Collaboration

The theme of our nine weeks was friendship.  We learned that friendship comes in many different shapes, sizes and ways....it can even come through animals.  Students actively work together to complete Venn Diagrams which will in turn help them to complete a writing assignment that compares the theme of friendship found within the stories we have read this nine weeks.   Some of the stories we have read are Because of Winn Dixie, Rosie the Visiting Dog, The Stories Julian Tells, Balto, the Dog that Saved Nome and Leah's Pony.

Multiplication Collaboration

Games are not only fun, but they are an integral part of our learning process.  Our class loves playing different Math games during Math review time....there are even times when we play Math games during our lesson time as reinforcement.  In the pictures below, students are completing a Robot competition.  Students used a spinner to come up with two factors that they had to multiply together.  If they answered the problem correctly they were able to draw a  piece of their robot.  Using multiplication strategies they are racing to see who can complete drawing their robot first. 

Parent Portal

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Subjects and Predicates

We have been learning all about subjects and predicates. The pictures below show the students actively putting subjects and predicates together. Prior to putting the subjects and predicates together to form complete sentences, the students colored the subjects red and the predicates blue.

Card Subtraction

With the new CCGPS students have more opportunity to explore and reinforce concepts with hands-on activities. Students in third grade must add and subtract fluently to/from 1,000. One such activity reinforces the concept of subtraction using playing cards. Students work in pairs and as they draw a card for the deck, they must keep a running subtraction total. Not only are the students reinforcing their math skills, but more importantly, they are talking to each other and sharing their methods and math vocabulary.

Edible Rocks

We have been studying rocks and minerals for the last several weeks. As a treat, when we finished studying the three different types of rocks, the students were able to make edible rocks. To represent metamorphic rocks students took three cubes of bread. The students took the cubes of bread and they used heat and pressure to make their rocks. For igneous rocks we melted chocolate then let it cool. Sedimentary rocks were made using graham crackers as the base. We then added sediment (swedish fish, sprinkles, icing, cocoa pebbles).
We had a great time being creative....eating the rocks was fun too!

Science Vocabulary