Mrs. Skeen’s 3rd Grade Class

Reading: Our focus book this week is “Moon Cakes”. This wonderful story with folktales is going to be one of our favorites! We will learn the following vocabulary to go with it: ( 3.1C,D,E; 3.3;; 3.9A; 3.8A,B,C; 3.7C,D; 3.10A,B)

https://youtu.be/K0_KqusT0W8

We will have a test on Friday over these words. We also have the following high frequency words: everything, against, circle, beautiful, important, teacher, dream, simple, deep, outside. There will be a quick check on Friday over these words as well.

Language Arts: Our spelling patterns this week are: (3.9Di, ii; 3.11A,Diii, vii, x,xi; 3.2ii)

beginning sounds: bl_,cl_, cr_

Ending sounds: _sh, _st, _ck, _nk

Vowels: short

Social Studies: We are still continuing our landforms learning. This week, students will make a Google Slide Presentation presenting their landform. (TEKS 3.4, 3.5)

This week in reading, we will read the story In My Momma’s Kitchen. We will discuss family traditions and make a family traditions quilt. It will be neat to see what everyone’s family traditions are. (3.1C,D,E 3.3; 3.6A 3.9D; 3.8B; 3.7C,D, 3.10D,E)

Our vocabulary words for the week: melody, scrapes, dribbles, inform, burst, serenade, gestures, frantic, squirmed, blooming, proud

To practice these words I have made a Quizlet. Students can go on their Google Classroom at home and find the link. We also practice these multiple times during the week. https://quizlet.com/_700v0x

For spelling we are trying something new. A letter went home Friday about the changes in Spelling and how students will be creating their own tests on Fridays. Here is what we will be looking for. Can they follow the spelling pattern? (3.9Di, ii, 3.11A,Diii, vii, x,xi, 3.2ii)

Beginning blends middle short vowels ending blends

BEGINNING    MIDDLE .  ENDING
sh_               a,e,i,o,u            _sh
th_                                        _mp
ch_                                       _nk
scr_                                      _tch
shr_

Example words:
shrimp
chimp
thank

In Social Studies we will continue researching about landforms. Students will pick a landform to build this week. (3.4, 3.5)
www.facts4me.com 
username: white
password: oak

Today during Reading, we responded to the text Under the Lemon Moon. Students went on a website called Padlet, and responded to the prompt.

See our responses below!

Skeen Homeroom:   https://padlet.com/skeens/ekjr4so20jgn

Hamrick Homeroom:  https://padlet.com/skeens/f9lahwdar4yd

Reading: Our focus book is “Under the Lemon Moon”. We will learn the following vocabulary words (3.3B): perched, eased, stump, scarecrow, lugged, quiver, wobbled, rumor, content, lush, stalls, hunched. We will also practice the following high frequency words: night, under, deep, grow, father, children, circle, baby, sick and clothes. Our vocabulary and high frequency words will be graded on Friday. We are also working on the following Reading Skills: 3.1C,D and E (speaking coherently about a topic); 3.8B (characters and interactions); 3.7C,D (retelling a story and sequencing).

Language Arts: We are working with short vowel sounds (3.2Aii, iii), as well as adding beginning and ending blends (digraphs and trigraphs)  to make words. These will NOT BE TESTED this week. Our spelling tests will start next week. Be looking for a letter about our spelling for this year in 3rd grade!

Social Studies: We are starting one of my favorite skills: LANDFORMS! We will research, learn and create a landform project. Landform vocabulary is: mountain, hill, cliff, mesa, cave, delta, canyon, island, lake, river, ocean, plain and valley. I can’t wait to see what these kiddos come up with!

IMPORTANT DATES COMING UP!

Sept. 6: PEP RALLY and Friday Fun clubs.

Sept. 19: Picture Day! more info to come home later.

Reading: We are reading Sophie’s Masterpiece, as our focus book. We will work on these high frequency words: young, problem, work, baby, first, window, beautiful, money, thought, and wanted. We will work on these vocabulary words from the story: boarding house, ordinary, dull, wondrous, playmate and wearily. Our nonfiction story this week is Meerkat Day. We will learn new nonfiction text features with this text. Our Reading TEKS for this week are: 3.1C,D,E; 3.2C; 3.6A,B,C,F; 3.8A,B,C; 3.10A,E. These TEKS cover: theme, inference, vocabulary, making connections and author’s purpose.

Language Arts: We are working on subject/verb agreement in writing. We are also continuing our review of nouns, verbs, adjectives and punctuation. We will practice this with responding to our focus story. We will also practice our short vowel sounds as our spelling pattern for this week. Our TEKS are 3.9Di, ii and 3.11A,Diii, vii, x,xi.

Social Studies: We will continue with map skills and location. Our TEKS are 3.4 and 3.5.

Important information:

Parents can begin eating with students on September 9.

First Pep Rally is this Friday at 3:00. Students can be picked up starting at 2:30, from our gym. Please send a note if your child will be attending the pep rally.

I will also begin sending home Daily Reading Logs.  Please read with your child for 20 minutes nightly and complete the log.  I will be letting the kids check out books from our classroom library, please make sure they are returned daily.

We’ve had a great first two days of school. We read the book The Little Spot of Kindness. Students got their own dot of kindness and we discussed the importance of being kind and what that looks like.

Students also made their Brag Swag necklaces and earned their first bead and tag. This will be a big part of our classroom management this year. I look forward in all students earning tags and beads!

During this second week of school we will be reading the books Enemy Pie and The Can Man. We will be focussing on character traits, problem and solution, and learning how to use a dictionary to look up unfamiliar words.

In Social Studies we will be looking at maps and creating our own maps and directions for the school.

Reminder of our Enhancement schedule: M-Music T-Healthy Bodies W-PE  TH- PE . F-Computer

Welcome to Mrs. Skeen’s 3rd grade blog.

I am so excited that you are here and reading this. I wanted to remind you all that Meet the Teacher is Tuesday, August 13 from 4:30-5:30.  Don’t forget to bring your school supplies!

We have been planning many fun and engaging activities for you this week!

Mrs. Skeen

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