Dear Parents,

Thank you for coming out and supporting our Living Wax Museum Night!  I really appreciate your time and support! Words cannot express how proud I was of all of our amazing students last night.  Every one of them was fantastic and have accomplished so much during the course of this two-month project. To learn about our upcoming “City Project”, please see the attached parent letter.  It contains information about the project, a timeline of due dates, and the grading rubrics.

Thank you to all of our parent chaperones who joined us on our Heard trip!  You made this trip so enjoyable and so much fun.  Please email me any field trip photos so that we can use them in our End of the Year slideshow.

Next week, students will begin their informational texts unit.  We will be focusing on “Dear Benjamin Banneker” by Andrea Davis Pinkney.  Our reading skill will be identifying the main idea within an informational test.  Students will also focus on different text features that are used in nonfiction texts. Students will have a quiz over nonfiction text features on November 30, 2017. A study sheet will go home before Thanksgiving break and there are study links below.

In writing, we continue to discuss simple and compound sentences. Please look at the link below to help students get a head start on this skills. There will be a graded assignment on these skills on November 16, 2017.  I strongly suggest practicing the Education Galaxy link below.

For homework, we have a “Marvelous Memories” Assignment for Grandparents’ Day.  We are asking students to interview a grandparent and a “grandfriend”.  The interview questions are attached.  “Marvelous Memories” will be due Thursday, November 16 in preparation for Grandparents’ Day.    Between our field trip and the Veteran’s Day Ceremony, this assignment did not make its way home in hardcopy form.  A hardcopy will be sent home on Monday. We do apologize for any inconvenience.

We will also have our 100 minutes of at home reading assignment due on Monday, November 20.  I attached the spelling list.  We took a week off of spelling due to the Living Wax Night and Heard Field Trip so the list is the same one that was sent last week. The spelling homework and the quiz will be due on Friday, November 17. Spelling City Certificates can also be submitted by email to my email address.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Have a great weekend!

Rachel Fendley

3rd Grade ELAR Teacher

Kimberlin Academy

RMLittre@garlandisd.net

Reminders:

November 11- PTA Carnival at Kimberlin!

November 14- College Shirt Day

November 17- Grandparents’ Day 8:10-10

November 20-24- Thanksgiving Break

 Online Resources for Skills Practice:

• Grammar:  Education Galaxy “Study Plan- writing” Topic – Simple and Compound Sentences
• 15 different game options from Sqworl: https://sqworl.com/w3kmal
• Sentence Power: http://harcourtschool.com/activity/sentence_power/index.html
• Simple & Compound Sentences - Rags to Riches: https://www.quia.com/rr/483587.html
• Match the Phrases: https://www.turtlediary.com/game/match-the-phrases-simple-compund-and-complex-sentences.html
• Blake’s Jeopardy Game: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/blakes-simple-and-compound-sentences-game
• Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-sentences-and-clauses/types-of-sentences/e/simple-and-compound-sentences
• Study ladder: https://www.studyladder.com/games/activity/compound-sentences-22744

• Reading: Main Idea
• Main Idea Millionaire: http://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/MainIdeaMillionaire/play.html
• Main Idea Lightning Strike: http://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/MainIdea/play.html
• Main Idea Hamburger game: http://www.pspb.org/blueribbon/games/burger/burger.html
• Reading: Nonfiction Text Features
• Education Galaxy “Study Plan- Reading” Topics – Context Clues, Dictionaries & Glossaries, or any topic under “Informational Text”
• Identify the Text Features: https://www.education.com/game/text-features/
• Nonfiction Memory Match: https://matchthememory.com/goldmine
• Nonfiction Text Jeopardy Game—Multiplayer! : https://www.superteachertools.us/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=248633#.WfPYbWhSyUk

Online Resources for Skills Practice on the Upcoming Unit 3:

• Grammar:  Education Galaxy “Study Plan- writing” Topic – Verbs
• Reading: Cause and Effect:
• Ice Cream Scoop: http://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/CauseEffect/play.html

Back to School, Mallory!

Mallory Changes!

Our students loved getting to read the novel, "Back to School, Mallory" by Laurie B. Friedman.  While reading the novel, we focused on character traits, feelings, and the changes that characters undergo throughout the story. 

Students worked in cooperative groups to create a prewriting foldable. The foldable compared and contrasted the character traits and emotions that could be found at the beginning of the book and the character traits and emotions from the end of the book.  Students also had to provide events from the novel to use as text evidence. 

 

Students were able to use their prewriting foldable on their written responses where they told me about how Mallory changes over the course of the novel.  

This novel is one from the "Mallory" series.  There are many other "Mallory" books to enjoy that would be great for our RR goals!  

Prefix Power!

Next week we will be working on common prefixes.  Students can get ahead of the game by enjoying these optional online resources! 

Online Resources for Skills Practice:

•    Education Galaxy “Study Plan- Reading” Topics

o    Common Prefixes

o    Antonyms & Synonyms

•    Education Galaxy “Study Plan- Writing” Topics

o    Subject Predicate

•    18 different Interactive Prefix Practice Games:

https://sites.google.com/site/easygrammar4kids/prefixes-and-suffixes 

•    Prefix Millionaire: https://www.quia.com/rr/37717.html 

•    Prefix Laser Game: https://www.turtlediary.com/game/prefix.html 

•    Prefix Practice Quiz:       http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/prefix/quiz304.html 

•    Interactive Prefix and Suffix game:

http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames/prefixsuffix.html

Focused Poetry

Our students loved the opportunity to respond to the poem "Mother Doesn't Want a Dog" by Judith Viorst.  

Optional Online Skills Practice

Online Resources for This Week's Skills Practice:

·         Education Galaxy “Study Plan- Reading” Topics  https://app.educationgalaxy.com/login.aspx

o   Characters

o   Sequence and Summary

·         Education Galaxy “Study Plan- Writing” Topics

o   Subject Predicate

o   Capitalization

·         BrainPOP- Subject and Predicate -See Snapshot for username and password

o   https://www.brainpop.com/english/grammar/subjectandpredicate/

·         Summary Practice: https://www.quia.com/rr/86000.html 

·         Schoolhouse Rock Subjects and Predicates Clip:  http://safeYouTube.net/w/P0Kb

·         Have Fun Teaching Song: http://safeYouTube.net/w/V0Kb

·         Subject Speedway Online Game: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/subject_speedway/index.html

·         The Predicate Coaster Online Game: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/predicate_coaster2/index.html

·         Review Game: https://reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=4257

·         Subject and Predicate Practice Quiz: https://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html

·         Find the Predicate Practice Quiz: http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/predicate/quiz245.html

Meet the Teacher!

Dear Parents,

Thank you so much for coming to Meet the Teacher and spending your night with us!  We appreciate being able to build a home-school connection with you. We are looking forward to working with you as we support each other in our efforts to help your student be successful and reach their full potential.   

Here is a link to the Meet the Teacher presentation that we went over last night. Please let me know if you have any questions.  

Link:  http://bit.ly/2h6FPmf  

The "Rabbit Rule" !

Spelling help for week 2!

We will be going over our spelling list and will have several activities planned to help students with this week’s spelling pattern.  This double consonant pattern can be a tricky one!  Here are a few resources to help you support your student’s mastery of this tricky pattern.

This week the spelling generalization is the “Rabbit Rule”!

I always tell students that this is more of a “generalization” than a rule.  There will always be those pesky “rule breakers” or expectations. This is a generalization that can be applied to most words but not all words. The “Rabbit Rule” is a spelling rule that explains why we double the consonant in words like “rabbit” or “kitten”.  This helps generalization can be seen in the double consonant in many common words, such as supper, muffin, letter, tennis, rubber, carrot, ladder, better, and traffic.

The Rabbit Generalization says, that the middle consonant is usually doubled in words that meet these three standards:

• ·         Does the word have two syllables?
• ·         Is the first vowel saying its short vowel sound?
• ·         Is there one consonant sound between the two vowels?

Quizlet practice game: https://quizlet.com/_3oha1d

Spelling City Link: https://www.spellingcity.com/RMLittre/

Instruction Video from “Multisensory Monday”: http://safeYouTube.net/w/UzKb

We are pro's now at pronouns!

The votes are in! The “hit” song of the week was “Pronouns- Thrift Shop Parody”!  You can enjoy this class favorite by clicking the link below!

http://safeyoutube.net/w/L9Gb

To be a " pro" at your pronouns enjoy these online games: 

    

•  https://www.brainpop.com/games/sortifypartsofspeech/    

Parents, see your "snapshot" email for the login information.   :) 

•  http://interactivesites.weebly.com/parts-of-speech.html
• http://www.abcya.com/parts_of_speech.htm
•  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammargames/pandapopPartsofSpeech.htm
• http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary-games/parts-of-speech/pronoun-proper-singular-plural.html
• http://www.arcademics.com/games/invasion/invasion.html

P.S. - Want to be a "pro" with your week 1 spelling words? Visit,  https://www.spellingcity.com/RMLittre/  

"Our Teacher's Not a Zombie"

Our poem of the week was “Our Teacher’s Not a Zombie” by Kenn Nesbit.  Our students loved it and created amazing artistic representations using the poem’s sensory language! I cannot wait to see what they come up with next week! 

New Year, New Blog!

Starting a blog has been an item on my professional goals list for some time now!  I am so excited that my wonderful team member, Ms. Molix, has given me the push that I needed to finally start one.  

I am starting this classroom blog to showcase all of the amazing things your students accomplish while at school and to help stay connected with all of my wonderful families. I will try to post at least twice a month.  I will link homework assignments, project documents or resources, helpful online learning games, and activities to enrichment your student's learning.  

Welcome to Mrs. Fendley's Outstanding, Wonderful Learners!