What did we do in 3rd grade?

You are all doing very nicely with the adverbs. It is a difficult part of speech, and I am very happy that you are catching on so quickly. We just learned about comparative adverbs and in the coming week we will learn about superlative adverbs. Yes there are many ways to use adverbs! :)

For those of you who were on the 1.5 book, we will begin the 1.6 reading book. There will be many more cool stories to read. Reading is such fun! We can learn so many things from it, and I encourage you all to start reading at least 1 book a week. You can start with easy readers and as you progress you can move on to books with more pages and more words. You will see how great it is!

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

4B the past week

Hi 4B!

Most of you did really well on the spelling test, but some of you not so well.
These are frequently used words so at this stage I hope for you to get better scores on it.

I really enjoyed reading the story about the astronaut who goes to space. You were all very interested in the subject and I was very impressed with the questions you asked.
The new 2.1 book has many interesting stories, so I look forward to the good discussions we will have about them.

See you all tomorrow and enjoy the rest of your Saturday!

3A this week

It's another week 3A, and another week full of English! Doing your homework is very important, as is making sure that you come prepared to school. That means, that you need to make sure that you bring your folder with all the worksheets I have given you, inside neatly. You also have to bring a pencil!!!!!!!

So we started learning about adverbs last week, and this week we were introduced to comparative adverbs. Doesn't that sound familiar??? Yes it is! Very recently we learned about comparative ADJECTIVES. How is that the same to comparative adverbs. Well both comparative adverbs and comparative adjectives are comparing something. Remember adverbs are formed from adjectives!!!!
Eg. Slow is an adjective. To make it a comparative we add er: slower. To make it an adverb we add ly: slowly. To make slow a comparative adverb we add more: more slowly.

1. Adjective: The slow boy walks outside.
2.Comparative adjective: The boy is slower than the girl.
3. Adverb: The boy walks slowly.
4. Comparative adverb: The boy walks more slowly than the girl.

Due to a printing error I could not give out the usual spelling list, but students have copied it from the white board. I hope the problem can be rectified.

Note that the song for the month is Forever Young by Alphaville. Here is a link to the Youtube video with song lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHIIATt0BaM

Today for Science we read the book The very hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carlisle, as an introduction to our new lesson on the life cycle of a butterfly. Hope you enjoyed listening to it as much as I enjoyed reading it!