Identifying Habitats

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The students investigated the ground around our school in search of habitats. They located many included spider webs, nests, a wasp nest, and many located under rocks and woodchips. Soon the students will be creating their own habitat and observing changes in living things.

Happy Reading!

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We have lots of opportunities to read in room 3. We might read by ourselves or with a buddy. We are always practicing our comprehension strategies or fluency.

Our First Week

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Check out photos from our first week together. It was exciting to make new friends and learn about some of our new learning adventures we will experience.

Mystery Genre

We began learning about a new genre in class, mysteries. The students are learning how to take notes of the clues, suspects, and events to solve a crime or prank in our newest genre study. Many of the students have never read a mystery before. Some students are choosing new mystery titles to read on their own.

Amelia Bedelia Fashion Show

What would Amelia Bedelia think sunglasses are? Well, glasses with suns right on them! The students were very creative designing outfits that only Amelia Bedelia understands. Our event continued in our classroom for some refreshments because we know that is what Amelia Bedelia was best at...cooking!

South Elgin HS Band!

We had a rockin' visit from the South Elgin High School band! The students were inspired by their performance and many are asking when they can take band. Lucky for our students they can start in fifth grade and have lessons at school!

Learning About Air

The students are learning about air and how the wind effects the weather by moving clouds and changing temperatures. They created a weather vane and observed how an anemometer works. They also played with bubbles to observe how the wind moved them and they could not control the direction that they blew in. Soon the students will take all they have learned to become meteorologists and report on the weather keeping a journal over two weeks. After the two weeks they will analyze the data to see how consistent or changing the weather was during that time.