This week, the students finished their book reports in preparation for our 100+ Books Party on Friday, June 22. We also had a chance to use the Promethean board in Sharon's room to review our class blog and remember all the activities that we did in Room 5 this year.
The grade 3 students began to build a model of a pioneer village using wooden building blocks. In the village are a general store, a blacksmith, a home/farm, a mill and a school.
In math, after reading the story of Anno's Multiplying Jar, the students worked in pairs to solve the mathematical mystery of figuring out how many jars there are at the end of the story. It was a surprise to find that there were over 3 million! The class also learned the higher grade concept of factorials to help write the sentence 1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9x10 as 10!. The children began to learn about different math words, based on the ABC book G is for Googol, abacus, binary code, cubit...
In science, many more butterflies came out of their chrysalids and we released those outside at recess on Thursday. There are 3 chrysalids left. We talked about if the caterpillars/butterflies have lived their lives always inside, how do they know how to fly? The bean plants are growing very fast! The class discussed how the stems know to grow up (toward the light or photropism) and the roots know to grow down (due to gravity or geotropism) and how water pressure keeps the stems upright. The class also watched a DVD about different kinds of soil.
The students learned how to wind wool into balls of yarn from the skeins of yarn we dyed with Kool-Aid. The class learned about the different processes that bring sheep fleece (wool) to finished woven fabric made into clothing (fleece, carding, spinning, dying, weaving, sewing). They also continued weaving on their looms. The students had a chance to try the spinning wheel as well!
To get a feel for handwriting more than 100 years ago, the children learned how to use quills (actually we used turkey feathers) to write with ink. The students practiced writing all the letters of the alphabet, their full names (or signatures) and a famous pangram sentence:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." (A pangram is a sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet.)
On Tuesday, the class went to the gym to watch the dress rehearsal for the spring concert.
Books read aloud this week:
G is for Googol by David M. Schwartz
Pelle's New Suit by Elsa Beskow
A Pioneer's Life from A - Z byBobbie Kalman
My Family Vacation by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Mitsumasa Anno
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