TISA 3rd Grade

TISA had its annual Read-a-thon recently. The students hunkered down with their blankets and stuffed animals and had a great time reading with their friends. Thanks to the generous pledges that they received from friends and family, the number of the books that the students read is going to help us go on some fun field trips this Spring! 

Our class has been busy as usual learning about cool stuff and doing fun, educational art projects. Check out what we've been up to, including Polygon Monsters, Math Night, the Puppet Show, and the visit from the Santa Fe Chamber Music string quartet!  Here are some samples of one of our latest, entitled Polygon Monsters. For this project, the students used some of the polygon shapes that they had been learning about in geometry to make their own imaginative designs. They then wrote stories about their characters. Check out the display in the hallway next time you are at school.  Our Math Night on March 5th was a huge success. Lots of families, from all grades came to participate in the all the various math games that were available. Who knew there were so many fun ways to practice our math skills? The 3rd grade did a spectacular job in producing their Puppet Show. The students worked hard for months on this project, designing their own puppets and working as a team to write their

 

As usual, the 3rd grade has been busy lately doing cool assignments in class and getting out on fun field trips in the community.  Our Reading Marathon is running right along smoothly. The students have completed many "steps" already in the race to read as many books as they can. The judges have at last reached and consensus and determined that the whole-class reward for running our marathon throughout the whole elementary school building will be.... a field trip to Baskin Robbins for ice cream cones!  Please encourage students to continue filling out reading logs. They may write a reading log for any amount of reading they do, even if they don't finish an entire book. Stickers will still be awarded for each reading log turned in, and two stickers for every book completed.  The students have been doing some fantastic work in Math lately. Here we are building on what we have learned about making arrays for multiplication problems in order to figure out the area and perimet

Congratulations once again to Caira for winning the Smelly T-Shirt Reading Contest in the Fall. Acknowledgement is also in order for Abby, Willow, and Analyia, who came in close runners up.  Fortunately for everyone, our class is starting up a new Reading Contest for the Spring. The theme is a Reading Marathon. We are now writing our reading logs on "running feet," which we are going to put up around the school and see how far we get! Students will continue to earn stickers, which they can put on their marathon avatars.  Our class went on a fantastic field trip last week to the Talpa Community Center. We got to visit the library, where the students explored new books and read to each other. Thanks to the librarian there, Ms. Lucita, we also got to make tortillas. They came out so tasty, and the students enjoyed eating them for lunch paired with butter, peanut butter, and fresh jam. Feel free to contact me if you want the recipe.  Our class walked to the Guadalupe gymnasium la