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Third Grade: Day 137

Today is our busy day with piano and Lego® class.

When we arrived at piano, Isabel mentioned that it’s been awhile since we’ve had a piano lesson. It does seem like it and it’s great to get back into the routine of school.

This morning after piano lessons…

We stopped to smell the flowers at Ms. G’s house.

So bright and pretty.

Back in the classroom:

Since it’s a busy day we didn’t have a whole lot of classwork to do since I schedule more work on Monday’s and Wednesday’s.

Bible lesson:

Glorious new bodies.

Spelling test:

Great job!
(I wrote the wrong date; a bit ahead of myself)

In Language Arts, Isabel’s assignment was to write a “free verse” poem. A “free verse” is a poem that doesn’t follow any rules, the author is “free” to write about anything in anyway you want to.

Free-verse by Isabel.

Our new science lab work for the the next 5-week’s in going to be about corn and beans. Today’s science assignment was to make a simple scale.

Getting the bucket made for the scale.
This bucket will hold the items to be weighed.

Completed scale.

To test the scale she weighed a paper clip and a mini marshmallow:

paper clip: 780 milligrams
mini marshmallow: 320 milligrams

Next week she’ll begin to weigh seeds and things for her assignments in science class. She’s super excited to begin.

Lego® class was cancelled today due to a family emergency with the teacher. Today’s class will be made-up later next month.

Homeschool Science Class

Today’s class was all about fungi. Tan, brown, white and green fungi. Shaggy, crisp and soft fungi.

The class spent time outside looking for fungi around the center and on the nature trail.

Fungi naming chart.

Fungi character chart.

It was also about “Under the Microscope”

The class also spent some time looking and observing items under microscopes. They were then asked to draw pictures of what they saw during their observations.

Isabel’s observations from under the microscope.

After class we headed to the playground for just a few moments before heading home.

The rock on the playground is a great challenge to climb.

She had some fungi in her pocket she told me and showed me after climbing down.
She said the smell reminded her of arts and crafts supplies but she couldn’t remember what.

However, on the way home she told me she was surprised that I didn’t smell it. When I told her I could do it at home, she said no. She had left the fungi there at the center. I was a bit bummed that I wouldn’t have a chance to smell it but at least I got a picture.