Bye Nurse Rahn

Featured Blogger: Keith

This year our school nurse is retiring and being replaced by someone new.  I do know who it is her name is Nurse Naser but no one else knows who it is.  So some kids in our school are making our own video for her in groups. Like me. The video will be about one time or a few times she has helped us with something.  Something like a ingorey or a loose tooth or anything else like that. By the way I’m a third grader so next year when I’m in fourth grade Nurse Rahn will be gone. I hope you enjoyed, bye!

Pollinator Projects

Featured Blogger: Zoey

Hi my name is Zoey. 3Sp did pollinator projects, the first type of pollinator 3Sp did is a butterfly. Then we did another pollinator and to pick we wrote down our first second and third choice on a sticky note we had a choice of ants, opossums, bats, lemurs and hummingbirds. Ms. Sprague our teacher picked which group we would be in, based on our choice, we didn’t all get our first pick but that’s ok. I got hummingbirds that was my first choice. We  were in groups of 4 because there were 4 parts in the project and then we could each have 1 part to do. When we started we had to organize our books into easy, medium and hard. Then we read them after we read them we took notes on the books. When we were done with our notes Ms. Sprague said we could go on to the project. When we were done with that we had to check with Ms. Sprague and if she said it was good we could publish it, but if it needed fixes you had to work on it more. Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you liked reading my blog.

STEM Challenge

Featured Blogger: Kyle

Hi. I’m Kyle. An I will be telling you about the umbrella STEM challenge we did on Friday June 1st.  What does STEM mean? Well the S in STEM means science. The T means technology. The E in STEM means engineering. The M in STEM means math.  What was the STEM challenge? Well the STEM challenge is where you need to build a umbrella and keep a tissue dry. Simple right? But it's not so simple. Why is it not  simple? Well we can only use a certain amount of items which are… 2 pieces of paper, 2 pencils, 2 paper cups, 5 cotton balls, 2 pipe cleaners, 3 rubber bands, 4 pieces of tape, and 3 playing cards. Now you probably think it's hard. But to make it harder we have to make it in 30-45 mins.  How hard do you think it is now? Well that is my blog hope you enjoy. -Kyle

This is me and my group testing our umbrella.

3Sp Research Extension Project

Featured Blogger: Sammy

In writing and reading, 3Sp students have been working on research extension projects which is when we could pick a informational topic that we could research on. For example, I chose dogs, Nathaniel chose Jackie Robinson, and Colin chose Paul Revere and so on and so forth. We had to find at least 2 books on that topic. After or before you had found your 2 books, you would go to the school library and find more books for your topic. After you got as much books as you need, you would start reading. After you’re done reading your books, you start taking notes. After you’re done taking notes, you start making your presentation. Here is the title slide of my presentation:

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After that,  you would check with a partner. For example, me and Nathaniel both checked each others projects. Now, believe it or not, you just wait. You wait until Ms. Sprague calls your name to check your work. After you and Ms. Sprague check, you are officially done!!! Now that you know all about research extension projects, I encourage you to do one at your house. See you later on the 3Sp blog!!!

KG Buddies in the Garden

Featured Blogger: Nathaniel

Hello, my name is Nathaniel and I am going to tell you about our KG buddies in the 3-4 garden.  When we were in the garden you and your buddy looked around and if you found something interesting you would draw it on a paper.  I drew a mini tipi. A tipi is a structure that native americans lived in. I saw a lot of papers and they all were good third grade or not.  First when we started drawing we drew in pencil. Next when we were done we colored in what we drew. Finally when everybody was done you and your buddie got to play on the playground.  It was a really, really fun way to spent time with your KG buddie. Thanks for reading my blog about KG buddies in the garden. We will see you next time.

3Sp Shared at Assembly

Featured Blogger: Marley

Hello!

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Hi! It’s so nice to see you again! Its me, Marley! Remember? Yay! Ok, today I will be talking to you about how me and everyone else in 3Sp shared at our latest assembly! As you probably remember (which you don’t), we recently (in late May) had an assembly in the gym, in which 3Sp shared our colonial newspapers. What are the colonial newspapers that we wrote? Results of a time machine, perchance? Well, that answer sure is wrong! We studied and wrote them ourselves! How were we organized? Well, there was the walkers (the people who stood up and walked around the gym to show the newspapers), and the talkers ((haha, it rhymes) the people who talked about our colonial newspapers.) Walkers, talkers, walkers, talkers… ok, I’m getting off task, what was was I saying? Oh, yes, right, well, ummm... I guess I’ll see you later… so… bye!

These are pictures from the assembly.

Cultural Arts Assembly

Featured Blogger: Enzo

The first thing that happened was a guy was on the stage and pretending to be a mime. He also was pretending to be trapped in a box. At the beginning of the play there was a rich guy and all he cared about was his money. And one day his heart turned to glass and he went to a witch. And the witch made him a real human heart.

The second play is where a kid is trying to put a boat in the water.  It was foggy out and the kid kept tugging and tugging. When the fog went away he realized he was hitting a rock.

The third play was my favorite play! On the hills of Japan there was a village and right next to the village was a river. There was a never ending food supply because if you put sand in a bowl you will get a fruit or rice. The village was really wealthy. And the river you could have never-ending water. If you drink water from a bowl it will fill up again.

I hope you liked it!

This is a picture of the first play.

Restaurant Project

Featured Blogger: Nicky

Hi my name is Nicky, from 3sp.

In math, my class and I worked on and finished a Restaurant Project.   We are at the step of advertising. Advertising is spreading the word about something that is important to you.  I will tell you the steps of the project:

1. First, our groups came up with a name for our restaurant.
2. Then, we came up with a logo; a picture or motto that represents our restaurant.
3. After that, we make a blueprint for our restaurant.  A blueprint is a sketch map of our building. In the blueprint we draw rooms, tables, chairs, or any other things we need.
4. We measured the perimeter and area of our restaurant, and used it to multiply and come up with a cost for the whole building.
5. Next, we measured the different rooms in the restaurant, and came up with a cost the same way we did with the area and perimeter.
6. Then, we added color and detail to our blueprint, and came up with a cost for it.
7. After that, we wrote a handwritten or typed a menu, (with drinks, main courses, etc.) and once it was printed, we made pictures to go with the menu items.   
8. Finally, we made a creative way to spread the word about our restaurant.  You could do a green screen video, a neat blueprint, a 3D model, a written response about our restaurant, or a slideshow.

Me and my group worked really hard on this project!  It was hard at some points, but we feel so accomplished that we finished and that we made a restaurant!

 

Thanks for reading!

The Multicultural Assembly

Featured Blogger: Sarah

The Multicultural Assembly is an assembly that the third graders put on for the whole school and the parents that want to come.  So that ment this year WE  get to do it this year.  So if you went to the play you got to see us perform.  

There were three scenes.  The first one was 3N the second one was 3Sp and the third one was 3S.  We were in the 2nd scene, and these were our parts:

Danielle = Narrator & Lantern, Zoey = Lantern, Colin = Tech, Sarah/me = Wall Crane, Molly = Narrator, Nathaniel = City Folk, Jake = Tech, Nicky = City Folk, Gabe = Narrator, Serenity = Wall Crane, James = Narrator, Sam = Wang, Kyle = City Folk, Keith = Musician, Ema = City folk, Nora = Beggar, Fiona = Wall Crane, Eamonn = lantern, Katherine = Narrator, Marley = Narrator, Audrey = Tain, Enzo = City Folk.

Now I hope you are excited to know the story  of The Lord Of The Cranes. I will not tell you the whole story this is just a summery.  Once there was a very happy man named Tain witch means heaven. That man had cranes that would do anything for him that is why he was the Lord Of The Cranes.  One day he wanted to see what happens in the world below. So the old man went on top of a crane and flew down to the city. On the way he found a beggar and he ask him “would you be able to exchange your clothes with mine.” So like I said I’m NOT going to go into the details right now my job is to get you into the book so the book sellers get money.  So Tain and the beggar traded clothes and Tain went begging in the city and no one noticed him (you get the trend).  Then one day Tain spied a small inn and asked for something to eat and drink but he had no money to pay. Then the innkeeper gave him some dumplings and rice wine.  The innkeeper didn’t mind that Tain didn’t have the money. Then the innkeeper let Tain come every day to get some food and drink. Then he wanted to repay him so…

I’m going to stop there so you don’t know the whole book before you buy it.  All of the third graders did a great job!!! It was really fun to do the Multicultural Assembly and I KNOW  your kids will say the same.  And don't forget Eddie/my dad as our filmer.  But time to wrap this up.

BYE!!!

Have fun watching the Multicultural Assembly and don’t forget to read all the other blog posts and always be happy. :)

Writer:      Sarah Close 3Sp