Owl Pellet Investigation

We worked on creating a food web by dissecting owl pellets with Miss Thompson's class. The kids had to match the bones to a key to figure out what the owl ate. Afterwards, they had to put the skeleton together.

Fossils

We recently dug fossils and put them together with Mrs. Vaughan's class. Here is the finished product.

Terrariums

We partnered with Mrs. Vaughans first grade class to build terrariums. Here is a short video of our ecosystems.

Curriculum Update May 14-18

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. To all the Mothers, I hope you had a fantastic Mother's Day. The weather was definitely very nice.

I want to say a special thank you to everyone for all the snacks, cards, and gift cards during teacher appreciation last week. It truly was appreciated and meant a lot. I have been fortunate to have a wonderful group of students this year that I will dearly miss, but know each one of them has bright futures ahead.

Thank you for coming to the science fair. It meant a lot to the students and was a success!

Thursday, third grade will be taking a walking field trip to Monticello Trails Park. We will be doing a nature scavenger hunt and eating lunch. The kids are also welcome to bring any outdoor equipment they would like to play with after our scavenger hunt. Please look for the permission slip to come home in your child's Monday folder today.

Friday is our field day.


Rigby Reading
We will review reading skills used throughout the school year.

enVision Math
We covered most of perimeter and area, but I want to expose the students to the final unit, data this week before they head off to 4th grade. We will be working on reading and interpreting graphs.

Spelling
No spelling for the remainder of the school year.

Science
We are going to build ecosystems with Mrs. Vaughan's class.

Writing
The kids will be finalizing their pen pal letters and writing about what they observed in their ecosystems.

Have a fantastic week!

Curriculum Update May 7-11

I hope everyone stayed safe and dry this weekend!  We are down to our final 12 days of school; I can't believe it!

 

Our third grade science fair will take place Friday from 2:15 pm to 3:30 pm. You are more than welcome to attend at any time.

Please continue to send in reading logs. We earn a paw for every 500 minutes read. They are due every Tuesday.

Please also continue to keep track of the Olympic, Go for the Gold logs. Your child should have brought them home last week. By training for the the Olympics at home, your child will help our class. You cross out a gold medal for every 10 minutes of exercise. For every 60 minutes, there needs to be a parent signature. Each completed log is worth 3 gold medals.


Rigby Reading
We will complete part of our video games. The students blogged about what they liked and disliked about their own video game and what their goal is for the new one. When the finish, they will play each other's games again and then evaluate them on their blogs. We will also work newspapers this week, using all the skills we learned in reading this year.

enVision Math
We ended perimeter and will begin a unit on area this week. We will be covering regions, area and units, standard units, area of squares and rectangles and figure out area using the distributive property.

Spelling
No spelling for the remainder of the school year.

Science
We will continue digging for fossils with Mrs. Vaughan's class, eventually building dinosaurs from all the parts. We will also be working on our science fair boards.

Writing
The kids will be writing their last pen pal letter to their pen pals in California. They will be writing their published copy of their persuasive summer vacation paper.

Have a fantastic week!