Tuesday Update

   I hope that you had a wonderful long weekend with your children! We had a busy, busy, busy time in class last week! The class played a fun game called "Scoot" to review their knowledge of adjectives. They literally had to scoot around the room to find the answers!

  In social studies, students continued to work on their ABC's of Alabama book. They have really enjoyed working in partners for this fun research project!

  On Friday, students started their own Padlets (see also www.padlet.com) where they will be writing about what they are reading each week. We have a hallway display that allows others around the school to view their website through a QR code. The students were thrilled with this project, to say the least!

 

Padlet display in the hallway using QR Codes

Working on ABC's of Alabama books

Using Google Docs to write sentences using adjectives.

"Winter Is..." descriptive poems on our snowmen!

Playing Adjective Scoot

Happy New Year!

    We have had a great first week back in third grade! The students have already jumped back in to work. We also welcomed a new student teacher, Miss Baxter, from Samford. She will be joining us until May 5 to observe and will teach some lessons under my guidance and supervision. The students and I are very excited for her to join us!

  This week in math, students began learning about graphing and started graph problem solving. We will continue working on graphing next week.

  A fun activity that the students have been involved in this week is an ABC's of Alabama booklet. Students are researching different aspects of Alabama and are creating a colorful book to go along with their information using the laptops.

  I have included some pictures from our class Christmas party in December! Sorry they are late.

December Updates

  We have had a great time in December staying busy! We have gotten to see the fourth grade Christmas program and watch two of the classmates participate in the school spelling bee!

  Students have been busy learning, too! Each child was assigned a different winter holiday around the world. These included Christmas in different countries, Hannukah, Chinese New Year, St. Lucia Day, and many, many more! This week the students will be presenting their findings as the resident expert on this holiday celebration.

  Another fun activity that students participated in was called "The Hour of Code". Students learned how to do simple computer programming for an hour in the classroom. They were able to help build code for games such as Star Wars, Minecraft, and Frozen. They really enjoyed getting to see what it would be like to become a computer programmer! They joined millions of children around the world. You can read more at hourofcode.com

    ***Don't forget early dismissal Friday at 1:30***

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

We have had a good week returning from Thanksgiving break!  In reading, the students are doing expert projects on various winter holidays around the world! They will be presenting their findings in a week. 

In math, students have started learning division. Keep practicing multiplication facts! We will continue having times tests on multiplication for the next several weeks. 

This week in science, we learned the parts of a bone and practiced doing fun tasks without our thumb joints. Look at the photos to see students trying to draw, zip, button, and even tie shoes without the use of their thumbs. 

Congratulations to Julia Anne and Evie who made it far in the school spelling bee! We are all so proud of them!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have had a lot of fun activities these past couple of weeks in class! One of the highlights was beginning our unit on bones and joints. The students loved trying to count their own bones and assembling "Mr. Bones". They were shocked to find that teeth aren't actually bones!

Another fun activity we completed was an "I'm Thankful For..." turkey writing activity. The fun part was that kids had to draw for their topic. Some examples were: fire drills, baby wipes, and paper. They loved this creativity activity reminding them to be thankful for the small things in life! 

Oh, and don't forget - no school all of next week! Happy a very happy Thanksgiving! 

Can you believe it's November?

  We have had a great couple of weeks here in third grade!  Students have been reading about inventors and how sports engineering has helped aid athletes in their various sports! One of their favorite books that they have read was about brilliantly ridiculous inventions. To have more fun with the topics, students created their own ridiculous inventions! They had to create a unique name, a slogan, a short description, price, and illustration for their inventions.

  The students had a blast last week using pumpkins for math. Thank you to each of you who volunteered to help by attending and/or bringing in a pumpkin! 

  Don't forget that we won't have school next Wednesday due to Veterans' Day!