Ms. CAiro's Third Grade
Not only did the children carve pumpkins using hammers and cookie cutters, but they also did some math, too! They measured the circumference of their pumpkins, counted the lines, measured the height, and counted the number of seeds inside. We practiced one of our recently-learned math counting strategies, and put the seeds in groups of ten, and then in groups of hundred to make counting a bit easier. A huge thank you to everyone who donated pumpkins, let us borrow hammers, and volunteered their time. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! We had such a wonderful time. Thank you for sharing your littles with me! There are lots of pictures below, so be sure to scroll through them all!
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The children worked SO hard the week before the Fall Festival! Thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our school and everything we stand for at Seaside! Thank you for baring with me as well. Things have been a bit hectic with the close of the first quarter, and I know I have not updated the website in a while! The children have been working hard to practice sequencing a story. They work together with their tables to recall events in a story, and piece together the story in the correct order. The tricky part is placing the supporting details in the correct sections of the story! A few Friday's ago, we had so many wonderful volunteers come in to assist with wet-felting pumpkins! Thank you to everyone who came to help-it was an enjoyable experience for everyone who came:) The children were able to see the plain, white wool first. Then, they were able to dye the white wool orange using Kool-Aid. Using dish soap, the children rolled the wool into balls and made a pumpkin shape. After the balls had time to dry, the children embroidered them to make them look like pumpkins! The children have been practicing place value using money, place value discs, base ten blocks, and drawings to represent numbers of varying values in the past few weeks. We have also been practicing comparing numbers using greater than, less than, and equal to signs! Here are some fun outdoor play moments from the past few weeks! We've done lots of work in the garden in the past month! Together we have harvested okra (let me know if you have any good recipes!), discovered a few baby watermelons in the garden underneath some vines, and planted broccoli (thanks Kuder family!). We also put our measurement skills to work as the children created rows 30 centimeters apart in preparation for us to plant seeds! If you frequent the class webpage, you may notice it looks a little different.
Though I like the look of the old webpage a lot better, the pictures were very small!! This layout makes the pictures a lot more "viewable", and easier to save to your computer (: The tabs have not changed. They can be found at the top of the page, instead of the left. There are additional tabs listed under "more". Thanks for adapting to this change with me! Jen We had the WONDERFUL opportunity to have Annie's grammie, Ms. Harper, come in and do an activity for her Graduate Building Literacy Through Play Course (though UNF) with our second grade class! This activity incorporated literacy, science, engineering, critical thinking, cooperative learning, social/emotional development opportunities, and (arguably the most important), PLAY! First, the children listened to the The Billy Goat Gruff. Then, the children were given the task to create a bride tall enough that a boat could fit under, yet sturdy enough to hold a small/medium/large billy goat. The child had one afternoon to construct their bridges, and then another afternoon to make finishing touches. We also tested the bridges to see just how sturdy they were...everyone's bridges held ALL of the billy goats! The children worked so well together. We have a class full of cooperative engineers...look out, world! The children, Ms. Harper, and I had such a wonderful time watching the children explore the materials given to them, build bridges to meet the challenges facing the billy goats (the troll!!), and solving problems that arose as they were building. The children practiced using a ruler as a number line, just one of many addition and subtraction strategies learned in second grade. Here are some pictures of the children measuring various objects, and practicing basic addition and subtraction strategies. |
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December 2016
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