Veterans Day is a big deal at our school, as it should be. Each year we invite Veterans from the community to join us for an assembly where we honor them in different way. This year, my students created a large mural and they presented information on the history of the Star Spangled Banner.
November is a time for Parent-Teacher conferences, which I must admit are not my favorite. I spend so much time trying to think of everything I need to say to a parent, organizing my ideas, gathering work samples and finding just the right way to phrase some of those difficult messages. And inevitably, the minute a parent leaves or an hour later it hits me… the one thing I forgot to tell them! Spring is another conference, but this time around students are leading the way. Over the next few weeks I will spend time reflecting with my students, sharing
Moving to third grade this year, I needed some different graphic organizers, and it was one of those projects I kept wanting to do, but never got around to… creating a new set of graphic organizers! Now that school is out, it was an easy summer project to get started with! I’m sure I will add more as time goes on, but it’s a good start! Click to view the file in my TpT store or in my Teachers Notebook store. So here it is, a compilation of 22 graphic organizers, covering story writing, research, comparisons, timelines, the 5 W’s
As part of our unit on mapping, the students had to work with a partner to create a map of the first floor of our school. They were given a rubric to help them with remembering all of the parts they needed to include on their map. Once the maps were complete, they had to write out a specific set of directions to tell someone how to get from one location on the map to another. We then collected and redistributed all of the maps and students got to follow their new directions using their new map. Once they arrived
We have been doing a mini unit to review maps and map skills. The students created their own poster to show where they are on a map, including themselves, their street, town, state, country, continent and planet. They also created a world map labeling the continents. We took each child’s picture with them pretending to hold up the world and added that to their posters. The final products turned out nicely, and were something the kids said they wanted their parents to look at during Back to School Night. I put the templates up as a freebie on TpT.