9.29.14

9.29.14
Math
We have all made so much progress this past week with adding! I am so pleased with the hard work during math. Students are successfully regrouping double digit addition and estimating the sum. We will continue with addition this upcoming week moving onto 3 digit addition and word problems. We have an activity this week where we will be scanning bar codes and adding to see how much it would cost to buy certain items.

ELA
Students have been working hard with word and text training in Language Live. We introduced nouns and verbs and practiced sorting words into categories. We discussed that some words have many meanings. We completed a multiple meaning chart for the word bat. This week we will continue to discuss nouns and verbs. If you would like to check out the word training component of Language Live click on the hyperlink below.
Please do not watch more than 1-2 videos since word training is classwork.

Language Live
User name is your child's first and last name with no spaces in between.
Password for everyone is 103.

Science
We finished up learning about rocks and minerals. We had science lab this past week and conducted tests on minerals to determine the hardness and luster. We also created our own models of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks. The metamorphic rock model will go home this week but sedimentary will stay at school so we can use them during our fossil lesson. This week we will be reading "Diary of a Worm" and learning about the different types and layers of soil.

On Friday to go along with our soil unit we will be making a fun food model of the 4 different layers of soil. We will need indigence for our models and I will be sending home a wish list on Monday of the items that we will need. I greatly appreciate any family who would like to contribute to our soil snacks!
 

9.22.14

 Gardening Day

Gardening Day was a huge success! What an amazing day we had!

 Thank you so much to all the parents that were able to come, 

help and provide soil and mulch for our garden. 

I'm so proud of each student as they 

put so much effort into making today an unforgettable, successful day. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful September break!

 

We started with weeds and dirt!

 

We learned about rocks and minerals.

Everyone helped get the soil ready for planting.

 

I'm thrilled that we got to harvest tomatoes and carrots from last years garden.

Thank you Mrs. Knobbe!

Students painted and wrote our class garden sign.

 

 

 

Students completed a writing assignment about gardening.

 

 Students sequenced the events that would take place for the day.

Students also made signs to label what we planted.

We planted beets, radish, carrots and broccoli in our back garden 

and different types of lettuce in the garden outside our classroom.

 

9.8.14

 

I am very excited to announce that

Gardening Day is Friday!

This year in our classroom garden we will be planting carrots, onions, lettuce, and broccoli. If you would like to come on Friday to plant a row of vegetables with your child you can sign up for one of the time slots below.

 9:00-9:30

10:00-10:30

11:00-11:30

I am also looking for donations to help our garden grow!

If you would like to purchase a bag of potting soil or mulch for our classroom

please email me Kimberly.Kistler@Cobbk12.org. 

 Thank you in advance for your continued support.

Don't Forget - Picture Day is Tuesday

Science

This week as a class we learned about the layers of the earth. We learned hand motions to remember inner core, outer core, mantel and crust. 3rd graders created earth's layers out of Play-Doh and labeled each part. This up coming week we will learn about volcanos, magma, lava and igneous rocks.

3rd graders

Our 4th/5th graders went with Mrs. Stewart's class to the science lab and learned about the different types of clouds. They used shaving cream to create cumulus clouds, cirrus clouds and stratus clouds.

Thank you Mrs. Knobbe for the awesome lesson!

 

ELA

This past week we learned more about adjectives and nouns. In one activity we explored our school to help us describe the places around us.This week we will be identifying if words are nouns, adjectives or verbs.

Math
We are moving onto adding this week! Students will be using touch math this year and they will learn this week where the touch points are and how to use them. Students will be adding one to three-digit numbers with and with-out regrouping.

Homework this week will be sent home in their GATOR notebook.