Category: School News

All things related to school days.

Library Trip

Our weekly library trip was a short one. I ran in got my books and ran back out in under 5 minutes, while Gino and Isabel waited for me. We had errands to run and didn’t have time to dwell among the shelves this week.

I got some good ones (least I’m hoping they are) with books from around the time frame that we are in; late 1700’s and early 1800’s.

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This book’s illustrations are just beautiful!
I began reading it last night and have enjoyed it.

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I checked out 2 books about the Star-Spangled Banner and I like the other one better (which I didn’t get a picture of).
I completed reading both of these last night.

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I am hoping to read this with Isabel but I will begin reading it myself first.

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I haven’t begun to read this one but it looks very interesting and the activities seem easy enough to do with items we already have.

 

Third Grade: Day 138

It’s a good day to get some work done.

In the classroom:

In Language arts, Isabel’s assignment was to write a “limerick”. A limerick is a 5-lined rhyming poem with a pattern. Such as a-a-b-b-a. The first, second, and fifth lines rhyme and the third and four lines rhyme.

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Isabel’s limerick poem.

One of our new books for this week is…

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We started it on Monday and finished it today. It was very short and I figured we might as well complete it to move on.

Spelling test:

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Great job!

In science we are getting our supplies assembled for our lessons next week.

Today’s assignment; make a pole planter and a soaking bin.

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Getting the soaking bin started.

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Her completed soaking bin.

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Writing the numbers on her bean pole.

How tall will her corn and beans grow??

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Her completed bean pole.
(the battery is to keep the cup from falling over)

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…

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

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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:

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Glorious new bodies.

Spelling test:

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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.

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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.

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

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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.