Mrs. Nelson Leading The Parade

Native Work

Native American Halloween

The third grade class has been busily learning about Native American tribes. Students have been researching different aspects of their tribes, organizing their notes, and placing them in a color coded graphic organizer. They should be all ready to begin typing their revised drafts in another week and placing their work in a power point presentation. Below you will find pictures of the masks they created and also pictures of our Native American Halloween party which featured traditional food and games.

Fun Writing Activity

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html

Salmon Fest

Eating Lunch

10-19

Dear Parents,

We have had so much fun this week and we want to tell you about it. One reason it has been an enjoyable week is because we have started making moccasins. They are made out of crushed brown paper bags. Each of us have our own kind of moccasins because the tribes are different. It is hard making them but they will be fantastic when they are finished. Another reason the week has been great is because we have learned how to write a conclusion. We learned a conclusion reminds the reader about the topic. Our class is doing a great job learning this skill. Finally we recorded our classification song in music. All of us sounded great and we enjoyed recording ourselves. Clearly you can see we had a very busy and wonderful week.

Sincerely,

Your Angel

Practice Guide For Writing

http://www.sjsd.k12.mo.us/Schools/skaith/maugh/pages/resources/step_up_to_writing/online_practice_guide.html

9/14/07

9/14/07

Dear Parents,

Hi how are you all doing? We are doing great because we are learning a lot. In this letter we are going to tell you about a few of the interesting things we have been doing.

First we have finished creating our third grade verse for the school song. It was fun making it and we all look forward to singing the song. In the verse all of our names are sung.

Next we have been working on our classification project. We have been making posters that tell about the different classes of animals. These classifications are mammals, insects, fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Our class even made up a song about the different classes.

Finally in writing we have been learning about organization. We have written and read many topic sentences and learned how to create three different hooks. The hooks are a riddle, question, and statement. All of us are going to be awesome writers.

So, now you know what we have done in our class this week and you also understand why we have been so busy.

Thanks for reading

September 7, 2007

Dear Parents,

What a week we have had! First we have been learning about classification. Classification is how you separate one animal that is different from another. Our class has been divided into different groups and we are becoming experts about different classification. We have even made up a song to help us remember about classification. Another event that has happened this week is we had our first spelling test. Our class scored a total of 125 words correct. We did well but we need to practice. Finally in Mrs. Tompson’s room we have been learning about cursive and typing. On the computers we have learned about home row. Soon we will out type you! Thank you for reading our letter. We hope you have learned a little bit about our week.

Sincerely,

Your Kid

PS

Thanks for making sure your student has been doing their homework. We had all the homework returned this week!

Aug 30

Aug. 31, 2007

Dear Parents,

We have been learning lots of stuff. This week we started to learn about math. We did addition and subtraction timed tests, that we need to study for homework. They are in our binders. Our class also worked to finish number patterns and a unit math pretest.

This week we also made a collage. The collage showed what our class likes to do. We hung our cutout people in the hall.

Another thing we did is we spent time working to organize ourselves. We put together our binders and learned about what is the classroom. We also learned what our jobs are and different procedures for our room.

Thank you parents for reading our letter.

Sincerely,

Your Students