It's hard to believe that we are already a month into this school year already! WOW! Tomorrow is the first day of October already. We're into the full swing of third grade now. Here are a few pictures to show you just a peek at our last few weeks.
Last week we learned all about penguins. We learned that penguins and other animals that live in Antarctica have a layer of blubber on their bodies to keep them warm and to help them survive in the frigid temperatures. To see how blubber works, these girls were randomly selected and volunteered to put on a pair of "blubber gloves." One hand had a "blubber glove" on it and the other was just bare. They had to put their hands in a bucket of icy water to see if they could tell a difference between the two gloves. They found out that the "blubber glove" did in fact keep their hand warmer! Wow was that water cold though! Phew.....
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| Testing out our blubber gloves |
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| Priceless faces! |
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| Our winner! She may in fact be part penguin! Wow, her hands were in the water a long time! |
As part of our Morning Meeting activity, the students truly learned the meaning of our vocabulary word, shuffle! They had to put an egg on their feet like a penguin and shuffle their feet to a partner without dropping the egg! Wow, this was tough!
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| shuffle, shuffle, shuffle! |
In addition to studying penguins last week, the students had a chance to make their {FIRST} Snazzy Snack called Perfect Pencils. They had to write a recipe in their neatest printing (cursive after we learn all the letters), follow the directions in the recipe, and count up or measure the ingredients. We enjoyed the pencil snack WRITE away! :)
In math the students are learning about input, output tables or function machines. In an effort to help the students see and understand the process, we had a chance to act it out. A student put a number into the machine, the machine twisted and turned that number all around and spit another number out through the output. We then had to determine what the machine "did" to the number (for example, add 23, subtract 18, etc.) Our machine even has a "real" on and off switch!
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| Testing out our Function Machine! |
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| Putting a number into the "input". |
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| Getting a number back out from the "output". Now we determine what the function (or operation) was. |
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Thanks for stopping by to check out our learning! Have a fantastic first week of October!
