The Juice Box Bully

We need UPSTANDERS not BYSTANDERS!
#bookaday

Homework Alert

Students! You have a Venn Diagram to finish for social studies.
You need at least 5 things for "people of the past" and 5 things for "People today." As well as 3 things for the middle section, which is common to both people in the past and people today. You should be writing it in full sentences! I have posted the sheet on Class Dojo if it somehow doesn't make it home, ask your parents!

There are pictures below you can review or check more into if you need help comparing the two!!

The Recess Queen

#bookaday challenge - Still on the Anti-Bullying Month with this one with a "Mean Jean!"

Ancient Civilizations

Take a look at these pictures depicting the lives in ancient civilizations. We are going to be talking about ancient history... what does history even mean?

Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon

Our #bookaday readaloud for today - We will be reading a book a day (especially for our Spring into Reading Month!)

Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon

New Math Masters!

A belated congrats to Evan for passing addition and congratulations to Emily, she's flew through subtraction and multiplication!! Wow!!

Math Homework

All questions due on Monday!

Be Kind

My Mouth is a Volcano!

We have a couple "Volcano Mouths" in our classroom, what can we do so our mouths don't erupt?

Sound can be absorbed and reflected

Two more properties of sound:
1. Sound can be absorbed
2. Sound can be reflected (also known as an ECHO!)

Stick and Stone

We read and discussed this book today.. here is is so you can share it with family and friends!

Math Homework

Reminder: you should ALSO be reading EVERY night on Raz Kids!! Plus practicing your flashcards and/or XtraMath! The more you practice the better you get.. at everything!

FANBOYS

For - And - Nor - But - Or - Yet - So

Congrats to Emily and Christian!!

Christian is our first master of subtraction and Emily is our newest master of addition!! Good job guys!! And some of you are sooooo close to joining them!! Keep up the good work :)

Math Homework

Incase the worksheets never made it home:

Math Homework for Tonight

I've made a few notes for some of the students in their books that they need to fix. Here is the homework page. They need to do 3-6 and use our estimation strategies, not just add it.

Due Friday.

Addition & Estimation

Alright, I've had a change to look over our Addition Math pretests! Most of you did amazing! Some of you already know a lot of the concepts we will be covering this year! Yay!! However, there were a couple places we struggled.

Did you know that the words sum, add, addition, plus are all SYNONYMS!! This means they all mean the same thing! We want to find the SUM of two or more numbers, we find it by doing ADDITION!
Here is a few more that you can look for in your word problems/story problems:

Estimation was somewhere many of us struggled with, so that is what we will be learning about today.

When we estimate a number, we are making a guess at what the number will be close to by using clues that are provided.

For example: If I want to estimate about how many beads I have to make a necklace. I have 34 BLUE beads, 79 PURPLE beads, 29 GREEN beads, and 56 ORANGE beads, I can round these numbers to make it easier for me to add in my head:

Around:
30 Blue beads
80 Purple beads
30 Green beads
60 Orange beads
I can now add in my head: 30+80+30+60 is around 200 beads! 

What about for the larger numbers we have been using?

Mr. Dan had 1445 books and Mrs. Taylor had 791 books. Estimate how many books the grade 3 teachers had altogether.

We can estimate to the nearest 1000, nearest 500, and nearest 100.

Nearest 1000:
Mr. Dan has about 1000 books and Mrs. Taylor has about 1000 books, so they have around 2000 books altogether. 
Nearest 500:
Mr. Dan has about 1500 books and Mrs. Taylor has about 1000 books, so they have around 2500 books altogether
Nearest 100:
Mr. Dan has about 1400 books and Mrs. Taylor has about 800 books, so they have around 2400 books altogether.

Which estimation is the closest or most accurate?

For some extra help head over to BrainPop for videos and games:
https://www.brainpop.com/math/geometryandmeasurement/estimating/
or Scholastic Study Jams
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/math/addition-subtraction/estimate-sums-diffs.htm

Sentence Fragments - Synonyms & Antonyms

We are on Day 2 of our Weekly Language Review!

On Day 2 we learn about:

1. Root Words: This is the word without a suffix or prefix - like the word "Elect" is the root word of "Election" or "Dance" is the root word of dancing, danced, dances.
2. Idioms: A combination of words that have a different FIGURATIVE meaning than the implied LITERAL meaning. For example, when we say "Cool as a cucumber" we don't mean you are cold like a cucumber that has been in the fridge.. we mean your are stay cool or chill, not freaking out!
3. Synonyms: We can use a thesaurus to find the synonyms of words. Synonyms are other words we can use that mean the same thing. For example for funny we can use: hillarious, or goofy, or comedy.
4. Antonyms are the opposite of synonyms - they mean the opposite of the word - For example the opposite of cool is warm, happy and sad, mean and nice.

Sentence Fragments

Remember: A subject is what we are talking about in our sentence, and a predicate is what the subject is doing (usually a verb or action word). To have a complete sentence we need both the subject and predicate or we call it a sentence fragment!

Homework Alert

Students have a worksheet to do for homework tonight on Subjects and Predicates.
Please see below for visual on subject and predicate, there is also a little blurb at the top of the sheet. We completed some in class today. This is extra practice so we can move onto something else tomorrow!

This is work that will help us build sentences, complete sentences!! Seeing you all heard my blurb on why we need to have complete sentences! Please check out the video below if you are unclear on sentence fragments and subject & predicate (verb),

Punctuation

Language Review:

Subject: who or what the sentence is about

Predicate:  tells about that subject

Adjective: a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or loud.

Noun: a word used to identify a person, place, or thing

Verb: an action word: jumping, running, writing.