The Adventures of 3rd Grade

Check out the work in progress!  They did so wonderful!!

If you missed it, here is the video of us reading our Ruby Bridges Videos to our Primary and Nursery Friends!  We hope  you like it!!

Third Graders have begun our new unit on Electricity.  For the first experiment, they had to use the materials provided to make the light bulb light.  They had no idea, but through trial and error they created their first simple circuit.  There were squeals of delight as each student got their bulb to light.  Our next experiment was with batteries.  They learned what voltage was and then had to predict which battery they thought would have the most voltage (aaa, aa, c, d)  Many thought that D would have more because it was bigger.  To their astonishment, all had the same voltage.  This made us really start to think what voltage really means and why batteries come in different sizes!  It was an excellent discussion.

Amelia’s parents came in to play some holiday Jazz music for us.  We were entertained by many carols and got to participate in the Twelve Days of Christmas.  The kids loved singing along with all of the songs.  Enjoy the pictures and videos! We sure did!

Mady’s grandma (Nona) came in last week to spread some holiday and winter cheer.  She read us a Tacky the Penguin book and we had a special snack.  We also made these adorable penguins.  We love having special guests share their talents with us! 

These Third Graders sure know how to run a business!  We had a very successful garlic sale! Here are some pictures of the two-day sale.

Here are some pictures of 3rd grade’s butter-making process.  The first day (pictured)  we made 42 jars and bagged a lot of garlic.  The 2nd day, we made 160 something jars!  Thank you to everyone that came to help, and a HUGE thank you to our kitchen and maintenance crew  for help with cleaning our mess!  We can’t wait to sell our products next week!

Thanks to Riley’s mom, Amy,  for these amazing Photos!  We now have background knowledge of a dairy farm to make our garlic butter.

How can you not enjoy a 70 degree day in November!?!  3A spent some time soaking up the sunshine (and vitamin D) and getting cursive done.  The all earned an a+ in sun bathing!  I sure hope we get some more days like this!