December 16-20

Math: Envision 6-6, study guide, performance task, test on Thursday

Social Studies: complete newspaper article, review for test, test on Wednesday

Science: continue analyzing data/converting to graphs, writing a conclusion

Reading: complete writing nonfiction article in computer lab, complete 2nd nonfiction assessment (all week)

Spelling: miss, idea, enough, eat, face, started, star, carpet, barber, party, pardon, lunar, cycle, appearance, octagon, classify; pretest on Tuesday, test on Thursday

December 9-13

Math: Multiplication: Envision Math 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, determine missing numbers in multiplication equations, Envision 5-6

Social Studies: Effects of the American Revolution 1-2 days: Branches of Government (2 days), Branches of Government culminating assessment (create 3 Branches of government tree)

Science: Science Fair Project: continue procedures, complete information sheet, how to display data, how to calculate average for data

Reading: Writing Nonfiction Article: writing introduction, begin inserting headings and titles into article template.

Spelling: hear, stop, without, second, late, loose, choose, shook, understood, balloon, looked, predictable, pattern, season, pentagon, hexagon Test on Friday

December 2-6

Math: review, test on Tuesday, Envision 5-1 (2 and 5 as factors), 5-3 (0 and 1 as factors), 5-5 (10 as a factor)

Social Studies: finish study guide, review, test on Wednesday, effects of Revolutionary War on SC (2 days)

Science: gathering materials for science fair project (2 days), creating procedures list (3 days)

Reading: research for animal nonfiction text (2 days), creating nonfiction text on animal of choice (3 days)

Spelling: four, carry, state, once, book, crawl, laundry, author, taught, pause, dawn, extinct, resemble, disappear, polygon, integer

Happy Thanksgiving from Mr. Johnson's Class

November 18-22

Math: Envision 4-2, arrays and multiplication, switching factors in multiplication, multiplication stories, review for test that's on Tuesday.

Social Studies: review causes of American Revolution, loyalists and patriots, British invades Charles Town, battles of the American Revolution

Science: review heat, heat test, creating a hypothesis for science fair project

Reading: Toppling Tower text, reading assessment (2 days), begin researching and notetaking

Spelling: sea, began, grow, took, river, crown, however, around, growl, fountain, sound, organism, beneficial, detrimental, multiplication, division

November 11-15

Math: interval on a bar graph, Envision 16-6, review for test, test on Thursday, Envision 4-1

SS: review for test, test on Tuesday, illustrate causes of American Revolution, loyalists and patriots

Science: practicing making a testable question, how heat is produced, insulators and conductors

Reading: "Rattlesnake Rustlers"-text features in a nonfiction text, begin research process

Spelling: car, mile, night, walk, white, choice, voice, royal, annoy, noise, destroy, forest, grassland, wetland, function, relationship

Here are some photos from Diamond Del in October:

November 4-8

Math: Envision lessons 16-3 (Reading Pictographs), 16-4 (Creating Pictographs), 16-5 (Bar Graphs and Tally Tables), MOOTB lesson 16, MOOTB lesson 17

Social Studies: 1st and 2nd Continental Congress notes, Declaration of Independence, study guide, test on Tuesday, November 12th

Science: introduce The Scientific Method, creating a testable question, science fair question due on Friday 

 
ELA: Digging Deeper through informational texts

Spelling: together, got, group, often, run, space, fence, price, office, police, pencil, adapt, survive, behavior, whole, part

October 28-November 1

Math: Lesson 3-10 and study guide (Mon.), review (Tues.), test (Wed.), performance task (Thurs.), graphs (Fri.)

Social Studies: slavery brochure (Mon. and Tues.), causes of American Revolution (Wed-Fri.)

Science: measuring mass (Mon.), changes in matter (Tues.), review/study guide (Wed.), test (Thurs.), dry ice lab (Friday)

ELA: finish Yonder Mountain story and questions (Mon-Wed), begin Chief Joseph text and questions (Thurs. and Fri.)

Spelling: important, until, children, side, feet, giraffe, huge, stage, engine, badge, ginger, ocean, desert, tundra, equation, operation; pretest Wednesday, test on Friday

This Week

math: Subtracting 2-digit numbers, subtracting 3 digit numbers, subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers in word problems

social studies: Atlantic Slave Trade, Gullah

science: Heat and Matter, observable and measurable properties, forms of matter, Diamond Del, measuring mass lab

ELA: Hopi Poem, Yonder Mountain texts

Animal Project Photos

Here's a look at this week's animal project: Create an Adaptimal- an animal that can adapt to any habitat in the world.

Week of October 14-18

For this week:

 

math: Adding 3 digit numbers

social studies: South Carolina articles; summarize, compare and contrast

science: working on "adaptimal" performance task

ELA: read Trail of Tears poem

 

Check out what we've been doing!

Today, we began our animal project. Students are researching habitats and an animal's physcial and behavioral adaptations to create the perfect "adaptimal".

 

 

Here is our coloring flower activity. Students were asked to predict what would happen if food coloring was placed in a cup of water that held a white carnation.

October 7-11

This week we will:

math: complete study guide (Monday), review (Tuesday), test on Wednesday, performance task (Thursday), addition problems using expanded algorithms (Friday)

social studies: European groups who settled in SC (Monday), finish study guide (Tuesday), review (Wednesday), test on Thursday)  

science: Five Great Lakes Species article (Monday and Tuesday), African Dogs assessment (Wednesday and Thursday), introduce performance task (Friday)

ELA: Encounter text (Monday-Wednesday), Encounter test (Thursday and Friday) 

spelling: along, might, close, something, seem, laugh, rough, enough, graph, sphere, photograph, particle, atom, element, property, decimal   pretest on Wednesday, test on Friday

September 30- October 4, 2013

This week we will learn:

Math: Estimating, Reasonable Estimations, Rounding Powerful Facts, Study Guide, test next week






Social Studies: Relationships between Native Americans and Early Explorers

Science: read the science articles, The Twisted Trees of Slope Point, Five Great Lakes Species

ELA: Read Encounter; test on Friday

Spelling: saw, left, don’t, few, while, known, write, knock, wrong, knot, wrinkle, solid, liquid, gas, product, quotient

Mr. Johnson's Class for the Week of September 23

This week, we will be learning about:

 

Math: Rounding, models for rounding, estimating

ELA: read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughter and Rough Faced Girl; comparing text

Spelling: light, thought, head, under, story, burst, strip, just, street, distance, least, evaporate, melt, object, sum, difference pretest on Wednesday, test on Friday

Social Studies: Explorers research project; test on Friday

Science: Food Chains, food chain project; Plants and Animals Culminating Assessment

The Week of September 16-20

This week we will:

Math:
Number Sense- Use mental math to add, solve bigger addition problems, regroup algorithms, use mental math to subtract

Social Studies:
Explorers- motivations for exploring, accomplishments of explorers, explorer research

Science:
Plants and Animals Adaptations-Watershed - "Water, Water Everywhere", Adaptations of Plants and Animals study guide, test on Thursday, Habitats

Reading:
TPQCUA

Important Info:

• When picking up students in the front office, please have your ID available.
• Open House is Monday night, September 16th.
• Interim Progress Reports go home Thursday, September 19th. Each subject will include about 3-4 grades which include 1-2 major grades and 1-2 minor grades.
• Fall Fundraiser is due Friday, September 20th.

The Week of September 9-13

This week, we will be learning:

Math- Number Sense: Addition and Subtraction

Reading- Sequence, understanding culture in a text

Social Studies- Native Americans: Compare Cherokee and Catawba, Yemassee characteristics, Native American artifacts, study guide, test on Friday, September 13th.

Science- Plant and Animal Habitats and Adaptations: Adaptations of Animals, Plants, study guide (Thursday), test Tuesday, September 17th.

Spelling- last, school, father, keep, tree, grade, reach, raise, theme, scream, easy, batteries, fuel, machine, sovle, evaluate, pretest on Wednesday, test on Friday

Tuesday, September 3

This week in Mr. Johnson's class, we will learn about:

Reading: Culture and Diversity
* Cinderella- sequence of events, compare and contrast, Irish Cinderella, Irish culture

Math: Numeration
* Problem Solving, making an organized list, study guide, review, test on Friday

Social Studies: Native Americans in South Carolina
* The Cherokee, the Catawba, similarities and differences

Science: Habitats and Adaptations of Plants and Animals
* life cycles of animals, behavioral and physical adaptations, blubber activity

Spelling: between, own, below, country, plant, slip, lunch, pond, from, thump, inch, convert, stored, motion, expanded, calculate, pictograph
*Practice on Tuesday, Pretest on Wednesday, Test on Friday
 Writing: Sentence fragments and complete sentences

Wednesday, August 28th

Homework

 

Reading: 100 BC 2 lines (goal of 40 by Friday)

Social Studies: study 5 difficult questions by asking a parent/guardian to anwer
 
**Parents, please initial the study guide saying your child asked you these questions

Tuesday, August 27th

Homework for Tuesday:

Reading: 100 BC 2 lines

Social Studies: study for test (test is Friday)
** we practiced today what it means to "study" (students ask parents/guardians questions-up to 5-from study guide)

Writing: Finish "My Summer Bug" writing

Monday, August 26

Here's what we will be learning this week in Mr. Johnson's class:

Math:
Place Value- understanding number lines, counting on the number line, comparing numbers, ordering numbers

Reading/Language Arts:
Reading- Chinese culture texts, character descriptions, how characters affect story events
Guided Reading- practicing literacy stations procedures, spelling contract
Writing- begin setting up Writer's Workshop notebooks, creating writing topics for the year

Social Studies:
Regions of South Carolina- descriptions of regions, river systems, major cities, study guide/review, test on Friday, August 20th
**study guide will be sent home on Tuesday in student's social studies folder but will be completed at school.

Science:
Introducing science topics for year and organizing science journals.
The first unit will begin next week: Plant and Animal Adaptations.

Guest Blogger B.A.

Everyday, each student "tweets" what he/she has learned on a "tweet sheet." This sheet is located outside Mr. Johnson's classroom in the hallway. This week, the students have been asked to write a short sentence eact day about something learned or found interesting and close it with a hashtag (#).

Here is student number 1, B.A.:

8-21-13 Zeros hold the place in a number such as 1,067 #math

Happy First Day of Third Grade!

Today in Mr. Johnson's class we:

1) unpacked and began organizing notebooks, binders, and desk materials
2) read First Day Jitters (but we ran out of time and did not get to taste Jitter Juice)
3) learned about Class Dojo and how to earn our 5 points for the day
4) learned hallway and bathroom procedures
5) had indoor recess and played 4 Corners
6) began designing our test cover sheet and decorated our name tag for our book basket
7) were given classroom jobs (sweepers, stampers, trash emptiers, etc.)

Tomorrow, we will have a guest blogger B.A. He will share what he tweeted about the first day of school.

Welcome to Mr. Johnson's Blog!

Hello parents and students!

I am excited to start another year in 3rd grade!

I want to tell you the purpose that my blog will serve this year. In the past, I have used it for:

*homework assignments
* photos and videos of students during the school day
* explanation of class assignments

However, this year I will allow my students to take a role in publishing on the blog. Everyday, I will allow one student to either write a description of what they learned or summarize a book he/she has read. The student may do this either by typing or videoing him/herself and posting to this site. Of course, I will assist in this process as well as making sure no personal information is shared. The student will just put his/her initials at the bottom of the blog.

I look forward to meeting all of you and having an amazing school year!