Third Grade: Day 106

While the rest of the country is covered in a white blanket of snow, we are cold but we have clear blue sunny skies and it’s wonderful! We have all loved the weather we have been having the past few days. However the rainy weather will return on Wednesday for a few days before clearing up again sometime next week.

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This morning we were 27° outside but the sun wasn’t hidden behind mounds of clouds.
What a great way to start your day! I LOVE it when I can actually see and feel the sunshine!

In the classroom:

There is no Bible verse memorization for the next 6 weeks. Isabel will be working hard on learning a piece of literature and she has picked “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. She began today diligently working on learning the first 3 paragraphs, with a total of 13 paragraphs in all. She was doing great today, it’s a long one though and hopefully she can keep her momentum going over the next 6 weeks!

The dictation passage for this week:

“Faith is being sure of what we hope for. It is being certain of what we do not see. That is what the people of long ago were praised for. We have faith. So we understand that everything was made when God commanded it.” – Hebrews 11:1-3

Our new books for next several weeks are:

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“Om-kas-toe” by K. Thomasma

And “If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution” by E. Levy
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We had a huge (informative) lesson about the end of the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of the Confederation, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights! It was a ton of information but we are working on this all week long and I hope that she understands just the basic’s, nothing to deep here.

Isabel asked me later in the afternoon, with a look of worry on her face, “Do I have to memorize the whole Constitution?” Giving her a reassuring hug, and chuckling to myself, “Oh, no Sweetie, I won’t make you do that. Let’s just get the basic understanding of these documents and government.”

Today’s science assignment was from Friday. We were observing and comparing leaves.

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Can you see the “primary vein” and the “secondary vein” in this cotyledon?

I didn’t get the true leave photographed it was so small and by the time Isabel was completed with it there wasn’t anything left. So moving on…

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Isabel trying to do some leaf rubbing with our tiny leaves. She was bummed.

So hard to teach a lesson and learn from the lesson when you have nothing to actually go with the lesson! We did what we could and we move on.

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Not working out to good.
The true leaf was so tiny that we decided not to do it until spring.

We also had to do measuring of growth that we started last week. We also finished up some lessons that we had started last week. Isabel was comparing her predictions to the actual results from the seedlings. We are finishing this radish seedling study on Wednesday, so we are down to our last few assignments before we finish.