Safe Search Engines for Kids

Here are the search engines we will use to help us research our informational writing topics.  You may find that one site works for your topic better than another.  Remember to jot down fact ideas.  Be careful not to copy exactly what another author wrote.  Use your own words!

Kid Rex

Safe Search for Kids

National Geographic for Kids

Narrative Celebration

Today we celebrated everything we now know about Narrative writing!  We heard stories from our very own authors and shared popsicles together.  Next week we embark on our Informational writing journey!

Deep Thinking Readers

We are working on digging deep with our characters.  We are stopping and jotting about patterns we see in their behavior to try and build theories about them using evidence.  We are also working on lifting the level of our thinking on our stop and jots.  Check out our thinking rubric!

Making Our Mark

After reading, the dot, by Peter Reynolds, we were inspired to jot down how we would make our marks this year as 3rd graders!

Addition

We have been working with 'collection cards' in Math Workshop. Each 'collection card' has a quantity that matches the amount in the collection.  These quantities have helped guide our practice with addition.  Check out some of the strategy work that went on in our workshop today while we were comparing collections.  These pictures showcase the many ways to solve one problem.  We have some brilliant thinkers in our class!

Bulletin Boards

Come by and check out our new standards based bulletin board.  We change these quarterly to update and showcase the work that is going on in our classroom.  This particular board is based around our notebooks.  We use notebooks for all of our workshops and we do believe they are great and powerful!  

Reading Resolutions

We made reading resolutions in Reader's Workshop to help us build our new 3rd grade reading lives!  From this moment on, as readers, we will...