Enviroscape by maddie

Hi I am Maddie!
i am talking about our enviroscape activity in Social Studies.  We explored how humans affect the environment.  Humans pollute the environment in many ways-littering, not cleaning up dirt dog waste and grass clippings.  All of this stuff gets into the water from our sewers! 

   

                         This is us polluting the town the polltion is soy sauce   

 This is my friend adithi polluting the town with the soy sauce

 This is all the pollotion isn't that bad what if we did that ew i would not want to live on this planet

This is when we were making it rain with sqrit bolltes all the polltion went to the lake 

 

This is all the pollotion in the lake the town is dirty poor town :)  Here is how we can help-plant more trees or plants, just don't litter, and be kind to the Earth by picking up! 

Our First Teamwork Party By Lucia

Hi! I’m Lucia, and I’m here to tell you about our first TEAMWORK party! How we had to earn it is every time we were doing something really good, like waiting patiently for Mrs. Schuh to finish something, we would get a Student Point. But every time we were not waiting patiently or something like that, Mrs. Schuh would get a Teacher Point. Mrs. Schuh does not like getting Teacher Points! Every time we win in Student Points, we earn a letter of the word TEAMWORK. Then we put it up on the wall. Once we spelled T-E-A-M-W-O-R-K, we would get a TEAMWORK party! When we earned all the letters, everybody got excited! But we handled our excitement well. Good job, everybody! Once we got calmed down, we got on the star rug for Brain Break and voted. Two choices, BYOE (bring your own electronics) Day and PJ Day, tied! We voted again. PJ Day won!

                      

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The day of PJ day, everyone was admiring each other’s PJ’s and accents, such as slippers or a hat. Me and Ceci bought Comfortable Seating, which is a blanket or a pillow which you keep all the time in our classroom to make your seat comfy, with our Starbucks, which you might know about from Curriculum Night! I’m not sure, though.

We had lots of fun! Even Mrs. Schuh had her jammies on! See the pictures below for visual info about our first teamwork party! Bye!

Our World by Sara

Hi my name is Sara, and today I'm going to tell you about our world mapmaker activity.  We went outside today and used chalk to draw a circle to show our world. Then we drew our lines of latitude and longitude.We wrote the degrees for each line.  After we were done with that step,we drew our continents. Witch are Asia,North America,Antarctica, South America,Africa,Australia, and Europe.

                               We used the compass rose to find out our cardinal directions.

                                           We drew the Equator and the Prime Meridian.

                                           We drew our lines of latitude and longitude.

                                                Some world maps are big,and some are small.

                                                 We drew our continents in this picture.

Prove It! The Important Part of Mental Addition and Subtraction by Mrs. Schuh

I must have said "You guys are knocking my socks off" at least five times today (this makes me giggle because my last name is Schuh)!  I kept thinking, "I have to blog about these thinkers!"  

   In Science, Mr. Kearney began talking about soil.  The class immediately connected their new knowledge on soil to what we learned in Social Studies about ecosystems.  As a class, they concluded that soil is an ecosystem with only a few thinking prompts from Mr. Kearney and I.  It gave me chills to hear them connect the learning so quickly and authentically!  

   In math, we celebrated all the mental addition and subtraction strategies we use.  Again, the conversations gave me chills.  I wish I could have bottled them up and saved them!  We used our review packet to discuss mental computation strategies and how to show thinking in as many ways as possible.  The only directions I gave the class were to talk first-share your answers and how you got them.  After each voice was heard, I asked them to prove their answers in as many ways as possible.  I had to grab an ipad to document this amazing thinking and group work!  Please check out the work below and continue to ask your third grader how they know their answers are correct (in any subject-not just math!).

Playdoh Landforms by Ceci

Hi my name is Ceci. I will be telling you about are playdoh landforms! We made landforms such as mountains, islands, volcano, and mesas. We made them out of playdoh! First I want to say mesa is the spanish word for table. So it is a lot like a table but also like a hill with out a peak. You probly know what an island is. But we found out islands are just mountains that are growing under water.  After we made a mountain, we put our mountains together to make a mountain range.  Check out our colorful mountain range below!  I think you know all the other land forms.  I thought this was a fun time to learn about landforms!