If you get a chance, come check out the murals hanging outside the third grade pod. The kids did a marvelous job! They even used labels to help teach passers by how things have changed for children.
Next, third graders will use our murals to teach even more. Each mural group will write a basic paragraph explaining their mural. Today they learned that a paragraph can be like a hamburger! (Bet you didn't know that! :o) The top bun is the topic sentence. The hamburger, lettuce, tomatoes and pickles are the details. The details support the topic sentence. (Because without the juicy details, your burger won't taste so great.) Finally, the bottom bun is the concluding sentence which wraps the paragraph up. Notice that without the top bun (topic sentence) and the bottom bun (concluding sentence) your burger (paragraph) would fall apart!
Ask your third grader about the paragraph they started today. Ask them to share their topic sentence and the details they included to support it.
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