3B did a wonderful job with the prayer this week and Claudia read the Bible verse =)
The students enjoyed a variety of hands on math activities this week. They were challenged to create a variety of polygons on geoboards, making triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons and octagons. We listened to a story about a grandfather who tells his grandchild tales and makes animals out of tangrams to go with the story. The students were challenged to make the tangram animals along with the grandfather, then worked together in teams to make a scene of the 2 people and a tree.
We were fortunate this week to have Ms. Kern draw our attention to some geese outside who were protecting their nest from a turtle and some crows. The battle was intense and very exciting to watch! We were had to leave for specials classes, but were lucky enough to see the turtle return again another time! What a wonderful learning opportunity we have just outside the windows of our school =)
This week we had a chance to bring the 3rd grade girls together for a class meeting and they enjoyed getting to share and work together to come up with new things to do at recess. I had a great time hearing the girls share their concerns and stories, and was happy to offer suggestions and see them follow through with positive results. After our discussion, we had an activity where students hid objects behind their backs and worked together to pass them to one another while the person in the middle tried to guess who had the objects.