Circles and Stars

Circle and stars is a game students play to practice multiplication facts.  Students are partnered using fair sticks.  Each set of partners are given 1 dice.  Each person has a dry erase board.  Partners take turns rolling the dice.  First roll is the number of circles drawn and the first factor.  Second roll is the number of stars in EACH circle, that is the second factor.  Students then multiply or count the number of stars to figure the product.  Easy and fun game to play at home.

Bean Division

Today we used beans to show that division is separating into equal groups or to show how many are in each group.  Just another tool for solving problems.  We spend a lot of time talking about the problem solving tools we have in our tool belt.  Tomorrow we will discuss how multiplication and division are opposites... another problem solving tool for our tool belt.

Veterans Day Fun

On Veteran's Day, we took an online scavenger hunt using QR codes to find facts about why Veterans Day is important.  We looked on three websites. We also learned about the Unknown soldier.  We scanned the QR codes to learn awesome facts about Veteran's Day.  We had to write down the important facts.  

 

Book Trailer

One of our reading groups got to be my guinea pigs.  They were given the task of reading a  book, Because of Mr. Terupt, then use an app called Haiku Deck to create a book trailer to share with others about the book and its important parts.  Click on the link below to see their trailers!!

http://www.haikudeck.com/p/fH2u5No9dX

http://www.haikudeck.com/p/LAafPHWix6

Pumpkin Math

We learn about quantitative data and qualitative data by digging in to some pumpkins.  We got to  pick  a pumpkin and name them.  We named then Bob, Bobby, and Lop.  We also did math with our pumpkins by taking out the seeds and counting the pumpkin seeds and we also weighed our self then held the pumpkin and weighed our self again then subtraced the smaller  number and thats how we got our answer.  We measured the circumference using a measuring tape.  

We also used adjectives to describe how the pumpkin looked, smelled, felt, and sounded. 

 

Halloween Partyyy

   October 29th, third grade students had the most awesome Halloween party in the gym/cafeteria.

We had lot of games.  One of the games was to hit a ghost balloon towards the pumpkins and headed back to their class the next person will do the same thing.  The next game you take a broom and sweep the pumpkin to the other pumpkin, and sweep it back.  After the games we ate snacks and took photos and felt monster teeth, ears, brains and eyeballs.  We had the most fun of all!!!  

Fire Safety Assembly

We  went to the fire safety assembly.  We learned to stay calm when there is a fire. We got to see the Jaws of Life. We also learned that a fire truck can hold 35,000 pounds of water in 1 fire truck. We also got to wear a fire man coat it was heavy. It can stand 300 and something of fire with out burning you for 30 minutes. The Jaws of Life is a tool that pries open a car door or a car roof. When we put on the coats it felt like it weighed 5 pounds and it was hot wearing it. They had ladders/axes/water hoses.

This week we were doing math with base 10 blocks and hundred blocks and 1 blocks. We used them to help us add numbers.  They helped us see that we are adding 2 hundreds instead of 2, or 3 tens instead of 3.  We are now doing 3 numbers like 20 +70+ 91=181. It's kinda hard kinda easy it's challenging. 

IPads

This week we started using IPADs. We got to play a fun math game. We have different ranks on the math game. That's what makes it fun and challenging. The problems are kinda easy and hard. Its fun because it's our first time playing iPads.  The good thing is its math too, so at least we are learning more math. We only play the math game when we are done with our work or extra work. We do it sometimes  when we are in interventions with Mrs. Condron. We can only play the math games on the iPad with permission from Mrs. Condron. If Mrs. Condron sees us going to different games or websites or YouTube we will get in trouble big-time. You have to follow the rules to the iPads or you won't get to play on the iPads.  Our whole class gets to play on the iPads so it's fair. We try our best to not get in trouble on the iPads. We also play iPads for free time. We have to hold the iPads with two hands. We get to use them for writing to fix are words. We need to respect the iPads. 

Spirit Day

On Spirit Day, we wore our Eagle shirt or wore red and black. We went to a parade at the school. At this fine homecoming parade, we saw a lot of floats. We saw cheerleaders and volleyball and football players and softball players and soccer players.

Hawaiian Day

On Hawaiian Day, we took pictures of our class funny and serious. We all tried to find costumes that fit in with Hawaiian Day.

Math

My view this morning during math . . . working hard on finding the value of a variable . . . Yes, algebra!!!!

Mizzou Day!

I forgot to take a Spirit Week picture yesterda, but here is today's picture.  Today is Mizzou Day!  M-I-Z . ..E-A-G . . . Of course, we have to have a silly picture as well :)

Chapter 1 Social Studies Test

Chapter 1 Social Studies Test

Salute

Salute is a fun and silly math game that we play. Students are divided into groups of three using fair sticks. The cards are dealt to only two players. Each of those two players place a card on their forehead facing the other two players (not looking at their own card). The third player tells the sum of the two cards. Each of the players with cards have to guess what number they have on their forehead. This is great practice for addition facts. It is also a little introduction into algebra because they are figuring out a variable. This game can be adapted for subtraction and multiplication. All it takes is a deck of cards.

Spelling Practice

Both Bloggers are sick this week so Mrs. Condron is going to take over. Thank you for all of your hard with studying spelling words with your student. I wanted to share what we do in class to practice spelling words. We practice spelling 15 minutes each day. Sometimes we quiz each other over our words using dry erase boards. Sometimes we practice our spelling words with partners using spelling games such as tic tac toe (spelling style), hangman, sign language, and spell words on a partner's back. One day we work on our spelling words by ourselves using activities like sailboat writing, silly sentences, looking words up in a dictionary, and counting syllables. Ask your student about each of these activities and which is their favorite!!

Learning Garden

Today at the learning garden we dug holes, we made worm houses, we even picked tomatoes.

In the beginning this fun activity we planted lettuce seeds. It was so cold outside (That`s why we`re wearing coats!).  

Small Reading Groups

During small reading groups, we are making predictions about how stories end.  These students are working  hard using the text to back up their predictions.   Good readers back up their thoughts with information from the text.

Decorating our Reading Notebooks

When we decorated our notebooks, we cut out old book order sheets and glued them to our notebooks to show that we like books. This was a fun project we did.

Roll a comparison

This game is called Roll a Comparison.  Here`s how you play, one person rolls the dice and both of you put the three numbers down on the paper, on the bottom

 of the letters you would put them in least to greatest and graeatest to lest order, and then the next time,the other person rolls and then you both again put three  numbers down.This is how we learnd Greatest to Least and Least to Greatest. 

Hundred blocks

During our study of place value last week, we used the base ten blocks to quiz a partner.  One partner used the base ten blocks to create a number, the other partner had to write the number in standard, expanded, and word form.  It was hard work, but good practice.  The test over numeration is this Thursday, Setptember 4th.

Share, share, switch

If you have been to our classroom, you have seen our "Who Am I?" Projects. Students had to write clues about themselves, then draw a picture of themselves (aka #selfies).  To share with the class, I passed out the projects randomly, then put students in two circles, inner and outer where everyone had a partner in the opposite circle, they had to share three clues about the person they had in their hand.  Their partner, then, had to guess who the had.  After each partner had a turn, they switched projects and moved to a new partner.  It was a fun project and great way to get to know one another.  Stop by our classroom to see our "Who Am I's?" Posted!