After exploring the three properties of addition, The Soaring Pilots put their new knowledge to work during a Toss and Talk activity. Test your third grader and see if they can tell you about: the commutative property of addition, identity property of addition and the associative property of addition.Properties of Addition
After exploring the three properties of addition, The Soaring Pilots put their new knowledge to work during a Toss and Talk activity. Test your third grader and see if they can tell you about: the commutative property of addition, identity property of addition and the associative property of addition.
Garden of Learning
This week we studied communities in nature. We learned about the living and non-living things that can be found in an ecosystem. Today, we put all our knowledge to work by becoming observers of our own pond habitat. Students had to explore and observe to find the living and non-living things and then use that knowledge along with the science vocabulary to come up with a description of our habitat. The lesson conclude with students creating a graphic source about the pond. Great job everybody!International Day of Peace
The Soaring Pilots made pinwheels for peace. Each pinwheel contains a message or saying to help promote peace. We decided to take the pinwheels outside and try to make our own peace symbol. It didn't quite work, so we made a video with our sayings for peace. The final product is now on the Mark Twain wall of peace in the front hallway by Mrs. Gee's room.
Our Community of Words
Acrostic poetry using words to describe a community like town or city and words that describe how a community works together like respect and cooperation.Acrostic Poetry
As part of our planner, we worked together to define what a community is and what it needs when it is established. This led to a 'wordle' - a word cloud describing community. The Soaring Pilots came up with the clever idea of writing an acrostic poem for each word! Each student choose a word and then used it to tell us what they know about it. Next, we illustrated our words using watercolors. The end result is amazing. They are hanging in the third grade hallway and are a must see! Mrs. Patin walked by today and was impressed with our knowledge! Money Money Money
We are playing a money counting game during math time. Your partner gives you dollars and cents to count and you have to show the amounts using dollar and cents notation. We have discovered that counting coins is easier if you start with the largest amount first. (That means don't start with pennies!) Also, you have to line up your decimal points when you are adding up all the amounts.
Self-Portraits
We read a book about Vincent VanGogh called Camille and The Sunflowers. It fit right into our planner about communities because the story was about how people did not like Vincent because he was different. This lead straight to the activity where we create our own self-portraits and notice how wonderful all our differences are!! I had a meeting in the office and noticed these mirrors and thought what a great way to show our reflections. Since I couldn't carry them all, the whole class snuck into the office and carried them upstairs. The class was noticed by several teachers because of they were being so principled and everyone was helping each other! AAAAHHHHH Testing!!
It's true we are testing on Fridays! The Soaring Pilots did a great job being respectful of each other, raising their hands when they had a question and being risk-takers when they got a tough question. The tests will come home in the Tuesday Folders. Please take a minute to go over the work with your child. Discuss their strategies for solving the problems and review problems that are incorrect. I have been known to make mistakes when grading!! If you have a question or notice a mistake please return to my attention.
Habitats
We have discovered that there are many types of communities including animal communities. We spent some time researching about different types of habitats in small groups. Next, we had to teach the rest of the class about it. Did you know that there are cold deserts and three different kinds of grasslands?
Place Value
We have spent this week exploring place value in different ways. Today, The Soaring Pilots had to work in cooperative groups to solve the place value riddle. As you can see they are using a variety of strategies to find the answers! Way to go!
Our Community
The Soaring Pilots have completed their T-shirts and have bonded as a community. We have learned a lot about each other and have made new friends. We decided that our class motto is: We are risk-takers! We will utilize the powers of respect, cooperation, friendship and caring to keep our community strong. I am excited to see where we go this year!!
What is your name worth?
The Soaring Pilots were very busy discovering what their name was worth using a coded alphabet. First we used the code to create unifix towers for each letter of our name. Next, we predicted whose name would be worth more or less based on the size and quantity of towers on their desk. Finally, we had to calculate the total and find where in the graph our name belongs.
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