Rock Researching

The students are learning that rock is an earth material and a natural resource. In the pictures the students are investigating the properties of a river rock mixture. They are using screens to sort the mixture into pebbles, gravel, and sand. They will learn later that the smallest particle is silt which can be used to make clay.

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Our winter party was so much fun! The students enjoyed the Polar Express morning. They arrived in pajamas and boarded the classroom train for a morning of reading, math, and writing all about The Polar Express. In the afternoon the students enjoyed hot cocoa, the snowball game, snowball fight, crafts, and the snowman dress up contest. It was a wonderful celebration.

Ready, Set, Action!

We love to act in our classroom. Each week a new group is learning a play and practicing to use their most expressive voices. It is performed for the rest of the class to enjoy.

Working and Decorating

We are getting ready for the holiday season by decorating. The students wrote a book report where each part was a piece for a garland strand. The students hung the book report garland around the room and made our room look very festive.

Data Collecting

It was data collecting week in room three and we had a lot of fun creating surveys, collecting data, and creating graphs to show our results. Mrs. Partyka's data collecting included tasting different kinds of popcorn. Our class liked cheese the best but we were surprised how many liked vanilla caramel too! It was a fun way to work with data collecting!

Learning About Owls

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We learned a lot about owls! We read many books and compared two different kinds of owls as part of our research. The best part was taking apart an owl pellet and sorting the bones. We were able to learn what the owl ate by matching the bones to a bone chart showing different animals owl eat.

Writing With Pictographs

We have been studying what life was like for the Native Americans and the Pilgrims. We learned that the Native Americans created stories using pictographs. We created our own using both words and pictures and put them on large pieces of paper. It was fun to take a museum walk and read all the stories our fellow classmates wrote.