Animal and Plant Cells

Let me just say that I LOVE THE SCIENCE PROJECTS!  I do have some very hard workers.  In the past we have made the cells in class and I am glad I did that differently this year!  Our third graders were much more creative then I was!

I am going to post all projects here, or at least try!  There are 48 since I am including both science classes.  Please let me know if your child does not see his or her project.  I will post almost half of them tonight, and the other half when they are graded.  I would like to have them hanging for Parent-Teacher Conferences; however, they may not be very visible since the book fair sets up right in front of where we hang our work...bummer!

See....I told you they were good!  (Sorry, for the delay...it was taking longer to get these uploaded!)
Check back later for the rest!
Great job C.M. and L.G. for earning their Book It Award!

Book It Awards!

Congratulations to these little darlings for earning their BOOK-IT AWARD already!

B.N., K.S., S.M., Z.J.!! 

This month students only need to earn 10 RC points to earn their slip!

Happy READING!

Check back tomorrow...I hope to post a few pictures of the Science Projects...I LOVED THEM! 

Spelling Words for the Week

Check out your spelling list for the week.  Just look for your spelling team's name to see the list of words for the week.  Can you figure out how your list can be sorted?  (BTW, each team chose their team name!)

Pink Panthers

box, rode, road, chose, boat, goat, soap, knock, slop, foam, load, whole, goal, stop, coat, float, drop, stone

Word Nerds

might, quick, why, white, high, twice, quite, bright, sky, quit, flight, fly, sight, fine, try, write, shy, right

Flaming Skeletons

watch, small, thought, walk, salt, bought, wand, talk, stalk, bald, wasp, fought, swap, chalk, swat, brought, cough, also

Spelling Maniacs

setting, hiking, reading, floating, cutting, moving, stopping, living, spelling, coming, adding, grinning, having, feeling, jogging, taking, talking, working

Motorcycle Monsters

athlete, pilgrim, create, complete, children, poet, duet, pumpkin, monster, mushroom, kitchen, trial, poem, hundred, giant, lion, kingdom, inspect

Spectacular Spellers

shock, chicken, magic, relax, quick, traffic, complex, topic, picnic, attack, buckle, index, frantic, ticket, hammock, plastic, perplex, nickel

Our spelling test will be Friday. Check out http://www.spellingcity.com/ I think students can enter spelling lists here, take practice tests, and play games to reinforce their spelling.  (If you would use this site, let me know.  I think I can create a page for our class where students can access their spelling list without having to enter the words.)

Happy Spelling!

Great Weekend!

Happy Birthday, C.M on Saturday!

Have a great LOOOONG weekend!  Enjoy this fabulous fall weather!

A Rounding Fairy Tale

Today, I introduced rounding numbers.  We will be working on a short unit about rounding numbers to the nearest tens, hundreds, or thousands place, then adding or subtracting them.  This can be simple for numbers like 14 and 48, but when we get to round 1,425 to the nearest tens place, I usually encounter some confusion.  I recently discovered Fairy Tale Rounding which has a fun story, and will hopefully help students remember the steps.  A paper will come home describing the steps, but I did find this youtube video that explains it.  They will not have homework tonight for this, but I thought you might find it helpful when working with your child at home in the future! 

 (Hopefully this works, I am a newbie at embedding a video into a blog post!  See, I am like the kids...still learning!)

Keep practicing those math facts and enjoy the weather!

Happy Birthday, M.C!

Vincent VanGogh Art

Monday is our day for Art!  Yesterday students were shown samples of Vincent VanGogh's famous Sunflowers Painting, then they could recreate their own with oil pastels.  Here are several that were completed and hung up.  I am posting all of them that are finished.  Hopefully, your child can find their masterpeice!

A paper also went home tonight explaining the upcoming Science Project.  Students are required to make a diagram of a plant cell and an animal cell using various arts/craft supplies.  Projects are due October 12th. 

Have a good night!

Third Grade Smarties

I missed all your children today!  I was home...again...taking care of my son, Matthew.  Apparently, it was his turn to be sick!  I will be back tomorrow and glad to see everyone!  I am ecstatic to see that the 'Pageviews' number is rising...yeah...you are checking out the blog!  I hope you are enjoying it.  I will be adding spelling lists on the side this week.  As much as we work on it, I know some lists still get left behind...and let's face it...I don't want any excuses for not being able to study for a spelling test!  Those poor kiddos, now you can check their homework and spelling...they are in trouble!  Let me know if you have any other sugggestions for what you would like to see here.  Coming up this week, I will have a post with a youtube video to help students with rounding numbers, that is if I can figure out how to do that!  Students will also get a Science project to complete at home over the next week.  Information about this will go home tomorrow and the project is expected to be done completely at home.

Remember, Book It Reading started this month.  Kids need to get 10 RC points to get their pizza certificate.  I wish I could earn a Book It Pizza.  I loved this when I was in school!

Have a good night...enjoy this weather!

Happy Birthday to P.J!  Hope you had a good birthday over the weekend!