Today students had the opportunity to engineer their very own racing pathways for magnet races! We revisited our Magnets unit to explore how magnets attract and repel to power small vehicles!
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This week, students were introduced to a 4th grade Social Studies standard! We previewed Native American content in the hopes that students will be prepared with a bit of background knowledge of the Native American culture and some of the tribes! Today, students continued the Magnets unit by experimenting with plastic bottles, pipe cleaners, different magnetic forces and even water! Not only did students conduct the experiment, documented results and even had the chance to compare results!! Om day one, student received a Magnets Study Guide for the upcoming Magnets Assessment. To begin Day 2, we reviewed every element of the study guide, then we organized those elements into Magnet Booklets! Today students began our 3rd Grade Magnets unit! we began our unit with complete observation and exploration of magnetic fields. Today, students explored a new fact practice manipulative! Students have a larger than life flash card displayed on the SMART Board and are able to write the product and check the answer!
Students have had a bit of a hectic day, so during Reading NBI, it was nice to have everyone choose a comfy spot to read a good book! Mean old Mrs. West did not give students a study guide for their upcoming Economics Assessment! Instead, students had to create their own Study Guide! The ONLY requirements were WHAT was on the study guide. Students were able to choose the format of their study guide. It's a proud teacher moment when your students group themselves for their Math NBI instruction!! Today we had our 2nd school-wide STEM Day. Students engineered monsters out of geometric shapes. SCIENCE: S3L2. Students will recognize the effects of pollution and humans on the environment. b. Identify ways to protect the environment. • Conservation of resources • Recycling of materials TECHNOLOGY: https://jr.brainpop.com/science/conservation/reducereuserecycle/ https://www.brainpop.com/math/geometryandmeasurement/polygons/ ChatterPix app YouTube Channel ENGINEERING: Students will construct geometric monsters, using recycled materials. MATH: MGSE3.G.1 Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories. This Week students are working very hard to tie up loose ends and master as many math standards as they can! We are using our Math NBI time to meet in small groups since we all have different standards to work on! WHAT A DAY!!!! Today, students visited the Tellus Museum and reviewed all they learned earlier this year, about fossils! We had a jam-packed schedule and students had a wonderful time! A HUGE thank you to every single one of my classroom parents who joined us on the trip today!!! Our kids will remember this day, for sure!! Today we continued our economics unit by learning the difference between financial needs and wants. Students created items they would want to sell to consumers. As a class we created a catalog and compare the items as needs or wants! Students completed our Needs and Wants activity by writing a written summary of our items catalog. Today students began their Economics unit! We began by exploring currency and how the values differ within different countries. We reviewed American currency and then... created our own!! Our math workshop performance task covered 4 different math standards!!! Students were given items and the prices of each item. Students then had to show how the price of different items can change the amount of money needed!
In honor of April being Military Children's Month, students wrote SENSATIONAL Opinion Writings describing the lives of Military Families. As a class, we researched each military branch, created a prewriting graphic organizer and then formatted paragraphs to express our opinion. This writing served as the students final reassessment of the 3rd grade Opinion Writing Standard! Today, students created summary study guides of multiple 3rd grade math standards! We used these study guide posters as a way to review for our Math Milestones test AND as a general content review for our end of the year reassessments! These 3rd graders worked INCREDIBLY hard on these posters! The coolest learning moment was having students make corrections to problems... this showed that students were paying attention to the content their classmates included on their posters!
Today, to review for our Reading & Language Arts Milestones AND to complete multiple reading reassessments, students wrote book reports! Students were asked to choose 1 fiction book and 1 nonfiction book and answer 5 questions about each book. Each of the required questions reflect one of our grade level reading standards! Students were given a drafted email from our principal, Dr. C. Unfortunately, Dr. C cannot send the email to parents, because of a number of errors. Students used our editing steps known as CUPS to make corrections to Dr. C's email! CUPS (Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling) Students, then had to apply corrections they made into super sentences, of their own! |
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February 2017
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