A Peek At Our Week

In Science this week we’ve been learning about dinosaurs. We learned that paleontologists excavate fossils. There are 5 different types of fossils (eggs, bones, teeth, skin imprints, and footprints). This week we made our own imitation fossils using seashells. We practiced excavating fake fossils (aka chocolate chips) from a cookie using toothpicks. It is very hard work, and we learned that paleontologists must be very careful when digging for fossils. This week we picked our dinosaur for the dinosaur fair project. Each of us will study our own dinosaur and become experts. We will write a dinosaur report and make a science fair board for the Dinosaur Fair on Thursday, May 28^th. Each of us will also create a visual project at home.  In P.E. we are doing fitness testing. Reading Room is finished and now the reading room teachers are testing all the 3^rd grade students to see how much we’ve grown. This week we added fish to our aquarium. Bubbles is our class goldfish, and Gary is our snail (who moves incredibly fast)! Wednesday was job juggling day. Miss Lisinski, who teaches 1^st grade was our teacher, and Miss Gosche taught 1^st grade for the day! In Writer’s Workshop we are working on writing essays about characters from the text. We read Streganona and took a close look at Big Anthony’s character. In Reader’s Workshop we read Mr. George Baker and worked more on making inferences. Julia will be taking Speedy home this weekend! REMINDER: Auditions for the talent show will be next week on Monday! In Math this week we learned DOUBLE DIGIT multiplication! We are really going to WOW our 4^th grade teachers! We are finishing up our Young Author Books because Young Author Night is next Thursday, May 21^st!!!! We hope to see LOTS of families that night . Our books are AMAZING and we can’t wait to share them! As we finish our Young Author illustrations, Miss Gosche is helping us record our books and we will create an iMovie.