Writing Notebook Post-Its Are Back!

Dear Third Grade families,

Spring is here!  I am so happy that we have made it through the ELA state tests.  I can now resume the grading of the writing notebooks!  So please revisit the notebook turn-in schedule at the bottom of this blog post, so your child will know when to turn in their notebook to me. (We are currently on B week.) I did not expect them to write during the week of the ELA, but I did expect them to write for the rest of the month of March, and I do expect them to write this week, of course.  Please have your child go through their notebook and choose one or two entries that I MUST read when I grade it.  Fold that page in, so I’ll know it is important.

We will be starting a non-fiction writing unit on Animal Adaptations.  The big idea of the unit is: To survive, animals adapt to their environment. You can help your child get a broader understanding of our key vocabulary words for the unit by talking about them in different contexts. Those words are: adapt, survival, environment and characteristics.

You might ask your child how the character in his or her book is adapting to the situation they are in.  Or you may ask your child how they are adapting to their new bedroom or their new hockey team or their new baby sibling.  Maybe you talk about the different characteristics of the outfit they chose that morning.

These are the poems for this week and next: