Miss Ali's Third Grade Geckos

 We certainly have been busy! Here is a sneak peak into what we did at school last week! We played "Simon Says" at the Crowell Lot after we got our pictures taken. We have gotten used to using the outdoor classroom as a work space. Here the students are writing more poetry, which came out beautifully. This is an example of our science lesson. We started the topic of "Force and Motion". Through "Mystery Science" we discussed how you could use force to win a game of "tug of war" against a bunch of grown ups and how you could smash a watermelon using only rubber bands. Ask the kids about that one, they thought it was awesome!! The experiment we did with this lesson was to make "hopper poppers". We constructed them ourselves and discussed how force made them work.  These last pictures are of the garden. We learned about basil and lemon balm. We got to harvest it and made pesto! We sampled it with crackers and most kids LOVED it. Ask your st

All is going well in THIRD Grade! So far we are just continuing to get to know each other, as well as the rules and routines of the classroom. We are doing everything we can to be safe with one another, respectful of people's feelings and responsible for ourselves. One good thing to come out of all these changes is the small amount of students we have, and our new awareness of getting outside. Here are some of the activities that we did this week! We learned about the power of YET! You can become better at things, smarter, stronger, if you don't give up and say things to yourself like "I can't do this, YET!", "I will KEEP TRYING!", "I CAN DO THIS!". Students wrote about things they couldn't do yet, but would like to keep working at. We did an outdoor scavenger hunt to find things in nature and work as a team! We played a "get to know you" game by asking our partner questions like, "If you were stranded on a desert island, wha

 Oh my gosh, we had such a fun few days together. Here are some snapshots of us playing and learning.  Here are some poems the kids wrote, based on a book we read entitled “The Important Book” by Margaret  Wise Brown. The poems are called “The Important Thing About Me”. See if you can find your child’s.