The Adventures of 3rd Grade

The third graders had a blast with Halloween this year!  We all enjoyed seeing everyone’s costumes! 

The students of 3rd grade are working diligently on their interviews.  They have learned how to take part of the question and combine it with the answer, to make one terrific sentence.  For example:  If the question asks “how does his or her job contribute to the community”, they have to write:  “Her job contributes to the community by ____”.  It is difficult for them to understand at first.  By now, however, most children know how to do this skill.  It is one they will use often in school.

In Third Grade, we talked about the function of the leaf.  We learned that leaves need CO2, water, and sunlight to make food (sugar) and also oxygen.  The water in the bottle below will turn blue when it has oxygen.  We predicted that as photosynthesis happens, the water will turn blue – as soon as the sun came out – it did!  It showed that oxygen was being released into the water. The children also got to observe their leaves under a microscope – they were looking to see if they could see the leaf’s stoma.

In reading, we have  been  learning about   garbage.    55%   of  garbage is plastic.      It takes  some  plastic 1000  years  to break  down.   All nature   makes waste.    There  are  liquids that are garbage  that  sink to water systems.  Some landfills have  protection for that.  There is so much  waste!  There is a landfill in New Jersey and  it is twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty!

-Nicolas

I was so happy when I went up to the next floor and got  desk’s, locker’s and started learning how to play instruments! 3rd Grade is in my top five favorite grades. We just started blogging and using computers! We also started cursive, and I all ready know how to write my name in cursive.  I feel older and more responsible! A couple day’s ago I played four corners, and I got out in the first round. We started reading a new book called Lafcadio the Lion who Shot Back.   I really like the book so far.  I started basketball with Mrs.Tolhurst!  In performing arts, we are watching a movie about Beethoven.  Also, we did flips on the beanbag!!  In gym,  I thought nothing could get worse than the category of  cooperative games, but it was walking. Who walks in gym? At least next week is swimming.  We are starting Harlic Garlic!  We think we can plant 840 cloves!!! My friends and I built the map for the garden together.  We can’t start planting until it stops raining. Happy Halloween!!!!

Zachary

This morning, Mr.  Hartman stopped in for a talk about the garden.  We were hoping to plant garlic this week, but unfortunately it is raining.  (A LOT!)  Mr.  Hartman reminded us about how being a good farmer means being patient with the weather.  We will try to plant next week.  We still have a lot to do.  We will learn about the life-cycle of garlic,begin talking about our company, and of course, finishing plotting the garden.  We also have to separate the heads of garlic so that we can plant the cloves.  Ask your child how many cloves and heads we need to plant our garden!

We where using dry pasta and marshmallows to build the tallest tower, but we had to work as a team of four.  It was hard.   Ours collapsed, but it was really fun!   Well… bye!

This post was brought to you by…..Riley!

Lafcadio is a funny story that we are reading in class.  It is about a lion that learned how to use a gun.  Any time he did not get what he wanted he went “grrroar’.  He got a hair cut for free he got his pus shined and his nails done.  Now he is going to the circus.

-Mady

Hi! In 3a, we have been playing Four Corners. We’ve played three games already. You hide in four corners then someone is blindfolded and then points to one corner. If you are in the corner you are out.

erica