Book Project Workshops

The students have been busy working on their projects. All classes have been given three workshop days in class to get some of their projects completed. Can't wait to see the finished products!

Book Report Project Options

Thankful List

Thankful List

http://youtu.be/dbo8xC_6kBc

Veterans Day Assembly

Close Reading

Students are learning all about folktales. To encourage speaking and listening skills, students worked in small groups where they each read their own individual passage. Once they finished, they discussed the similarities and differences in their stories and talked about how the themes overlapped.

Dictionaries!

The Rotary Club of Hamilton generously donated dictionaries to all of our third graders again this year. The students loved receiving the dictionaries and have been using them almost daily. 

Ridgeway Elementary is the 150th Wild School Site

Today our school was recognized as a wild school site by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Through the help and work done by the Ridgeway Green Team, they have created nature trails and outdoor classrooms in addition to help preserving the wildlife on our school property. 

Halloween Fun

Students learned about cinquain poetry and wrote their own Halloween themed cinquain poems. Then they typed their poems on chrome books.

Veterans Day Activities

Our students began talking about Veterans Day last week. We reviewed what they knew, what they wanted to discover, and recorded what they learned after our lesson.

Then students wrote about veterans in their writers notebooks.

Fun Fall Poems- using and writing metaphors

Students had a fun learning about metaphors this week. Student generated a large graphic organizer about fall using their five senses to help them. They then took inspiration from their graphic organizer to create a short poem about fall. Students wrote five metaphors for each of their poems. The students were shining stars again today!

Figurative Language: Similes

Students learned about similes today (comparing two things using the words "like" or "as"). They practiced by writing their own similes describing ice cream. 

Daily Five Math Stations

We have now begun doing four of our daily five math stations in class.  Students have been hard at work with our differentiation, reading and writing about math, technology, and partner math stations. This week we are playing math man in technology to review rounding and addition war in partner math.

Student Showcase.

As you've probably (and hopefully) seen by now, our third graders are writing daily responses to their required reading for homework. Students are working on there reading response journals all year. Over the past few weeks, there have been some exemplary entries. With student permission, we are showcasing some journal entries that include complete sentences, interesting details, nice handwriting, and overall excellent quality. Way to go, third graders! Keep up the good work!

ABC Order Fun

Students worked in small groups to practice sorting things into alphabetical order. We practiced this by putting their names in alphabetical order.