As part of our planner, we are learning how a government helps a community to grow. In this video, we have the House of Representatives and the Senate debating about a bill that they want to become a law. In the end, we have two new laws for our community. One is called the GET IN LINE law and the other is the LEARNING law.
Self Portraits
We read the book Camile and the Sunflowers which is a historical story of Vincent VanGogh. We discovered information about communities in the past and how different things are in today's world. The one thing we discovered that was the same is that people are different and we need to respect those differences. Next, we decided to try portraits like Vincent Van Gogh. We will use the resulting artwork as a poem writing activity.Graphing
Last week we learned all about graphing. We gathered data about our first names and made a tally chart. Next, we took the information from the tally chart and created a bar graph. Then we made it a little more interesting by using manipulatives to represent the value of our names based on an alphabet chart. The resulting bar graph was very interesting. We could easily determine who miscounted, whose name was longest (Christopher-103 cubes!) and whose name was shortest (Cami- 27 cubes). We also discovered easy ways to count large quantities of things. Way to go, Fantastic Frogs!Twenty Minutes!
We usually end the week by turning in our twenty minutes for Fun Fridays! Remember I spoke about this at open house. The students will lose minutes for not following the essential agreement which is : Work Hard and Be Nice. We decided that this one rule applies to all areas of our community. Here are a few examples of the ways The Fantastic Frogs decided to use this time.Writers At Work
The Fantastic Frogs just had their first experience with the writing cycle. We have written stories to go along with our community creations. However, our stories are about what happens when a school, or bank or post office do not exist in a community. We have learned that everyone in the community needs to work together.
Testing??
Yes, we take a lot of tests in third grade! You can see in the picture we have our 'offices' set up so that we are not bothered if someone else finishes early. This picture was taken by the photographer of the week: Haven.Who are the Fantastic Frogs
The Fantastic Frogs had a great time working together to complete this acrostic poem project. It was great listening to them help each other come up with adjectives or words that begin with the letter in their names. You could tell that we have already become a third grade community. Way to go, Fantastic Frogs!
Homework News
Get a Voki now!
Parents, we will be attempting to complete our homework via a WIKI this week in class. Please have your student show you what we worked on in class. I am hoping that this week everything will be up and running. Any questions or concerns, please email me via the WIKI. Thank you, Ms. Musters
Fantastic Frogs
ready to hop into the classroom! Exactly what a teacher needs to see first thing in the morning...smiling, happy, eager faces!!Math Problem Solvers
Scroll down to click pause on playlist so you can hear The Fantastic Frogs at work!
We were presented a real world math problem today when Mrs. Blakeslee arrived with a huge box of kleenex and said that they had to be divided equally among the third grade teachers. Listen in as these amazing third graders found interesting ways of solving the problem.
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