Third Grade Interactive Bulletin Board

This interactive bulletin board corresponds with the Utah State Core Curriculum for Third Grade, Standard 6 and Standard 8: Vocabulary-Students learn and use grade level vocabulary to increase understanding and read fluently; and Writing-Students write daily to communicate effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.

This interactive bulletin board incorporates the ideas of the theme unit (birds), building vocabulary, and learning word forms to assist them in their writing.

On the bulletin board, create a map with four stops.

• Stop one is a pond.
• Stop two is a farmer.
• Stop three is a forest.
• Stop four is a nest with baby birds.

At each stop, place an envelope. On a table nearby, place small bird cutouts, large enough for one word, and a writing utensil.

Create a large bird that can travel from station to station. The bird is traveling home to her babies, but she must stop at each station. Each station contains a question. Students answer the question with the appropriate word and write the answer on a small cutout, which they then place in the envelope. The questions help students identify parts of speech. The questions are:

• STATION 1: What is something that can be found at a pond? (NOUN, ex: fish)
• STATION 2: What are some things that farmers do? (VERB, ex. plant)
• STATION 3: How does the bird fly through the forest? (ADVERB, ex. quickly)
• STATION 4: How would you describe a baby bird? (ADJECTIVE, ex. loud)

Each day six students will answer all four questions and place their answers in the envelope. During language arts time, the teacher will show the words in each envelope. In their journal, students write a short paragraph using one of the words chosen for each category. This builds vocabulary and teaches students the function and form of words in sentences. This bulletin board would be easy to use for other language arts activities just by changing the questions.