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Monday, October 29, 2012
Energy and Perimeter
Sorry for the long period of not posting! Now that conferences are starting to wrap up, I actually have time to blog! Here is a little recap of what we have been doing for the last 2 weeks from our guest bloggers this week on estimation and energy!
We are studying sound energy this week by doing various labs. In math, we learned about perimeter and how to calculate the missing length of an object using the perimeter. We will start time to the nearest minute after reviewing time to the closest 5 minute and hour.
We are studying sound energy this week by doing various labs. In math, we learned about perimeter and how to calculate the missing length of an object using the perimeter. We will start time to the nearest minute after reviewing time to the closest 5 minute and hour.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Rounding, addition, subtraction, temperature and buoyancy
I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday! I am sorry for the late post this week! First off I want to say that I found the mistake "Follow by Email" feature. I have corrected it so please make sure you add your email again so that you can get the emails! I apologize and I'm glad with the help of one of you that I was able to figure it out!
We have done a lot of rounding and reviewed subtraction and addition! The kids finally got their "ah-ha" moment that they did learn to subtract with regrouping in 2nd grade! It took a lot of digging in the long term memory to remember it! :) We have also reviewed addition so I hope our kids remember with some friendly reminders! I know 3rd math has been harder due to more analytical word problems that we have the kids doing. I promise all the reading and the need to pay attention to detail will help them in the long run and on the STAAR test in the spring!
We have used Edmodo quite a bit in science to record temperatures around the world! I have posted some mystery pictures for the kids to guess to get their brain juices working! It is pretty cool to see what they guess based on a zoomed up picture of an object. They have enjoyed learning since Mrs. Skaggs and I have started using Edmodo! We love it! We also learned the about buoyancy by doing a sinking and floating lab. Did you know that a rubber band sinks?! I didn't until yesterday! It amazes me what I can still learn from 3rd grade science! We used this learning opportunity to have the kids work more on team building with an aluminum foil boat building contest! No actual prizes were rewarded of course because it was about how they work together as a team! They had a great time and seemed to enjoy the experience and learned more about why things sink and float.
I will upload the video blogs tomorrow when I get them uploaded from the iPads!
Happy Tuesday!
We have done a lot of rounding and reviewed subtraction and addition! The kids finally got their "ah-ha" moment that they did learn to subtract with regrouping in 2nd grade! It took a lot of digging in the long term memory to remember it! :) We have also reviewed addition so I hope our kids remember with some friendly reminders! I know 3rd math has been harder due to more analytical word problems that we have the kids doing. I promise all the reading and the need to pay attention to detail will help them in the long run and on the STAAR test in the spring!
We have used Edmodo quite a bit in science to record temperatures around the world! I have posted some mystery pictures for the kids to guess to get their brain juices working! It is pretty cool to see what they guess based on a zoomed up picture of an object. They have enjoyed learning since Mrs. Skaggs and I have started using Edmodo! We love it! We also learned the about buoyancy by doing a sinking and floating lab. Did you know that a rubber band sinks?! I didn't until yesterday! It amazes me what I can still learn from 3rd grade science! We used this learning opportunity to have the kids work more on team building with an aluminum foil boat building contest! No actual prizes were rewarded of course because it was about how they work together as a team! They had a great time and seemed to enjoy the experience and learned more about why things sink and float.
I will upload the video blogs tomorrow when I get them uploaded from the iPads!
Happy Tuesday!
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