Apr 30
Max shared his passion for the violin. He played us many amazing tunes and answered all questions.
Emma also shared her passion for Gymnastics! She shared a movie of some of her competitions. She also shared her warm-up gear and trophies.
Great passions!
Apr 28
Today the green group got a lesson in learning their 50 states! Thanks to the brilliant mind of Mr. Kindig! We used silly sayings and illustrations to learn the shape and capital of the state.
Here are some that the kids came up with:
“I saw an arc on a little rock”. – Little Rock, Arkansas
“I’m ill in the nose because I was in a field in the spring” – Springfield, Illinois
Such a great lesson!
Apr 23
Today Noah shared his passion for baseball. He brought in props and even baseball cards. Awesome job, Noah!
Apr 21
Green grouped learned where the regions were on the map by finding them with shaving cream. They each had a map and they outlined them and labeled them in the shaving cream. What a way to end the day!
Apr 21
We are kicking off a new reading unit garbage and recycling!
Your children over the next several weeks will be diving into answering some important questions:
* What is garbage? Where does it go? Even what is dung? ( third grade boys love to talk about this!) They will learn the history of garbage – (which is rather gross)and why our garbage system today is important. They will also be inspired to find ways to make it better. We have too much garbage today- what can we do? This is an important unit in third grade. We hope they come home inspired!
Today Miss Santella spent time with 3A assessing their prior knowledge and giving them background knowledge before we start our books. Each table got a bag with different garbage inside to analyze the garbage and see if they knew what to do with it. 3b and 3c will do these activities next.
Apr 09
Theo can dunk.
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Apr 07
After taking the time to read the story: Stone Fox – the children are excited to watch the movie. The movie was an option to choose for the afternoon and they got to write the similarities and differences in a graphic organizer. They found many differences!
Apr 07
Today we met Noah and his father Lou from Brockport, NY. They are the owners of Avalanche racing (avalancheracingkennel.com). We learned that Noah won the junior Iditarod last year and he was also the first nonalaskan to ever win the race! He Showed us his adorable lead dog Rain and his sled and equipment he uses to race. He told us he’s always been interested in mushing, but did not get started officially until he was 14. At 16, he had won the junior Iditarod. We loved hearing all the stories he shared. He trained under the leader Dallas Seavey and learned a lot from him. He told us for great information check out DallasSeavey.com.
Apr 07
3b has been plugging along in Literature circles and have all finished their books. Because of this, they are starting a project to showcase their learning. They have been learning how to sequence events in a story. For their project, they have to choose 4 parts of their Alaska book and create a diorama that showcase the 4 parts. They created a picture and wrote a sentence or two about each part.
They are turning out great. I’m not sure if the other 2 classes will finish in time for this project, but I hope so!
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