March 6, 2024 – Mr. Chad's class Blog

Week 21~23

There has been a lot of words introduced in these three weeks.

Experiment: To test something
Technology: Using knowledge about how things work to build something
Nutrients: A substance needed to live and grow
Generate: To make something such as heat or electricity
Thesis: The first sentence in an article. It states exactly what the article will be about and how the writer feels about the topic.
Concrete Noun: a noun that can be experienced with the five senses. (touch, taste, hear, smell, see)
Abstract Noun: a noun that cannot be experienced with the sense, often a thought or a feeling. (happiness, anger, belief, Holiday)
Inspire: To make Someone want to do something
Awkward: Making you feel embarrassed
Doubt: a feeling that you are not sure about something.
Practice: to do something repeatedly to become better at it.
Rehearse: to do something repeatedly to become better at it. (Performing, like music, or acting)
Train (verb): to do something repeatedly very hard, to become the best at it. (Usually Physical, like sports)
Study: to try and learn something by reading or writing.
Focus: to put a lot of energy on doing one thing.
Identify: to recognize something by its traits.
Dinner: The food you eat in the evening
Well: a big hole in the ground for finding water
Roar: an animal’s loud yelling
Reflection: to see a copy of something in a mirror-like surface.
Clouds: Water vapor in the sky.
Stronger: More strong than
Spiders: an 8 legged animal.
Webs: a trap made by spiders to capture food.
Theories: Guesses made to understand something. (Usually starts with “Maybe…”

Irregular Plural Nouns

Butterfly -> Butterflies
baby -> babies
bench -> benches
man -> men
goose -> geese
box -> boxes
wish -> wishes
wolf -> wolves
foot -> feet
tooth -> teeth
child -> children
moose -> moose
sheep -> sheep
mouse -> mice

Grade 3B has working hard at their Persuasive Writings. and I want to break the work up here a little bit for you.

In Lesson 1 – We looked at things around the school. We were looking for things that could be made better, and we made a list. Then we discussed it. Some of the things mentioned are listed below:

Better organization of the playgrounds. Specifically:
The ECC playground is next to the UES playground but is unavailable to the large children.
The Dinosaur area has a fun playground, but it is inaccessible to students normally.
The Leopard is not usable by UES students.
Cleanliness: There is still a problem with trash being littered on the ground.
Shade: there should be more shady areas for hot days near the playground.

In Lesson 2 – We took time to write about one of the issues above. 1 short paragraph was asked for.

In Lesson 3 – We looked at How can we add words and phrases to make our reader interested in our issue. We looked at making our Thesis Clear and to the point.

In lesson 4 – We discussed things we love int he world. Things that are awesome. We chose one of these to write about. Our focus: how can this thing make the world better?
Some children chose their parents, and were asking people to show the positive attributes their parents had.
Some children a video game, and were trying to convince people that proper use of that game could help children learn better.
Some people chose a country and listed out the positive things about that country, then focused on how the world could be better by copying these positives.

Lesson 5,6 and 7 were lessons about pacing and editing.
We decided to follow these basic steps:

Write. Don’t worry about spelling or grammar. (By yourself)
Read. Read the writing to yourself or to a friend. (by yourself or with 1 partner)
Fix. Fix on the paper any mistakes you and your friend found. (By yourself or with 1 partner)
Go back to Write & continue.