What Students Can Work on Over Christmas Break

Below you will find a combination of games, lessons, and practice students can work on while over break if they have some down time or they just need some extra practice.

Reading: 

On www.newsela.com, students can choose leveled articles on many different topics.

Directions:

Choose "Sign Up", "I'm a Student" then use the code GD22FW to join Mr. Johnson's class. Here's how it works:

Math:

On www.tenmarks.com, students logins are their first and last name (no spaces: eg. mattjohnson) and their passwords are their lunch numbers followed by 00 (eg: 1234500)

Students can watch lessons, complete activities and play games.  Here's a quick preview:

Science: 

On www.youtube.com/user/SteveSpanglerScience students can watch and learn how to do cool science tricks like this:

Social Studies:

On www.libertyskids.com/fungames.html students can watch videos, play games and much more on 3rd grade social studies topics. Here's one that's about our next social studies unit:

Exercise:

At www.gonoodle.com, students can do exercises such as Zumba kids and many more active dances and games. Just click Sign up and students can have hours of energy-releasing fun just like this class favorite:

Also, students may review lessons, projects, and other videos on www.classroom.google.com. They just need to enter their email address. 

Have a fun and safe break!

This Week in Mr. Johnson's Class:

Reading: Animal Research Project-graphic organizer, writing process, publishing, due Friday

Spelling: Words this week TBA: Test on Thursday

Social Studies: Begin Exploration of People Groups: English, Huguenots, European Jews, German Scotch-Irish (Study guides coming home)

Science: Animal Adaptations research, Animal Culminating Assessment Flipbook, "Adaptimal Project" see THIS VIDEO for an example

Math: 7-2 (Division as Repeated Subtraction), 7-3 (Finding Missing Numbers in Multiplication Table), 7-4 (Problem Solving: Choose an Appropriate Equation), 7-5 (Writing Division Stories)

Important Dates This Week:

Monday (art): Graded Papers go home

Tuesday (music): 

Wednesday (PE):

Thursday (computer lab): Polar Express Day/Pajama Day; club day (with Mrs. Hammett)

Friday (library-NO ACTIVITY TODAY): Christmas Party at 10:15 am; School dismisses at 11:00 am. 

Classroom Needs:

Kleenex tissues, dry erase markers (skinny), pencil top erasers, 

Thank you!

Math Lesson 7-1

Habitats Review

Topic 6 Review

December 7-11

This Week in Mr. Johnson's Class:

Reading: class spelling bee, nonfiction text features assessment Monday/Tuesday

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

Science: Food Chains, Review, Test on Wednesday

Social Studies: Begin Social Classes

Math: Review Topic 6, Test on Tuesday/Wednesday,  (Begin Topic 7), 7-1, 7-2

Important Dates This Week:

Monday (art): class spelling bee

Tuesday (music): 

Wednesday (PE): 

Thursday (computer lab): Chick-fil-a Spirit Night

Friday (computer lab): Club Day with Mrs. Hammett, graded papers go home (students may make corrections)

November 30-December 4

This Week in Mr. Johnson's Class:

Reading: Nonfiction text features ( Beelzebufo, Rattlesnake Rustlers, and Toppling Tower)

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

Science: Animal Adaptations

Math: Topic 6-5, review, begin Kiwanis Club Multiplication Challenge

Important Dates This Week:

Monday (art):

Tuesday (music):

Wednesday (PE):

Thursday (computer lab):

Friday (library): Midterm Progress Reports Due and Graded Papers (corrections made)

Classroom Needs:

Kleenex, dry erase markers (skinny), pencil top erasers

Thank you!

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6-1

November 16-20

This Week We Will Learn:

Reading: Voices in the Park-learning point of view

Spelling: sea, began, grow, took, river, crown, however, around, growl, fountain, sound, organism, beneficial, detrimental, multiplication, division (Test on Wednesday)

Science: Plant Life Cycle, adaptations

Math: Finish math test, begin Topic 6 (Multiplication Facts: Using Known Facts)


Important Dates This Week:

Monday (art): 
Tuesday (music): 

Wednesday (PE):

Thursday (computer lab): Mrs. Kimbrell at Barnes and Noble (dress as Pete the Cat)

Friday (library): Career Fair at school, Club Day

Voices in the Park- Our Class Book of the Month

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5-5

November 9-13

**Please note that Mr. Johnson will be at a technology conference Thursday and Friday of this week and will not be at school. Please send a note or call the office for any emergencies.

This Week We Will Learn:

Reading: Voice in the Park-learning point of view

Spelling: car, mile, night, walk, white, choice, voice, royal, annoy, noise, destroy, forests, grassland, wetland, function, relationship (Test on Wednesday)

Science: Plant Life Cycle, adaptations

Math: Multiplication lesson 5-5 and 5-6, review and test on Friday


Important Dates This Week:

Monday (art):

Tuesday (music):

Wednesday (PE):

Thursday (computer lab):

Friday (computer lab):

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5-2

5-1

4-4

November 2-6

What We Are Learning This Week:

Reading: Encounter review and test on Wednesday

Spelling: important, until, children, side, feet, giraffe, huge, stage, engine, badge, ginger, ocean, desert, tundra, equation, operation TEST ON THURSDAY

Social Studies: Explorers review and test (Wednesday or Thursday)

Math: 4-4 and 4-5, multiplication practice test on Thursday

Important Dates: 

2nd-Monday (art):

3rd-Tuesday (NO SCHOOL): Election Day: Go Vote!

4th-Wednesday (PE):

5th-Thursday (Computer Lab): Chick-fil-a Spirit Night (4:30-8pm)

6th-Friday (Library):

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October 26-30

This Week We Are Learning: 

Reading: We are reading the story, Encounter: the story of Christopher Columbus told from the Taino's perspective.

Spelling: together, got, group, often, run, space, fence, price, office, police, pencil, adapt, survive, behavior, whole, part;  spelling test on Thursday

Social Studies: Explorers

Science: Plant Habitats and Adaptations

Math: Topic 16: Data (line plots, pictographs, bar graphs)

Important Dates:

Monday (art): wear black and white

Tuesday (music): wear overalls

Wednesday (PE): wear a vest; Bojangles biscuits on sale to support the K-9's

Thursday (computer lab): Farmer's Day

Friday (computer lab, maybe library too): Spirit Day

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Topic 4 Review

Today, you will be reviewing the lessons 1-3 of Topic 4 and taking a quiz in the teacher session. If you do not finish the quiz, take it to your desk and finish during game station and turn in when complete.

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4-2

4-1

October 19-22

** Mr. Johnson will not be at school this week. If you have any immediate concerns, please send a note to the teacher or contact the school office. 

Math: Begin Multiplication, quiz on topics 4-1, 4-2, and 4-3 on Thursday.

Reading: Reading stations, spelling practice, reading responses on Kidblog.org

Spelling: No spelling test this week; test will be on Monday, October 26th.

Social Studies: Explorers in South Carolina- William Hilton, Jean Ribbault, Juan Pardo, and Henry Woodward.

Important Dates This Week

Monday (art):

Tuesday (music): Book Fair Family Night (3:30-6:00pm)

Wednesday (PE): Mr. Johnson's class to the book fair (10:05-10:45am)

Thursday (computer lab): Fall Carnival 4-7pm

Friday: No School- Staff Development Day

Topic 3 Review

Week of October 12-16

This Week in Mr. Johnson's Class:

Reading: Continue Walk Two Moons, compare and contract characters, effects of setting on plot
Spelling: next, hard, open, example, begin, chance, match, watch, batch, chew, speech, source, direction, travel, model, demonstrate Test on Thursday

Science: Continue Plant Habitats and Adaptations

Social Studies: Continue Explorers

Math: Finish Topic 3- Addition and Subtraction; test on Friday

Important Dates This Week:

Monday (art): Field Trip to Walnut Grove (return to school at 1:00pm); Parent-Teacher Conferences: 3:00-6:30pm

Tuesday (music):

Wednesday (PE):

Thursday (computer lab): Field Trip- A Day with the Cherokee (return to school at 1:30pm); Parent-Teacher Conferences: 3:00-6:30pm

Friday (computer lab): Spirit Day

*Parent-Teacher conferences this week are scheduled to meet about 15 minutes. I will not be giving out report cards due to my conferences taking place a week early. These will come home in an envelope next week. You may keep the report card but please sign and return the envelope.

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3-6

October 5th-9th

This week in Mr. Johnson's class:

Reading: Continue reading Walk Two Moons- discuss setting, characterization.

Spelling: along, might, close, something, seem, laugh, rough, enough, graph, sphere, photograph, particle, atom, element, property, decimal Test on Thursday

*Students who earned 100+ Class Dojo points last week have a spelling pass for this week. 

Science: Begin Plant and Animal Adaptations

Social Studies: Begin Explorers

Math: Continue Topic 3-Addition and Subtraction strategies

Dates This Week:

Monday (art):

Tuesday (music): Field Trip money to "A Day with the Cherokee" is due $6

Wednesday (PE): Walk At School Day

Thursday (computer lab): Chick-fil-a Spirit Night

Friday (library): Parent-Teacher conference letters due back to Mr. J

**Students are completing Reading Responses at school. Students have the opportunity to read a book and post a response to the book on Kidblog.org both in the mornings, during guided reading stations, and at home, if needed. This Blog post explains how students can earn 5 points for a response. Students are expected to earn 10 points per week for a 100 test grade for reading.

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3-4

3-2

September 28-October 2

This Week in Mr. Johnson's Class:

Reading: Finish publishing folktales, begin Walk Two Moons

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

Science: Science culminating assessment on sound

Social Studies: culminating assessment for Native Americans in SC

Math: Begin Topic 3 (Using Place Value to Add and Subtract)

Dates This Week:

(28th) Monday-

(29th) Tuesday-

(30th) Wednesday- spelling pretest, begin collecting forms and money for Cherokee field trip

(1st) Thursday- spelling test

(2nd) Friday- Mr. Johnson not at school, signed papers go home

**Our field trip to Walnut Grove Plantation will be rescheduled soon. We are looking at a Monday in October. We will send home information as soon as we have it.

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2-9

September 21-25

What Are We Learning This Week?

Reading: Folktales, write a folktale.

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

Science: Finish sound, review, test on Wednesday.

Social Studies: characteristics of Native American tribes in South Carolina, test on Thursday.

Math: Addition and Subtraction strategies; lesson 2-8 and 2-9, review, test on Friday.


Dates for this week: 

Monday (art): Open House 6:00-7:00pm

Tuesday (music): Field trip permission slip and money for Walnut Grove due

Wednesday (PE):

Thursday (guidance):

Friday (library): Mr. Johnson's class to Walnut Grove

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2-7

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September 14-18

What Are We Learning This Week?

Reading: Folktales, write a folktale.

Spelling: never, start, city, earth, eyes, stone, follow, broke, flight, show, whole, waves, current, electric, digit, round; test on Thursday

Science: Begin properties of sound

Social Studies: characteristics of Native American tribes in South Carolina

Math: Addition and Subtraction strategies; lesson 2-4 through 2-8.


Dates for this week: 

Monday (art):

Tuesday (music):

Wednesday (PE): Begin collecting money for field trip to Walnut Grove (through Wednesday 9/23)

Thursday (guidance): midterm progress reports and graded papers go home (parents sign and return by 9/21)

Friday (computer lab):

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2-3

Lesson 2-2

September 8-11

This week in Mr. Johnson's Class:


Reading: sequencing events, test on Thursday


Science: Finish speed, test on Friday


Social Studies: Native American tribes in SC


Math: Begin Topic 2: Addition and Subtraction


Spelling: last, school, father, keep, tree, grade, reach, raise, theme, scream, easy, batteries, fuel, machine, solve, evaluate test on Friday

Lesson 2-1

Reading Response Directions

Review Topic 1: Numeration

Lesson 1-8

1-7

Week 3, August 31-Sept. 4

Here is what we will be learning this week:

Reading: Fairytales- The Egyptian Cinderella, The Lazy Townshend, The Princess and the Pea

Science: Speed, force and motion

Social Studies: major cities and rivers in South Carolina, review and test

Spelling: between, own, below, country, plant, slip, lunch pond, from, thump, inch, convert, stored, motion, expanded, calculate

Math: comparing numbers, ordering numbers, review, test

Dates for the Week:

Monday (art): 

Tuesday (music):

Wednesday (PE): 

Thursday (computer lab): spelling test, social studies test; iPad parent night 6:00-7:00

Friday (computer lab-typing): math test, Spirit Day (wear BSE colors)

Week 2 Highlights

This week, we took our beginning of the year MAP tests, practiced fire and intruder drills, practiced math and reading stations procedures, measured distance of objects in science, began writing reading responses, and completed our class set of Hokki stools with the addition of 3 lime green stools.

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1-5

Lesson 1-4

Math Lesson 1-3

Week 2 August 24-28

Here's what we're learning this week:

Reading: Read the story Chrysanthemum, create name posters

Writing: complete Summer Bug stories, publish on Kidblog

Spelling: high, every, near, add, food, best, next, else, checked, grand, stand, energy, matter, forms, value, notation

Science: motion, speed, direction

Social Studies: regions of SC and their features

Math: place value up to hundred thousands, read and compare numbers on a number line

Dates for This Week

Monday (art): 

Tuesday (music): MAP testing-reading (9:35)

Wednesday (PE): Fall Pictures (students may bring a change of clothes since we have PE; wear PE clothes to school and may change afterward)

Thursday (computer lab): Spelling Test, Chick-fil-a Spirit Night 4:30-8:00

Friday (library): MAP testing-math (8:00), PTA Volunteer Breakfast (9:00), Spirit Day-wear BSE colors or t-shirts

First Week of School Highlights!

 Wednesday, we used foam blocks to to build towers to demonstrate position and use words to describe where objects were located.

First day of school began with DRY ICE! Students participated in using their senses (except taste, of course) to learn and be hooked into 3rd grade!

What happens when we breathe on dry ice

What does dry ice feel like? Obviously, it's very cold!

What does dry ice sound like? Students touch the tip of their pencils for a high-pitched squealing sound!

Dry ice in a graduated cylinder with dish soap gives us dry ice bubbles!

Students practiced next week's spelling words by doing exercises and other writing examples.

 Show and tell on Puppy Pal days are when students can bring in toys and other objects to tell their story!

Here's our MADE IT THROUGH THE FIRST WEEK group selfie!

Math Lesson 1-2: Ways to Name Numbers

Math Lesson 1-1: Representing Numbers

First Week of School!

This week in Mr. Johnson's Class we will...

Monday: Have a fun-filled first day with plenty of surprises! Check out the video below! (Art)

Tuesday: Continue the fun along with previews of the year to come (begin Class Dojo, Edmodo, Kidblog and our first flipped lesson) (Music)

Wednesday: Have our first math lesson, 1-1 (Place Value), use Kidblog to write about ourselves, learn about position of objects in science, explore landforms in SC-social studies, respond to what we read (PE)

Thursday: Continue learning place value, writing in Kidblog, position, landforms and regions in SC, respond to what we read (Computer Lab)

Friday: Continue learning place value, writing in Kidblog, position, landforms and regions in SC, respond to what we read (Library)

Check back here on Friday for photos and videos of our week.

Welcome to 3rd Grade in Mr. Johnson's Class!

Hello Parents! It was very nice meeting most of you yesterday at Meet the Teacher. Here are the main points we discussed in case you forgot or I forgot to tell you something:



1) Please join our class text through Remind: text the code @59d6b1 to the number 81010. It will say you are now a part of my class and if you have never used this before it will ask you to reply with your name.



2) I will use the Remind texts on Sundays and Fridays to refer you to my class blog: www.mr-johnsonsblog.blogspot.com for what we will be doing this week and for highlights from the past week.



3) I gave you and your child’s code for Class Dojo which is our classroom management system we will be using. Go to www.classdojo.com and select either parent or student to put in the code that will connect you to our class.



4) I have set up a class Facebook page that will also be used to highlight what’s going on in our class. You can find it by going to www.facebook.com/mrsciencedudemj and “Like” the page to receive notifications of updates.



5) Another way to stay in contact with me is my cell number. I don’t mind you calling or texting for important questions or information. My number is 864-384-3073. Do not feel like you are bothering me if you call/text after school hours. You may also send me a message if your child is sick and will not make it to school.



Also, many of you asked how you can help this year. If you are interested in helping the class in any way, click the link below and type your name under the description. Such needs include Room Parent, Room Parent Helpers, Class Photographer, and Teacher Assistant.



https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DrMn6xfFMUZBGkVoTHy1Fg7P8Z1wTbLWhcP1fKcZAZk/edit?usp=sharing



Click the link below for my letter regarding classroom policies:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y1OER7GtSB0xifDxrvh2evSMNrP04-KtN6oJpj-5qj8/edit?usp=sharing


Below is the link to the digital lunch menu for this year. We will not be sending home a paper menu this year.
http://spartanburg2.nutrislice.com/menu/boiling-springs/lunch/



I look forward to working with you to make this the best school year ever for your child!

Homework Survey

Schools and what makes a school a school has changed since I was "book-bagging it" up and down the halls of my elementary school. Homework has always held a bad taste in the mouths of students and teachers are starting to do something about it. However, parents still hold to the belief that "practice makes perfect", therefore, homework is a necessity for learning. What are your thoughts as we enter this school year? Create your own user feedback survey

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Math Blendspace

Topic 14: Area

Math Lesson 13-1 and 13-2

Lesson 13-1 and 13-2

Three Types of Rocks Edpuzzle Link

Igneous Rocks

Sedimentary Rocks

Metamorphic Rocks

Math Topic 11 Blendspace Link

Math Topic 11

Topic 10 Blendspace Link

Topic 10 Fractions

Ice Day Activities

Watch this video and think about what we have learned in science about plant and animal adaptations and the habitats they live in and food chains. Write your thoughts in the comments section below. 

Fractions 9-7

Fractions 9-7 Educreations

Fractions 9-8

Fractions 9-6

Homework for Monday:

Fractions 9-5

Thursday Night's Homework:

Fractions 9-4

Wednesday Night's Homework:

Fractions 9-3

Tuesday Night's Homework:

Fractions 9-2

Monday Night's Homework:



** If the video below does not play, have the students go to www.pearsonsuccessnet.com to watch lesson 9-2. Hopefully the video will be available soon.



Fractions Lesson 9-1

Homework for Monday:

Plant Adaptations Video