3FT Third Grade Thoughts: St. Patrick's Day!

The students celebrated St. Patrick's Day a little early by dressing up in green!

Thank you to all of the parents who came to Student Led Conferences and spent some time completing curricular activities with our students. Five centers were set up around the classroom for the students to complete and a variety of projects were displayed around the room and in the hallway.

Language Arts~Making Words and Writing
Science~Survivor Challenge
Math~Rounding Robots and Domino Revolution

This week was our Spell-a-thon test! The students completed another pre-test at the beginning of the week to make sure they knew which few words they still needed to work on. They also completed a Fancy Word page, designing their words into bubble letters, block letters or with stripes and polka dots.

We were so impressed with the improvement they made over the course of two weeks and were SOOOOO PROUD of them all. Way to go, 3B!!!

We spent a little more time working on improving our keyboarding skills with Typing Club.

In Language Arts, the students worked on typing their St. Patrick's Day limericks to display on their pot of gold art projects.

We also worked through a few non-fiction reading passages about St. Patrick's Day, rainbows and leprechauns. After reading the passage together as a class, the students answered comprehension questions by reading back and pulling out important facts.

Our St. Patrick's Day Dictionary Dig was a favourite. The students worked in groups to find St. Patrick's Day words in the dictionary and record the definition, make a sentence and draw a picture about the word.

In Math, we worked on drawing pictures to represent equal groups and multiplication equations. They were also able to write equations after given a visual representation. We read through a number of word problems and solved them using the process of multiplication.

We also started a Star Wars multiplication book that the students love!

In Science, we continued to test different kinds of joining materials. The students were given twelve toothpicks and used puffed wheat, plasticine and marshmallows to make a cube. They found that the plasticine was the strongest and held the most weight.

We also competed a challenge to determine the strength of shapes and how to make a shape stronger. We concluded that if you add a diagonal to reinforce the shape from corner to corner, it will be stronger. Peter Caron talked about this during our bridge building workshop last week and the kids were able to test it this week.

In PE, we learned about handball and the students practiced the side pass, hip pass and overhand pass. They also had the opportunity to use their passing skills in a few games of handball.