We would like to send a HUGE THANK YOU to the Rotary Club of Dallas for presenting our 3rd graders with their very own dictionaries!!! Our kiddoes LOVED looking up fun words and how to use them!
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For the past few years, Poole has participated in a nation-wide intiative to write thank you letters to our diploid soldiers overseas. Students and teachers thank our military service men and women for all they do for our country. Letters are written each year in the month of October, so that our diploid soldiers receive the letters during the Holiday season! Today we wrapped up our week long Paul Revere unit in Social Studies. Step 1: Students read Paul Rever by Tom Duchey. Step 2: Students took notes of each chapter. Step 3: Students completed a group presentation as their assessment! Students all over the school dressed up like a story character from a book they liked. Check out all the crazy characters I had in my class!! This week during our small group reading instruction, my comprehension group researched the well known explorer, Christoper Columbus! Not only did students read an online article about Columbus, they created sketch notes, took notes on notecards & combined everything into an informational writing piece! My little contractors did a phenomenal job creating buildings using arrays! Each skyscraper has its own number of windows, organized into rows and columns, resulting in some spook-tacular buildings! Students were challenged to find a real-world example of an array!! After students assembled their arrays, they HAD to give the multiplication equation and product! After learning about conductors and insulators during our heat unit, we had to experience it for ourselves! Students had the opportunity to see what it was like for penguins in snow and ice, to have "blubber" as an insulator! Students had an opportunity to practice planning, drafting, editing and publishing a narrative writing piece... Here are the finished products! Based on our extended text for this unit, Because of Winn-Dixie, today students got to TASTE real Littmus Lozenges!!! In our book, our characters describe the candies as tasting like "sadness" and "sorrow". Students wrote about what they tasted! Last week, students observed whether white or black was a better conductor of heat! Students sat pockets in the heat and measured the temperatures in ten minute intervals. |
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February 2017
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