The Days of Our (Third Grade) Lives

In Art with Ms. Krakowski, the Third Graders looked at Wassily Kandinsky's color studies as an inspiration to create their own abstracted corn, as well as explore primary and secondary color.  The students created a checkerboard pattern throughout the corn cob, alternating squares of primary and secondary color, while experimenting with Kandinsky's circle pattern.

The Third Graders wrote acrostic poems to celebrate a new season.  They brainstormed a list of fall ideas.  Each student chose one idea as a focus for his or her acrostic poem.  Students wrote their final drafts in their best handwriting on a pumpkin and then decorated it for our "Pumpkin Patch of Poetry."  These are some great pumpkins!

We hope everyone enjoyed visiting Grade Three tonight for Curriculum Night!  It was a pleasure to talk to you and share our daily routine.  As promised, here is the Grade Three video of our first few weeks of school.  Enjoy!

Grade Three has been working to solve the Science Mystery, "Why do plants give us fruit?"  We learned that anything that has seeds on the inside is a "science fruit" even if a grocer or chef would call it a vegetable.  As a culminating activity, students dug into some common foods to discover if they were a "science fruit" or "science vegetable."  They determined that tomatoes and cucumbers are "science fruits," and radishes, potatoes, and celery stalks are "science vegetables."  "Dig" these pictures!

Students had fun working in cooperative groups today to practice skills in ELA.  They alphabetized words, read a paired realistic fiction book with a partner, and played the "Canyon Game" to learn about guide words.  Check out our pictures from Picture Day!

Each year, Grade Three participates in a letter writing project.  Students write a friendly letter to anyone in the world.  They write to family members, friends, athletes, singers, authors, and many more. One of last year's Third Graders wrote to her favorite video game designer, Scott Cawthon, creator of "Five Nights at Freddy's."  Today, a large envelope came addressed to her as a thank you for her fan letter.  He autographed a t-shirt and several "Five Nights at Freddy's" toys for her!  What a special way to learn about the power of the written word!  Have you written a letter to someone recently???