Seatwork included many things. Students were given a list of things to accomplish including:
1. Pet Show Draft on I Can Write Online
2. Complete the food chain artwork (check the rubric)
3. Math journal page 65 and 66
4. Finish Manatee Blues comic strip
All of these items are located in your math journal and will come home for you today.
We hope you are feeling better! See you soon!
Mrs. Neal
