On the Friday before break, Mr. Welfle put on the annual Winter Sing-A-Long. As a special holiday gift, Ms. Van Sickle bought and personalized Santa and Elf hats for the students to wear to the Sing-A-Long. They really loved wearing the hats all day long!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Making Snowman out of Socks
Holidays Around the World
To celebrate the upcoming winter holidays, the third grade students participated in an event called "Holidays Around the World." Each third grade class "traveled" around the world (i.e. to the different third grade classes) to see how different countries celebrate the holidays. Check out the pictures below to see just what the students learned about...
The first stop was Mexico in Ms. Van Sickle's room. The students learned how Mexicans celebrate Christmas and then were able to sing "Feliz Navidad" and drink some Mexican hot chocolate (hot chocolate with cinnamon).
YUM! The cups are empty so it must have been good!
YUM! The cups are empty so it must have been good!
Singing "Feliz Navidad."
The next stop was Japan in Mrs. Rison's room. The students learned about Boy's and Girl's Day, which is a holiday in Japan. Here the students are making Japanese kites.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Understanding Division
In order to begin understanding division, we did an activity where we pretended we were handing cookies out to friends. The worksheet represents friends' plates and the individual pieces are cookies. We had 24 cookies to pass out to 2 friends, then to 3 friends, then to 4 friends, and then to 6 friends. We actually put the cookies onto the plates to find how many each friend would get each time.
Spirit Day #3- Mix and Match Day
Making Apple Dumplings!
On the day before Thanksgiving break, we did a second type of functional reading activity: reading and understanding recipes. We followed the directions on a recipe to prepare and bake our own apple dumplings. We then looked at a different recipe for apple dumplings and compared the text features to decide which recipe was easier to understand.
Giving Old Crayons a New Life
We tested our reading skills even further by performing a "functional reading" task. Functional reading is reading to perform a task. We read a non-fiction piece of information telling about the history of crayons. Then we followed directions to create sun catchers out of crayon shavings.
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