3FT Third Grade Thoughts: Bike Safety Week!

Throughout the week, the students took part in a number of activities to help them with their biking skills. They kids improved their balancing, turning and stopping. They also learned proper hand signals for a left turn, right turn and stopping. They finished the week with a "Bike Rodeo" so they could demonstrate the skills they had been working on. The following stations were set up in the arena and each student had the opportunity to participate...Figure Eight, Skinny Track, Slow Race, Paper Boy and Slalom.

In Language Arts this week, we started with Journal writing. The kids worked on a "Free Write" about any topic they wished to write about. Most of the students enjoy telling us about their weekend, some wrote about Spring sports and others are working on short stories.

We used a few minutes each day to review some writing skills that we have been reinforcing throughout the year such as, making complete sentences, using adjectives, having proper conventions and capitalization and changing words into plural form.

We read some stories as a class from our "Collections" series. The students have become more confident in reading aloud to the class and continue to work on their fluency and expression.

We also completed a Making Words activity. Students were given the following letters, u, s, n, w, o, f, r, e, l, and asked to make 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 letter words. They had five minutes to work on their own and then another five to work with a partner. We worked as a class to compile a final list of words. The mystery word was SUNFLOWER!

We also completed another handwriting letter - Bb.

In Math, we continued to work through our Measurement unit. The students worked on measuring using centimeters and meters. They also estimated the lengths of different objects.

They also learned about a kilometre and how it is 1000 metres.

The students have been working on brochures for the country of Ukraine. The brochure is divided into six different topics. Using their "jot" notes, they picked out a few key points for each topic and put them into sentences. Then they illustrated the pages in their brochure.

We will be starting our new science unit on Life Cycles next week. To kick off the unit, we had an exciting surprise show up at the end of the week. We will be watching the transformation of caterpillars into butterflies in our classroom!!