News and Info for Mr. M's Third Grade Class
I hope you enjoy your extended weekend. Make a snowman,
read a book with a friend,
or do a dance.
Whatever you do, have fun and be good! I know I am going to enjoy my day tomorrow with my little girl.I will see you all on Monday!
For Parents: I just want to take a moment and thank [...]
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Just a reminder that our test on plants will be tomorrow. We will be able to use our books and guides. We should be pretty practiced, but it would not hurt to read over some of the vocabulary again tonight.
Great work on your play performances today! I was really impressed by how well each of [...]
Just a reminder about our Valentine’s Day Party at 2:00 on Friday. Please be sure to have a mailbox and your Valentines all set to go. I know mine will be. All parents are welcomed to attend.
You will notice that there is not a lot of work on our planner below.The reason for this is [...]
We will behaving an open book science test tomorrow on forces and motion. We will also be having a reading test. Below is our book for the week (Coyote Places the Stars), feel free to read along.
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As we were walking between buildings yesterday, I heard behind me one of [...]
Today in science we conducted a little experiment about how much energy in Newtons it takes to lift different amounts of matter. We practiced hypothesizing, recording data, and making inferences based on the numbers and our experiences with this experiment. Here is a shore video of some of the activity:
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Today was our last day to learn from our Science in Residence scientists from UW-Oshkosh. Today was spent in a large group in the gym learning about chromatography, cleaning pennies with different materials, the Stroop Effect, modeling our solar system, and determining acids and bases by their tastes. Here is about a 12 minute video [...]
On our second day of working with the students from the UW Oshkosh science department we made scale models of the planets in our solar system using Play Dough. After this we were able to conduct a science experiment that helped us determine the sizes of craters from different sizes of meteors and different speeds [...]
Today, with our scientists, we explored how meteors make their mark and made scale models of the planets.
Here is a movie for you to download. I will try to get it in flash soon and add it to the movies section.
Here is the work for the day.
There has been some discussion around education recently about math. There is the “New” math and the “Old” math. The new method of math focuses on constructing the concepts, while the old method is more memorization based. My math is a blend of the two. While memorization and repetition definitely has it’s place in my [...]
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