Third Grade: Day 12

Today is Tuesday and it’s piano with Ms. G. Isabel is working hard on learning new songs, half notes and dynamics of the music. Her new songs she will be learning are “Jazz Pizzazz” by N.F. and “Hamster Chase” by M.M.

This morning we worked hard on getting as much as we could get completed before piano lessons. We started with Bible with both Isabel and I reading from our passages. Isabel read in Genesis, while I continued reading in Luke. We also finished reading, “Pedro’s Journal“. Isabel was very disappointed that we have finished our first book! She won’t be disappointed for long… we start a new book tomorrow!

After getting back home from piano lessons and eating lunch, we started with our spelling test and moved onto our memorization of a Psalm 8. We did a lesson on poetry and nursery rhythms, we both loved reading the poems, some of which we hadn’t heard before. Isabel’s favorite was “Old Mother Hubbard” by S.C.M.

In Language Arts we have been working on verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs (what we went over today).

She was given this passage:

“She took a step after him, but Cook’s voice called her back. “A-man-da.” She closed the door. She walked down the long, cold hall and into the kitchen.”

She needed to find the verbs and then add some descriptive adverbs to make it more interesting.

This is what she wrote (with a few adjectives as well):

“She took a small step after him, but Cook’s loud voice called her back. “A-man-da.” She silently closed the heavy door. She slowly walked down the long, cold hall and into the barren kitchen.”

I love her sentences! We went over this lesson until I felt she was getting adverbs and what they can do to a sentence.

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Later in the afternoon we read Walk the Worlds Rim” and “A Lion to Guard Us“. We were also able to chart both books courses on our map. Isabel loves charting on the map and I really like that she is learning about the world.

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On the sofa reading aloud.

She also spent about an hour on the computer doing math and Language Arts.

It was a good day, look forward to tomorrow and what it brings.

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