Our parent volunteers worked hard over the past year to spice up our school library! Our class visited the library for the first time this year and WOW! The beautiful colors and organization makes for a perfect place to dive into a book!!☺️
Whew! Summer break was over in a flash! We are excited for an adventurous year in 3rd grade!
~All About Equations~
This “get to know you” activity was a hit! The students loved solving for answers to personal questions about Mrs. Burkes! Following, they created equations for their own “Figure Me Out”! I hid their pictures for 2 days and revealed on Friday!
Oh the laughs I heard as we read, How to Be Cool in the Third Grade! It’s a cute story that teaches children that being "cool" goes deeper than tangible things and names, but getting to know someone and building trust. And it IS cool to let your mom give you kisses in front of your friends! :)
I will use this chapter book next week to introduce a vocabulary study. We will also study parts of speech, character traits and end with an expository writing.
Reduce, REUSE, Recycle:
Earth Day is a day of celebrating our beautiful planet and teaching others about how we can KEEP it clean. Our REUSE project showed others that a fun and creative craft can be made with old magazine pages. And the more paper we humans use, the more trees we have to cut down. And the more trees we cut down, the more animal homes we destroy.
~Old magazine pages become new photo frames ~
Testing Week is a stress free, snack eating, science fun kinda week here at St. James! Each afternoon, we strive to create fun hands-on activities for our students that work extra hard during the morning tests! This year we participated in the Middle School’s Science Team, "Trajeggtory Engineering Challenge”, egg throwing with a ‘lil physics!
Each team was given 15 minutes to use their own building materials to construct a device capable of protecting an egg. A student from the team THREW their constructed device OVER the top of the volleyball net. The device that went the FARTHEST distance WITHOUT BREAKING was declared the winner.
Wow! And just like that, we welcome the month of April! These past 2 weeks have been loaded with fun!
Our Spring Musical production of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory was a huge success last Friday evening! 3rd grade played the part of Candy-Man-Kids and did a phenomenal job! (I think we teachers have sung the familiar childhood songs since LAST year hehe) But Covid did not stop us THIS year! Thank you, Mrs. Tipton for another amazing musical!
This week in 3rd grade, we studied contractions, analyzing data, the history & geography of Badlands National Park, as well as, Holy Week. We used our creative bones and knowledge each day to paint a scene of an event that lead to Jesus’s resurrection on a stone. This afternoon we shared our Easter Story Stones with Kindergarten students.
Luke 24:6-7: "He is not here; he has risen!"
Luke 24:6-7: "He is not here; he has risen!"
“Silly rabbits, Easter is for Jesus”…..Yes, indeed, but I couldn’t help adding these adorable art pieces from this weeks lesson with Mrs. McCarley!! 🐰
