03/23/2016

This week’s Carbon School District update brought in Sally Mauro Third Grade teachers, Mrs. Caroline Barrington, Mrs. Camille Carmack and Mrs. Christina Anderson to share what has been going on this year with their third grade students.
 
Students have been busy all year with Genre projects, which is a program to teach different types of reading. They started at the beginning of the school year with Mystery/Authors crafts, where students read two books and deciphered how the author wrote that particular book. Barrington described a more personal genre project conducted by the students, “Multi-culture, where they learned about the different cultures, a lot of them learned about their own culture and they have to do a collage to show about all of the things that, the customs, the food, the dancing, everything that they do.” Students also made a pop-up book when it came time for the Historical Fiction genre.
 
The Biography project was a fun activities and a great opportunity to really get in to character of what students had read. “Back in February we introduced the project to them and they each chose a person that they were interested in doing the biography on and they found a book either in the library or at home or something and they read the book and wrote a 3 paragraph essay about that person,” said Carmack. Third grade students dressed up as their chosen characters, ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Pro Soccer player Mia Hamm. The third graders then set up as a wax museum in the lunchroom for the entire student body and parents to come visit;  visitors were welcomed to obtain more information of the character by pushing a button and a brief description was read out loud by that student.
 
Match has been keeping teachers busy, so they came up with an incentive program for students to get them excited and work hard to learn their math facts in addition with the common core math. Anderson said, “The students started passing off their facts during second quarter and they had till the end of third quarter to get zero to ten passed off.”  Most of the students went as far as passing their 11s and 12s.
 
The third grade students are now prepping for Sage Testing which is the most important testing done towards the end of the school year. 
 
To learn more about activities at Sally Mauro Elementary visit their website at http://www.carbonschools.org/SallyMauro.cfm
 
 

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