3rdT2

Back to 3rd Grade =**THEME 2: Celebrating Traditions**= ===Reading-Writing Workshop: [|Instructions]=== [|Tips for Getting Started] [|Tips for Organizing and Planning] [|Tips for Sequencing] [|Tips for Being Complete] [|Student Self-Check] Resources to support thematic research during UA time: [|Stitch a Quilt], [|American Junior Rodeo Association], [|Little Britches Rodeo]

LAUNCHING THE THEME-Ongoing Project:
(taken from [|CTAP3.org]) Challenge students can research toys from other cultures or eras using the [|Toys and Games] site. (TE page 157). Videotape students in mock phone conversations (TE page 185O-P; Take a Telephone Message). All students have the opportunity to assess their own performance when viewing the video played back in class. Posters advertising the rodeo that has come to town can be created using a word processing program (Word, AppleWorks, etc.) or graphic design program, such as KidPix. (Classroom Management 2-7 #5)

[|Reading Comp.]

SELECTION 1: The Keeping Quilt SELECTION 2: Anthony Reynoso SELECTION 3: The Talking Cloth SELECTION 4: Dancing Rainbows Focus on Trickster Tales

Online Games
[|Sequencing Sentences]