Science Experiments

Your little scientist may ask you for a cup and some vanilla extract. They loved this simple matter experiment!!

Thanks to Mrs. Davenport's creative thinking, all third graders visited Dr. Looney's Laboratory where they felt inside a box to see if it was a solid, liquid, or if nothing was there but a smell , then a gas. 

Grammar fun and arrays around the room

Students  worked on editing sentences and identifying the common and proper nouns.

I spy arrays! 

Weather Scavenger Hunt

On Thursday, students were introduced to their new at home weather scavenger hunt to kick off our science unit. Third graders are working in teams to complete the scavenger hunt. Each student is assigned to items that they are responsible for collecting. They can be creative and make it, bring in pictures from magazines, or even neatly draw the pictures themselves. Students will be graded on effort, neatness, participation, and teamwork. In class the groups will have many opportunities to meet and discuss what they have and what they still need . This at home weather scavenger hunt is due on Thursday, October 23rd. 

New additions to the bulletin board

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Each third grade class created a fall craft for the bulletin board outside Mrs. Davenport's classoom. We created the scarecrows! So cute!! 

I lead a very interesting life according to these third graders. Very creative! 

Batty about addition and subtraction. 

Fun, Free, Book Website

Today I showed the students this website called http://www.storylineonline.net/. 

It is a free website that has about 25-30 books read by famous people! This type of reading can count towards their nightly goal of 20 minutes. Keep in mind that when you read to your child or your child reads to you, it counts towards the 20 minutes as well.

Have fun! Enjoy!  

Scholastic News

Common Core has third graders reading informational texts 50% of time and the other 50% of the time is fiction. A fun way to incorporate informational text reading in the classroom is through the magazine Scholastic News. Students read the articles with their EEKK partners and then completed a little cause and effect activity. We topped off our reading season with a game. 

Weekly multiplication quizzes

Each week we learn a new multiplication fact following Mahesh Sharma. We've leaned the 0's, 1's, and 10's. I wanted to remind families that if a student does not pass a table, they will not move on until they pass . So, for example, if a student did not pass the 10's table on Friday, they will not study the 5's table this week until they pass the 10's. It's still important for students to continue practicing subtraction and addition facts! Thank you for your continued support! 

DonorsChoose

Yay! We received our first donation for our iPad project on DonorsChoose!
Please feel free to share our project with co-workers, friends, and family!

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Fun Free Math Apps

I have come across two free math apps that can make working on facts fun!

The first one is called Math Zombies. It has addition, subtraction, multiplication, and if I recall correctly, division. If you answer the math problem correctly you zap the zombies back to humans.

The other free app is called Sushi Monster. This app has addition and multiplication. This one is a bit more challenging for in the addition version it gives you the sum and you have to feed the monster the correct addends. 

Newmarket mapping and phonics work

We had lots of fun "driving" to bordering towns of Newmarket and figuring out if we were going North, South, West, or East. 

Students were on a roll coming up with words that fit into this weeks phonics pattern! 

A little Lamprey River Newmarket History