grade 3
SEL: Boundaries and Trust Your Gut
Most of us have a “feeling” about something, this lesson helps your child develop theirs.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- 4 activities to ease conversation or to get your child to begin thinking about this important topic and how they feel about it: definition (how they define) physical, material, and emotional boundaries, evaluate comfort level with different people having different boundaries, fact sheet based on gut, trust your gut story.
Fun: Character and Me Collage
“Who are you?” asks the Caterpillar in “Alice in Wonderland.”
This lesson has your child look at the positive attributes that makes them, them.
- YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF “THE POSSUM’S TALE,” if you want to do the full lesson
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- Questions to help your child narrow down how they feel about the characters.
- Questions to help your child focus on what they want to put in their “Me Collage”
- Two character templates given: rabbit and possum
- This lesson requires materials (included in lesson plan) so you will need to plan
Grammar: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Plural Nouns
Basic instruction on “dissecting” words so that a student can see how word meanings change with prefixes and suffixes.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives and hook to engage your child.
- Answer sheets.
- 3 activities: identify the prefix and write new word’s definition, identify the suffix and write the new word’s definition, and plural nouns with guide for when to use s, es, and ies.
Writing: Character Traits
A quality paragraph is given (with blanks to fill in) and what makes this paragraph great in red on the lesson plan so the parent can teach finer writing skills.
- YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF “THE POSSUM’S TALE” WITH THIS LESSON.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives.
- 2 complex characters to choose from: Rabbit or Possum.
- Parent guide to help student reach for better writing.
- 2 activities: Identify the character traits, fill in the paragraph (modeling).
Comprehension: Understanding of book, Antonyms, and Sequencing
The basic skills children are expected to have when reading a story to show understanding are addressed in this lesson.
- YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF “THE POSSUM’S TALE” WITH THIS LESSON.
- Lesson plan with learning objectives.
- Answer sheets.
- 4 activities: basic comprehension questions, sequencing of events, antonyms, and word scramble (stretch and form sentences with words).
digital possums
- YOU MUST HAVE A COPY OF “THE POSSUM’S TALE” WITH THIS LESSON
- Lesson plan with learning objectives
- Answers vary, however, cause and effect answer sheet is given for ideas
- 3 activities: the who, what, and where, write 5 events that occurred in the story, and cause + emotion + effect