Painting and science projects in November

The third grade got a lot done in the weeks leading up to our Thanksgiving break. We are in good shape to meet our mid-year learning goals before we leave school in December. Thanks to all the parents who came in for the parent-teacher conferences. Your feedback is very important in continuing to make our classroom a happy, fun, enriching learning place.

Here are some of the students working on their Lollipop Flower paintings. We took our time on this project, carefully tracing our drawings before applying watercolor, and the results came out spectacular!

We were lucky in the week before the break to get to go on a field trip to the Taos Public Library. The students learned about how books are sorted in the library, which helped them find the books they were interested in. We got to check out books, and had a fun group story time.
We were also lucky to get a lesson in Native American culture from one of our parents. The third grade joined with Ms. Jutka's first grade to watch videos and see demonstrations Native American dress, singing and dancing.
Other important work that we did was in science. Over the course of several weeks, we studied temperature in various ways, including by making our own thermometers. We also got to make observations about how the particles in hot water react differently than in cold water. The students recorded their observations very neatly in their science journals, then they all did some great scientific writing about all the things that we had learned and observed through the experiment.

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