This year students will be taking the PARCC assessment test. Today's activity will walk you through a sample test to see how the different tools work.

Today we will practice editing and formatting features of Google Docs. Click on this link to access the practice document you will be working with.

Follow the directions in the comments to make the editing and formatting changes.

Homerow Typing Practice

Students in 3rd grade are introduced to touch typing using Type to Learn 4. The concepts of homerow, proper hand position and proper posture are introduced and reinforced through lessons and games. Students can download the software for home using the link below and their progess is synched between home and school. Students will need to ask their teacher for the school account code in order to use it at school.

Download TTL4

Students will use Kidspiration to brainstorm characteristics or properties of Solids, Gasses, and Liquids and provide examples of each.

Use this link to download the template file.

Grade 3 students are preparing for their wax museum by creating posters to help prompt visitors to ask questions while they take on the persona of a Revolutionary War historical person.

They will also use Wordle to make a word cloud with terms and words related to their historical figure. 

Students in Grade 3 have worked very hard on writing original poems. Once their work was ready for publishing, they used the iPads to read aloud their poems and record themselves with Garage Band. From there, they used the iPads to take a picture of their poems and put it all together in iMovie. Below is a sample.

In preparation for the PARCC tests, some students in Grade 3 will be doing the online PARCC practice test for mathematics.