Halloween Poetry

Create the following poems in this order:

1. Diamante poem (use the Read Write Think template)

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/diamante_poems_2/

2. Acrostic poem (use the Read Write Think template or use PowerPoint if you want something colorful)

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/printouts/Acrostic%20Poem.pdf

3. Word Cloud using Tagxedo (choose a Halloween shape)

www.tagxedo.com

If you already created an Acrostic poem in class on Monday, you should create a Word Cloud.  If you already created the Word Cloud on Monday, you should create the Acrostic poem.

Halloween Door Decorating in Technology!

You have 3 different technology options to create something fun for the HTS Halloween Door Decorating Contest.  You must finish your project today so that we can print them and give them to Mrs. Khanijoun to be hung on your classroom door as soon as possible.  Examples of your choices are below:

Halloween acrostic poem in PowerPoint

Word Cloud With Tagxedo

click on:  www.tagxedo.com

Comic Life

Quotation Marks & Spelling City

Today, first you will play a game that will help you practice using quotation marks.  Click on the link below the picture to begin.

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/quotation_marks/quiz1632.html

Next, you will login to Spelling City and begin typing your weekly spelling words.  Once you have finished typing your words, click the green button "Play A Game".

 www.spellingcity.com

You must use the Teacher Login to create your own spelling list:

Username:  cmiller@htsdc.org

Passsword:  3310prospect

Continue Acrostic Poems

Today, I would like you to finish your acrostic poems about Christopher Columbus.  Please follow these steps to begin:

Login to your computer (last name, first initial and password is:  reader3)
Click the Start button
Computer
Double click on YOUR network drive
Double click on your acrostic poem (regan ap)
Insert
Text box

Create an Acrostic Poem with PowerPoint

Today, everyone will create an acrostic poem using the word COLUMBUS.  After you login, YOU MUST follow along with me on the Smartboard.  PLEASE LISTEN and follow my instructions to:
- Open Powerpoint
- Save your document in your own drive
- Change the slide layout
- Insert the text box
- Etc., etc.

Common Nouns & Proper Nouns - Columbus Day Theme

Today, everyone will login to their computer using their own username and password:

Username:  your last name followed by your first initial

Password:  reader3

Everyone will open their own network folder.  You will use this folder to save all of the work you do on the computer at HTS.

Open the document called "3rd grade nouns template".  This is a Comic Life document.  I will show you how to add text to this document.  Please brainstorm as many common nouns and proper nouns related to Columbus Day as you can.

3rd Grade Username and Password

Everyone will login using their own username and password today.

Username: lastname followed by first initial (ex. battiest)
Password:  Trinity123

EVERYONE WILL CHANGE THEIR PASSWORD TO:  reader3

Common Nouns & Proper Nouns

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index.html

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar1.htm

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions.cgi?Grade=2&Unit=3&Topic=Nouns+and+Pronouns

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=3&Unit=2&Topic=Nouns&x=13&y=5

http://www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm

http://www.quia.com/cb/28126.html

Finish Read This! Flyers & Raz-Kids

Today, everyone should finish their Read This! flyers.  If you have finished, please login to Raz-Kids and choose books at your level.  Please take the Quiz at the end of each book.  The 3rd Grade Teacher Username is:

hts3rd

http://www.raz-kids.com/main/Login