Mrs. Coleman's Grade 3's 2025-2026

  I look forward to meeting with you all at conferences tonight and tomorrow! Looking Back: Literacy: Phonics:  This week in phonics, we practiced changing the middle and ending sounds in words during our warm-ups to build flexibility when reading. In our lessons, we focused on vowel-consonant-e (VCE) words (such as make and ride ) and extended this learning by adding prefixes and suffixes (affixes) . This helped students break longer words into smaller, meaningful parts. As a result, students are improving their ability to decode unfamiliar words and are strengthening their spelling by understanding how words are built. Writing: Your child has a “secret picture” in their backpack! At conferences, you will receive a writing sample describing their Creep or Junkyard friend from Ollie’s Odyssey . At home, try drawing the character based on your child’s description, then compare it to their original picture. Students are very excited to see your drawings! This piece shows o...

  Looking Back: Literacy: Grammar:  This week, we learned about possessive nouns and how they show ownership. Students practiced deciding when to use ’s and when to use s’ . To make the learning active and fun, we played a Scoot game , where students moved around the room solving different possessive noun challenges. You can try a quick practice at home by asking your child questions such as: • How would you write the possessive form for “the bed belonging to the cat”? • How would you write the possessive form for “the art belonging to the students”? See if they can explain why they chose ’s or s’ Writing: We have finally finished our Creep/Junkyard Friend writing project ! The students are very excited to share their work with you. During conferences, they will read their descriptions and challenge you to draw their creep based only on their writing. It will be a fun way to see how clearly they described their creation! Reading: This week in our novel,  The Boy...