Third Grade: Day 86

What a gorgeous day we had. Blue skies. Warmer temperatures. I think our final temperature for the day was 62 degrees. Nice! for January.

In the classroom, Isabel worked hard this morning and had most of her work completed by lunch. So proud of her hard work! We were able to get outside before the sun set behind the tree line buffer.

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This week’s Bible verse is…

“In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” – John 1:4

We are continuing to add on to the verses that we have been learning for the past 3 weeks…

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things are made, without him nothing
was made that has been made.”
– John 1:1-3

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Our Native American prayer focus is the Potawatomi tribe of the Upper Mississippi River and the Great Lakes areas.

The dictation passage for this week are 2 quotes from George Washington…

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” – George Washington

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From our dictation passage quotes, she had to find the adjectives, which lead us to the study of comparative and superlative adjectives.

Comparative adjectives: are adjectives we use to compare two nouns and they can be easily recognized because they end in “-er“.

examples: taller, wider, higher, deeper and longer

for words with more than 2 syllables long:  more interesting, more difficult, more noticeable and more beautiful

Superlative adjectives: are comparing three or more nouns and most end in “-est” or are paired with the words most or least

examples: fastest, wisest, easiest and freshest

most improved, more noticeable, more perfect, most nervous

Irregular adjectives: those words that are not based on a single root word.

examples:

many – more – most
good – better – best
bad – worse – worst
far -father – farthest
much – more – most

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Some of our examples from today.

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Today we started 2 new books.

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“Listening to Crickets” by C.F. Ransom

This book is about Rachel Carson, the women who started the environmental movement and is a part of our science lessons. Being good stewards to the world that was given us means we need to take care of what He provided for us.

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“The Cabin Faced West” by J. Fritz

In math we did a whole lesson on Roman Numerals. The most common numerals are…

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Isabel learned these so quickly! I was impressed by how well she did.

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Later this afternoon, we went on a nature walk to make a photo journal for a science project. We walked around the neighborhood and Isabel took photos that caught her eye. See below…