TISA 3rd Grade

The 3rd grade class at TISA has been doing an excellent job so far at managing their own learning and working at home with their families. I have been very impressed with how disciplined everyone has been, and how responsible they are at handing in their assignments on time, proving that they have done their best quality of work. Even though it would be more fun to be here together at school, so we could show our friends the cool work we are doing, we can still follow each other's progress through our class blog. This week has been the second week that we have been cultivating our sourdough starters. Next week, we should be able to bake our first loaf of bread. Here are some of our classes pictures of their starters. Owen's starter:  Isaiah's starter: One of the fun projects we did this week was making bubbles at home. We used dishwashing soap and corn syrup to make bubble solutions, that we could then blow bubbles with using straws. Here are pictures of some of...

We are now into our second week of working at home. I'm sure everyone misses each other by now, but you have all been doing a great job at fulfilling your assignments at home, and sending me photos and emails so that I can follow your progress. I am curious how people's sourdough starters are going. I made one at home too, and it's just starting to get kind of gooey like dough. I have never done this before, so it will be interesting to see how it goes. Thanks to those of you who have started the starter and have sent me some pictures. Here are photos from Marcos and Santi, showing how their starters are going. Yesterday people did the nature scavenger hunt, where they went outside to find all sorts of stuff not only with their eyes, but with their senses of hearing, smell, and touch too! Kaely came up with some nice stuff on her scavenger hunt. Here are photos of some of the things that she found. We also started out artwork in the style of the abstract pai...

What a surprise to come back from Spring Break and find out that school is cancelled for the next 3 weeks! Everyone seems to be getting used to the new way we will have to be learning as long as school remains closed. Thanks to everyone who came in to pick up a work packet. And thanks to those of you students who continue working hard at home. This week we started reading Charlotte's Web as a class. This is a great story to read in the Springtime because the farm animals in the story are all coming out of their Winter slumbers and are excited about meeting their new friend, Wilbur the pig. So far we have read 4 chapters already, and we have seen Wilbur move into his new home on Zuckerman's farm. We have also started a new science-baking project, which includes making a starter for sourdough bread. We should be able to bake the bread in a few weeks. The students mixed 1 part flour with 1 part water, and a few people had some good ideas about what will happen to the mixture....

During the last couple of weeks before Spring Break, the Third Grade class at TISA has done a lot of cool and fun things. We had a visit from the mother of one of our students, who is an expert leather worker. She showed everyone how to imprint designs into leather. We all had a great time, and got to take home some very nice finished leather pieces! Our dance classes have been ramping up, as the dance teacher is taking the students through all the major dance movements of the 20th century. They have done the 1920's, the 1930's, and all the intervening decades until now, when they are up to the 1960's. Everyone got really excited and did a great job on our US States Project, in which the students got to research information about the states of their choice, and make creative posters showing all the interesting stuff they came up with. Their final work was extremely impressive, with most of the class earning perfect scores on the assignment for the quality of ...