This week we finished our book reports and turned them in. Everybody's book report presentation was amazing. These are some famous people students did their presentations on: Amelia Earhart, Claude Monet, Louis Armstrong, and the great Harry Houdini. Many students included interesting elements which made their presentation more fun such as videos, handouts, props/clothing, and drama. Everyone's presentation was unique.
In the Library Media Center we are starting a biography PhotoStory. What we do is record ourselves reading our paragraph and a page from our book. We also add two photos of our famous person as well a picture of ourselves holding the book. We will continue this project and share them when done.
Polygons, angles, triangles! This week our class has been learning about geometry. First, we studied polygons. Polygons are closed figures with straight sides. If they are curved or open, they are not polygons. Second, we learned about angles. There are three different kinds: acute, right, and obtuse. An acute angle is smaller than 90 degrees. A right angle makes a perfect square corner. An obtuse angle is greater than 90 degrees. Third, triangles have three sides and three vertices. There are six different ways to name triangles: equilateral, isosceles, scalene, acute, right, and obtuse. There's more to come!
On the 22nd of April, we had a new mission: to learn about patterns in the sky! For this science topic, we would need to learn about seasons and how the Earth rotates and revolves. First of all, we would need an Astronomer's Notebook. This would be used to write the words we would need for this topic. Also, we conducted an experiment on shadows. At different time periods of the day, we would trace a basketball hoop's shadow with chalk. Even though our shadow experiment is done, there's much more to discover about space!
Our class has been fitness testing in P.E. So far, we were assessed on the pacer, curl-ups, and the horizontal ladder. Some children did the step-up test, but not all of us did. We will also do pole climb, sit-ups, parallel bars, hula-hoops, and jump rope. Third grade is ready for the rest of our fitness assessments!
This week we had some bad news that our dearest friend, Hallie, is moving to a new town. Our class is very sad about this. Now we have some good news that our friend, Nevaeh, is back. Ryan had a science experiment about moon craters and he demonstrated it by dropping household items into flour. Allison and Julia passed their multiplication and division timed tests. We hope you enjoyed hearing about our week.