Bird Day!

Tuesday was bird day! We learned a lot about birds. We played bird Jeopardy and it was awesome.

This is a picture of Aaron and Venetia. Venetia is measuring Aaron's wingspan.

This is me timing James's flapping rate. 

This is me with condor 19. They are very rare! 

This is Sasha looking up information for her bird field guide.

We looked at a skeleton and a bird's nest to study birds.

-Jules

We put oil on a little bird and then a water drop. We blew it around and it showed that bird wings are waterproof. 

It was funny how everyone was always trying to hear their birds sounds in this huge book!-Pati

We wanted to find

some birds but we didn't find any.

We looked for pine cones to make bird feeders.

We made bird feeders to help the birds eat some seeds this winter.

This week

This week we started bookclubs. They are very fun. We all picked books to read and are reading together and talking about the books.

Luke C. taught us   about fish and their eggs.We dissected a fish.

our class made timelines of a made up or real character. we had to make the time on clocks and write the length that it was for each time.

Who Really Discovered America?

Who Really Discovered America? Part 4!

Who Really Discovered America?

Who Really Discovered America: Part 3!

Who Really Discovered America?

Who Really Discovered America: Part 2!

Who Really Discovered America?

Who Really Discovered America: Part 1!

The rat party!

We had a very fun rat party for the rats[because it was their birthday]. we had fun snacks and we watched ratatouille!

Happy Election Day!

In honor of election day, we had an interesting discussion this morning about whether kids should have the right to vote. Here's what some 3Y students have to say: 

A great trip!

We had a fantastic (if chilly!) trip to Jamestown this weekend. We climbed aboard a replica of the Susan Constance, the ship that crossed the Atlantic to reach Jamestown.

 We tried our hand at being resourceful in a Powhatan home - making fire, grinding sunflower seeds, and removing fiber from a yucca leaf.

 We learned about how Powhatan Indians made fire to cook and keep warm. 

And how they used fire to hollow out large trees for canoes! 

 We got to try scraping the fur from a deer hide. 

And were greeted by musketeers at the gates to the Jamestown fort!

(Oh...and after a long hiatus...we are thrilled to have our rugs and pillows back in our classroom!!)

Short week!

We researched animals for the invertebrate field guide and I researched a cicada and Loick did an earthworm we learned a new way to do multiplacation!

Reading outside!

The weather has been so beautiful! We loved reading outside at the Rock.

Winn Dixie!

Our party was so much fun! 

We are Littmus Lozenges... 

...and pickles and egg salad (just like in the book!)  

There were soooo many pictures of dogs and stuffed dogs, too. 

We loved watching the movie with our dogs!

science

We compeared cleaning sponge with real sponges from nature-cole

We made clam models -Venetia

I  made a animal playground for invertebrates in my science notebook! - Sasha

We looked for invertebrates in the woods.

We found some ants and a spider.

We looked in the creek to find cray cray the crayfish. We found some centipedes and worms!

clam dissection

On October  2nd we were disecting clams

it was really cool yet disgusting. Yuck!

it was amasing how many organs these little guys have.

loick's work

this morning loick was rat keeper,he did a lot of work to straighten up there cage but the rat s destroyed it!!

It was a great week!

this week miss young made new bookbins made of cereal boxes for us.-pati 

On tuesday we wrote storys about pictures with a starter sentence. - Jules 

 this week we went to the art museum .-ella

We got to write in the art museum for writers eye. - Venetia

some of us wrote a story or poem of a piece of artwork and we will enter it in a contest called writers eye. - Lucas

we collected leaves to identify the leaves for our field guide-heming

The Last Day of Summer!

This week we classified animals like Linnaeus did. -Sasha

this week we also got covers for our keyboards in technology. -Ella

This week we got to look at the violin and cello in my second favorite class,music-Jules

This week we got to learn a bunch of diffrent math strategies-pati

This week we made our brains including our fun brains and our school brains for back to school night-Knox

We matched beany babys with real animals Cole

we learned the four things a story needs - Heming

It's Friday!

We have been  learning about vertebrates and invertebrates so we got different kinds of worms and filled out a worksheet about them. That is a picture of the planarian in the microscope.

Also We got to meet 2 UVA volunteers! They helped us in math and played games with us in math.

Sound safari

We went to different places in the school and outside of the school and we listened to things and we wrote them down in our writer's notebook. We did that because Kate Dicamillo and other writers that we read they observed all those things and we want to be great writers like them. (McKenzie)

here are some of the things we heard:

the air vent sounded like a big ghost   -mack.

the pages of our notebooks flutered it sounded like butter fly wings flapping-pati.

feet stomping loudly like ogre feet-ella

a water fountain that sounded like you were listening into a seashell-Lucas

 A heater that sounded like a fast & long intake of breath. -Knox

frogs ribbit  loudly like  a special  gun -loick

Car zooming loudly it reminds me of cars raceing -cole

the air vent sounded like when your in a plane -heming

Music chiming like a bomb going off! - james

The weekend is wrapped up

Today was a crazy day.we read two chapters in because of Winn Dixie. And we adventured to kindergarten         and Ms. Young said it was really eighth grade. It was like Christopher Columbus when he was gonna sail to india and he bumped into America.

Intro to Invertebrates

A note from Ms. Young:

Today the kids tried their hands at classifying invertebrates into specific categories. 

Here are some snippets of conversation that I eavesdropped as kids worked in groups to categorize their animals.

"I think earthworms are annelids!"

"Is a sponge a porifera?"

"Well, a flatworm is a parasite, and planarian is a parasite, so they must be the same."

"A starfish must be an echinoderm because it's kinda spiky."

"You called a sea urchin cute???"

"Squids and octopus are definitely both mollusks."

Wow! It's always a pleasure to listen in on Peabody kids :)

Learning a new math skill

This is a rek-n-rek. We used it today in math. Ms. Young moved some beads to the other side and showed it to us for one or two seconds. Then she hid it. Then we had to tell how many beads there were by remembering. It used addition and multiplication. People had different ways to figure it out.

The End to a Great First Week!

It was fun doing logic puzzles. -Aaron

This week we let the rats out twice!  -Sasha

Today was good. We did logic puzzles. - James


From Ms. Young:
Well, as you can tell, logic puzzles were a big hit! These paper-and-pencil problems teach students how to use a few clues and a grid to logically figure out a complex problem. The kids picked up on them so quickly! And what a great first week we had in 3Y! We wrote our class behavior contract after answering questions such as "how do I want to be treated by my classmates and Ms. Young", we discussed the characteristics of a good classroom learner (someone who is open-minded, a thinker, reflective, caring, and principled) and read some great picture books with characters who displayed each of those traits. We also perfected our classroom procedures, designed our own book marks, and would you believe that 3Y kids have already added 8 books to our list of completed novels? Not bad for our first 5 days together!

Day 2 is Through!

Reading today was super fun we read for twenty minutes. The books were hilarious and we had a amazing time- Lucas

The book I read was the red pyramid. It is a good book. I am almost done! - Jules

Updates from the First Day of School

 

Today was good.     We played blob/shadow tag.   It was fun.

We drew animals that were like us!

We also played four corners .    It was fun !

I really liked paradise. (Paradise is the umbrella.)

I liked doing all our work. Today was a great day.

The First Day Approaches!

The first day of third grade is upon us! Buttercup and Georgia eagerly helped make some last minute preparations to the classroom -- Ms. Young left them with detailed instructions to make sure our classroom is organized and ready for the arrival of 13 bright, smiling faces tomorrow morning!