It's just around the corner!

It's TCAP time again! That would be the Tennessee standards based test that students take at the end of the year, for anyone who doesn't know. In a few years everything will be Common Core based, but until then we keep taking the same ole' TCAP test.

For the past 4 weeks we at the Hills have been preparing our students by doing in-depth Boot Camp practice on specific strategies and standards. I have been focusing on the Language Arts standards. I haven't taken a lot of pictures lately, but this week I managed to get out my camera.

Here are some pics of students getting to practice their comprehension of synonyms and antonyms by working together on some centers.

I know I've enjoyed seeing all the 3rd grade students these past 4 weeks, but I gotta admit.... I miss just having my kiddos! Just one more day of Boot Camp, then next week is testing. We can do it!!

Boot Camp- Complete Sentences

I didn't post here about last week's Boot Camp lesson. Instead, I posted on our Third Grade Thinkers blog. This week I will post on both, just to cover my bases. :)

My lesson for Boot Camp was making complete sentences. So, of course we had to go over what a sentence needs to be complete. Here comes a jingle!

Sentence Jingle:

A sentence, sentence, sentence

Is complete, complete, complete

When 5 simple rules

It meets, meets, meets.

It has a subject, subject, subject

And a verb, verb, verb

It makes sense, sense, sense

With every word, word, word.

Add a capital letter, letter

And an end mark, mark.

Now we're finished and aren't we smart?

Now our sentence has all its parts.

Huh!

Alpha Team:

Bravo Team:
By far this was the best team of the day. Great job, Soldiers!

Charlie Team:

Delta Team:

After practicing the song and talking about sentences, we practiced identifying complete sentences and fragments. Mrs. Jackson worked on types of sentences in her room, and Ms. Roach and Ms. Chastain worked on math skills. They promised to update the Third Grade Thinkers blog with information about their lessons, so make sure to check!

p.s. Check back tomorrow morning to see our newest BIG PLANS interview! Photojournalist Ramsay Fulbright!