Third Grade Tweets

My third graders were excited when I posted my Third Grade Tweets door for them to write on.  Each child has their own tweet board that I wrote their name on, and there is a card that tells them the "tweet topic of the day'.  I will probably change the topic once a week for the kids.  I have posted the different papers as a freebie on my TpT store, and also included a header for fourth and fifth grades.

Me On A Map

We have been doing a mini unit to review maps and map skills.  The students created their own poster to show where they are on a map, including themselves, their street, town, state, country, continent and planet.  They also created a world map labeling the continents.  We took each child's picture with them pretending to hold up the world and added that to their posters.  The final products turned out nicely, and were something the kids said they wanted their parents to look at during Back to School Night.  I put the templates up as a freebie on TpT.

Mad Libs

We are reviewing sentences and parts of speech this week, and what better way to do that than with some Mad Libs!  I always love seeing the silly outcomes, but it is so hard to be creative when the story is right there in front of you.  So, I created my own set of four, school-themed Mad Libs (Lunch Time, In the Library, Time for Recess, and Substitute Teacher) and made separate recording sheets for the kids to fill in before they write the answers into their stories.  I can check their understanding of the parts of speech that way, too.  I'm looking forward to their silly stories!  You can find all four stories with the recording sheets on my TpT store.

Dodecahedrons

It has been a busy first week of school.  After just 6 days, it already feels like we are well into the swing of things.  We spent some time doing 'get to know you' activities, including creating group dodecahedrons.  The kids had fun trying to figure out THAT word, especially when I wrote it in cursive for them!

Students worked together in groups of 4 to complete one dodecahedron.  First, each group worked together to complete the 4 sides with questions.  Then, each child in the group completed two sides independently (one with their name/picture, and one about what makes them unique).  Each group ended up with a total of 12 sides.

Once all of the sides were completed, students worked together to cut out the circles, and fold on the lines with the tabs being folded up.  Some students found that they were better cutters, and others were better at folding, so they had little production lines set up.  Once they had all of the sides folded, I went around and stapled the tabs together to create the 3 dimensional shape.

The day after I hung them up, two of my students were doing read to someone and reading a fact book about insects.  It was an interesting conversation to listen to as one of them realized that the compound eyes of the dragonfly looked similar to our dodecahedrons.

If you would like a copy of the dodecahedron, you can find it on my TpT store.

Writing Process

Monday we are introducing the writing process, so I created a poster outlining the steps of the writing process.  I also made a b&w version for the students to keep in their writing binder, and a tracking sheet where they can document what they are accomplishing each day.  I also created an I Pick poster since we are introducing that during Daily 5.  Both of these resources are available on my TpT store.