Yay! We are back and kicking on our blog! Happy 2014 from the Rock Stars!
The first few weeks of 2014 have been awesome! We hit our 100th Day on Thursday! Can you believe it? We celebrated by making 100th day hats, eating a 100 snack, doing 100 exercises, flipping a coin and graphing it 100 times, writing about what we would do with 100 dollars, conducting an experiment with 100 chews of a Starburst, and making 100 gumball art! We had a blast!
In reading we have been working on theme. This can be kind of tricky, but we have had perseverance and have gotten really good at it! We practiced using fables, tall tales, and even Disney movies!
In math we finished up fractions, had a quick unit on measurement, and now we are moving to time. Students should know how to tell time to the minute and solve elapsed time problems. We will be working on that more this week.
I science we have been all about matter. We conducted experiments on how to find volume and mass. We loved getting those graduated cylinders!
We just finished our latest read aloud, "The Wizard of Oz." The kids loved hearing the differences between the novel and the movie. A lot of unexpected twists and turns!
We also are right in the middle of our class book "President of the Whole Fifth Grade." We chose this book because we are about to begin our government study in social studies! With a background in elections, the government study will come easy!
Happy 2014 and stay tuned for more insight into the lives of your third graders!
