Poetry Pause

During class today, we paused for a minute to look at a poem. We discussed what a poem can 'look like' and what it can 'sound like.' The students had many great ideas about this! Here is a picture of some of the work we did with the poem, Under the Ground.

Here is another poem to read and enjoy. Please add a comment with your name that explains how you know that SEEDS is a poem. Use information from the text and your own ideas to support your answer.

Gr 4 Words

Grade Three Sight Words

Parents, please find below a list of sight words for grade three. You may wish to review these words with your child and have them practice reading them and writing them. There is a link that has flash cards for the words and some games that you can play. If they've mastered the grade three words, feel free to move on to the grade four ones.

about	better	bring	carry
clean	cut	done	draw
drink	eight	fall	far
full	got	grow	hold
hot	hurt	if	keep
kind	laugh	light	long
much	myself	never	only
own	pick	seven	shall
show	six	small	start
ten	today	together	try
warm

http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/grade3.htm

Multiplication Houses

Today in class we made a multiplication house for the zero facts. Students will bring this home in their agendas tonight. For homework, students need to build the zero facts house. They could use some adult help with this (if you have an exacto blade, it makes it easier to cut out the doors).

The steps to building the house are:
-cut out both patterns along the dashed gray lines,
-cut out the window and door openings along the dashed lines,
-add glue to the back of the front of the house around the window frames and doors,
-glue the two pieces of house together so the windows open onto the multiplication-sentence answers and the door opens onto the riddle answer.

Happy Birthday!!

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Math Update

We are continuing to look at division in math, but now we are talking about it using fractions. Some vocabulary that we should be familiar with are:

equal parts

fractions

halves

sixths

quarters/fourths

fifths

eighths

thirds

tenths

mixed number

Octi