Martin Luther King Jr.

Last week we started our unit on Martin Luther King Jr..  We read several non fiction books and had some really great discussions.  I decided that instead of a pattern or just another color sheet that I would show my class, step-by-step, how to draw a portrait.  So I demonstrated on my elmo as they followed my directions at their desks.  The outcome was awesome!  Just look at all the cute MLK's in our hallway.  Then I had write three facts about Dr. King and write them on their graphic organizers.  They didn't have a problem coming up with three, they wanted to write more facts!  I think I'll have to make a new organizer with room for more facts for our next study.

January

 

Check out our Snowman Glyphs!  I wrote it on chart paper.  They didn't have any patterns, but they did awesome!  Maybe it's because we have made a glyph every month....hmmm...probably!  I love the personality of each one.  Third graders Rock!!!

This is the our classroom door that my student teacher made this year.

My December bulletin board, we used "The Grinch" to teach both reading and English skills.  We ended the unit with a writing assignment "I Would make the Grinch grin by..." Didn't they turn out cute?

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We read "Legend of the Poinsettia" by Tomie DePaola and finished our unit by painting these beautiful poinsettias.  I cut a petal shapes from sponges bought at the Dollar Tree.  Attached a clothes pin to the top and had my students stamp the petals in either red or pink and even mix the two.  The white spots left showing made them even better.  We finished them by tracing the flower with glue (3 dots in the center too!) and then added the gold glitter.  I think the glitter really makes them pop!  Didn't they do a great job on these?

These cute little elves are actually glyphs.  I made a pattern for the head, body, shoes, mittens, hat and the collar.  My class actually traced them and cut out the color according to their likes and dislikes.  I'm really into glyphs this year!