Here is a slide from our lesson on how Non fiction texts can be organized by categories using the model text Eye to Eye.

One of our March Madness Book Championship Matchups

Here is the road trip project we are working on for social studies!

Here is the SEL book we read this week about 5 different voice levels that would be a great book to check out from your local library and read with your child.

2021 Decatur March Madness Book Championship Bracket

Here is a list of the things we need as a class to make our community a place where all students can be successful and feel valued

This week in Social Studies, we learned about the West Region and created flap books about what we learned.

More student flap book examples

Check out some of our work on the West Region in the form of a flap book

Students learned this week about the TPCASTT method for poetry analysis

This week the 3rd graders listened to the story The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig and discussed how it is easy to feel invisible during remote learning.  Then students worked on finding ways to feel their classmates or friends feel less invisible.

Students created awards Oscar or Academy Awards style about the main characters in Tuck Everlasting based on what they were most known for in the story.

Students worked on their Fantastic Mr. Fox final project choice board this week.  They could choose between projects like making an invitation to the feast Mr. Fox put on; creating trading cards for each of the main characters, or creating a fake Instagram account of the character of their choosing with images the character would have posted to their account. 

3rd graders investigated the history of the Southwest Region of the US.