Students conducted hands-on examinations of rocks as part of their geology work. Students solved rock riddles that I created. A student created edible acorn treats to celebrate our current book, "Flora and Ulysses!" Last week we celebrated a student's birthday with a cake so spectacular that students requested a photo be placed on the blog--here it is, for all to enjoy! Thank you, students and parents, for sharing your treats with us!
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Students created character riddles based on Flora and Ulysses--can the writing convey who is speaking? The answers are hidden under sticky notes. We traveled to Triple C Camp for a day of team-building fun! One student said: "I'm not climbing 35 feet if you're not doing it . . . "
He then successfully climbed -- so I surprised myself and made it, too! Students created stem and leaf plots, then used them to find mean, median, mode, range. A parent generously surprised us with elegant tea bread in 4 different flavors! *Thank you!* Students engaged in morning meeting games--this homemade one linked with statistic unit vocabulary. (Ask your child about playing "Math Bang!") Students created homophone riddles in their word study journals. Students used graham crackers and frosting in science, to demonstrate plate tectonic movements (convergent, divergent, transform / sliding).
Students took a Multiple Intelligence inventory and graphed their results; they traced their silhouette against a whiteboard, using a projector; then they wrote around the perimeter of their silhouette, using words from a list associated with those learning styles. Results below! Inspiration from panickedteacherblogspot.com. Students created edible layers of the Earth -- graham cracker crust, pudding mantle, jello outer core, hot cinnamon candy inner core. (I wanted atomic fireballs for inner core, but I couldn't find 'em in time!) This lesson was adapted from one I found online, "Layers of the Earth -- A Masterpiece!" 3rdgradesciencelessons google site. Outdoor math -- students timed self-generated tasks for 1 minute, then used collective data for statistics problem solving. |
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AuthorMs. McGill is a public school librarian at Stony Point Elementary. She has previously taught all subjects in 4th & 5th grades, and creative nonfiction at UVa's Young Writers Workshop for nine summers. Categories |