Pumpkin Cards

How to Make Pumpkin Cards

Students taught what they learned to someone else.

1. Using a pencil and draw a pumpkin on a piece of styrofoam (6 x 5)
2. Mix fall colors (Red, Orange, Yellow, and Brown) 
3. Paint the colors on the print.
4. Place pumpkin design on a folded paper (card)
5. Pull your print.
6. When prints are dried, be creative and make a card.
7. Student's will create a pumpkin Cinquain Poem using Cinquain Poem Outline
8. Do you need practice finding an adjective? Parts Of Speech Practice

Show What You Know

Check your understanding

Place Value:

• Tens and Ones ~ Write the missing numbers.

• Regroup Tens as Hundreds ~ Write the missing numbers.

• Regroup Hundreds as Tens ~ Write the missing number.

 Go Math!

Collections

My Collection

Students have been bringing in their cherished collections to share with classmates.

How Are Fossils Formed?

Students read how fossils are formed.Then did a QUICK LAB: Imprint Clues  Look at the imprint models that your classmates made. Try to figure out which objects they used. Fossils for Kids

Fossils and Fuels

Once there was a big brown dog . . .

• “Once there was a big brown dog…” Students wrote in their folder. They continued the story for about a minute.
• Then students passed their papers to a writing partner. The writing partner added a few more sentences to the new story.
• Finally the original author reclaimed their story.
• Some stories took place in the jungle, another involved a helicopter, and several included numerous adventures.

Silly Animal Problems

Student's heard the story as a read aloud. Dog Breath involves a family's misery over their dog. Can you think of another animal that might experience a bad case of an ordinary problem?
Then use the Silly Animal Problems: Pre-Writing Sheet to start your writing assignment. If your struggling to get started try the interactive site Interactive Choices

From the author: Hally Tosis, is a very good family dog with a very big problem: bad breath! Her breath is so bad, even skunks avoid her! Mr. and Mrs. Tosis are at their wits end, and plan to give Hally away. But the Tosis children love their dog, and search for a breathtaking miracle cure! Very silly, and very fun! ... Just be thankful it's not a scratch-n-sniff book!

He had a huge problem. Hear the story by Nascar Driver

(Six Trait Writing) Focus Trait: Idea Development; Support Trait: Organization  © http://writingfix.com/

Scratch Test

Students investigate the hardness of minerals. They used paper clips, pennies, and their fingernail.
They selected four minerals.
Drew the specimens by adding detail.
Then checked for hardness.
Finally placed the minerals in order of hardness.

Investigation of Mock Rocks

• Students observed and described the physical properties of mock rocks. 

• They noticed that rocks can be broken down into different ingredients called minerals.

• Students used a nail as a geologist pick to take a mock rock apart.

• They classified the materials into categories like  shells, small rocks, and sand. 

• Several students discovered glass, seaweed, and wood. 

Locate Seven Continents

Locate and label our seven continents. You will need to make a map key. Sometimes it helps to have a working partner.

Rock Hounds

Rocks and Minerals Student's Examined their rocks.
First they Predicted
Length, Mass,
Which will scratch your rock [Penny, nail, finger-nail, none]
Will vinegar make it bubble?
Will it Float?
Then they checked their predictions.

Partner Work

Partner's help each other! Students used a story map to record the first story from our reading series.
Then used notes to retell the story to each other.
Setting:
Characters:
Problem:
Plot/Events:
Resolution:

Mathematics

Student's are practicing their subtraction facts. They are strengthening their math skills and comparing numbers. Before long these challenging math facts will be part of  his or her mathematical skill set.

Writing Process - Reread and Revise

Students created a story using a beginning, middle 1, middle2,  and ending. Rereading and rethinking gives you a closer examination in the text.

Writing Process - Peer Editing

Peer Editing - Classmates share their rough drafts and make suggestions to each other for improvement.

Mathematics Section

Kid's Place ~ Pick Your Grade  Welcome to our Mathematics Section. Math Expressions is a new math curriculum by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It offers new ways to teach and learn mathematics. Math Expressions uses objects, drawings, conceptual language, and real-world situations to help students build mathematical ideas that make sense to them.

Students represent 3-digit numbers with drawings that show hundreds, tens, and ones. To start, students make drawings on the dot arrays on their MathBoards. They show ones by circling individual dots, tens by drawing lines through groups of ten dots, and hundreds by drawing squares around groups of 100 dots. Math Expressions uses the terms ones, ten-sticks, and hundred-boxes to describe the three representations.

Compare and Contrast

 Student's completed a Venn Diagram to compare themselves with a friend. How are you alike? How are you different? Then they used the information to write a paragraph about their friend.
Do you need an organizer?  Try using a Venn Diagram

Grandparent's Day

Grandparents of R. J. Elementary were invited to join their grandchildren for lunch on Grandparent's Day (September 9, 2011). Third grade lunch period is from 11:40-12:20. First lunch recess and then lunch.

Texts in Our Classroom

Science Textbook by McGraw-Hill
 Math Expressions
 Reading Textbook by Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt