Happy Summer!

What a great end of year field trip we had! Have a GREAT and safe summer break! Don't forget to Sharpen the Saw!

5/4 - 5/8 Spelling & Vocab. Words

Spelling Words - /s/ and /j/ words:  since, sauce, safe, sink, nice, gym, germ, magic, age, gentle, hinge, cellar, second, cider, largest

Vocabulary Words: 
 decade - period of ten years
 inspired - filled with a strong, encouraging feeling 
befriended - became friends with 
replenish - to fill up again 
recollection - something remembered, memories

4/27 - 5/1 Spelling & Vocab. Words

Click here to see our spelling words and vocabulary words. This week's story is "The Keeping Quilt".

Pen Pal Visit!

Thanks so much to our Truman pen pals for visiting us today! Ms. Hunt was SO proud of how our 3rd graders shared how Daily 5 works. Thanks for the yummy treats, a wonderful visit, and for helping us grow as writers this year, pen pals! :)

PenPalVisit.pdf

4/13 - 4/17 Spelling & Vocab. Words

Click here for a link to "Storm in the Night"'s spelling and vocabulary words.

4/6 - 4/10 Spelling Words

Click here for a link to this week's spelling & vocabulary words, along with a summary of this week's story - "Oral History".

3/30 - 4/2 Spelling Words

Click here for a link to this week's spelling & vocabulary words for our story, "A Story, A Story". This is the first week of Unit 5: Storytelling.

Social Studies: 3 Branches of Government WebQuest

Click HERE for to see our webquest.

This next week we will be doing a “webquest”, which is online research using teacher approved links. Your child will become an “expert” in one of the 3 branches of government and then report back to their “home” group to make a poster about all 3 branches and how they work together to make, enforce, and evaluate laws. 

3/23 - 3/27 Spelling Words

Click here for a link to this week's spelling & vocab. words as well as a summary of our story this week: "Uncle Jed's Barbershop".

3/16 - 3/20 Spelling/Vocab Words

Click here for a link to this week's spelling words, vocabulary words, and a summary of "The Go-Around Dollar" (this week's story).

3/2 - 3/6 Spelling Words

Adding -ed & -ing

making 
biting 
diving 
hiking 
skated

prized 
shaking 
skating 
hiding 
shining

thinking 
entered 
opened 
passing 
safekeeping

2/23 - 2/27 Spelling Words

contractions: 'll, 'd, 's, 'm, and n't
he'll
she'll
we'll 
they'll
you'll
I'd
we'd
you'd
she'd
it's
he's
what's
that's
I'm
can't

Valentine's Party

We had a great time at our Valentine's Party on Friday! Thanks to all who brought in treats and helped out. 

A Look at our Daily 5 Time!

Take a look into our Daily 5 literacy workshop time! We continue to work hard to be independent readers and writers through our hour long daily literacy "centers" each day.

1/19 - 1/23 Spelling Words

o_e, oa, and o words:

cone
vote
spoke
froze
chose
coal
goal
soap
choke
goat
over
alone
noses
most
old

1/13 - 1/16 Spelling Words

i_e & igh words:

line
pipe
wise
smile
glide
fine
wide
time
high
sigh
fright
sight
light
right
night

1/5 - 1/9 Spelling Words

ea and ee
neat
deal
clean
please
beast
keep
street
seen
easy
creek
eat
hearing
feel
real
tree