5 Minute Science Experiments: Density

Why did one egg sink to the bottom of one cup of water while the egg in the other cup floated? Drum roll please..... It's all because of density! The egg in freshwater sank to the bottom because an egg has a higher density than freshwater. However, an egg has a lower density than saltwater, so it stayed afloat!

March Bulletin

In need of some flowers after all this rain with some fraction flowers!

Poetry Anthology Samples

In creating their poetry anthologies, students created some amazing pieces of work! It was so much fun to see what poems from other authors students chose to write and to read their own creations. Loved it! Thank you Beth Newingham from Scholastic for sharing the idea!

Valentine's Day Party

Some pictures from our class party!

Alliteration Leaves

We practiced alliteration by creating a phrase using our student numbers, so my student who is number 2 in our room might write "two tiny twigs twirling around". These were written on leaf cut outs that became a poetic number line outside our classroom. I loved seeing what these creative kids came up with!

Fraction Fun

This month, we are learning all about fractions. We had so much fun on our visit to CiCi's Pizza, where we enjoyed making AND eating our pizza! We talked about dividing a whole into equal shares and what we would do if, for example, 7 people wanted to share 8 pizzas equally. (Each person would get 1 1/8.) Thank you CiCi's for such a wonderful time... You were so generous to us!

I also enjoyed making fraction flowers (found on Pinterest, of course), where the students divided 3 circles into halves, fourths, and eighths to make leaves, tulips, and sunflowers. So cute!

Other games I like to play with my small groups to practice fractions include "I have... Who has..." with fractions in number and picture form and "Order Them!" where I lay out unit fractions for students to order least to greatest or greatest to least on a number line of 0-1. This game is ideally played first with fractions in picture form and then in numerical form. It can also be played for written fractions for students to practice reading fraction names.

Since fractions are a harder concept, particularly for third graders, I love hearing about other ideas!!!! Thanks for stopping by!

February Bulletin

In preparation for our Poetry Cafe, and to share in the spirit of Valentine's Day, we made "poetrees". Our students wrote similes and metaphors on hearts and these formed the leaves on the trees. The title is "Check Out"..... "Our Poetrees".