TISA 3rd Grade

Kaely made twin sculptures of her and her mom appearing as two lovely angels. Marcos had a cool idea for making a sculpture. I liked how he made this one stand up. Gracen had a nice design for his too. It almost looks like a tree with branches. Santi had a really original idea. He made a rocket, and even used clay to make it look like the rocket was blasting off. Derek had a really great idea. He decided to make a butterfly. I think this design works rather well for tin foil sculpture.

Santi made Strawberry Jelly for his final project. I'll bet the Ingalls family would have enjoyed trying some of this stuff back there in the Big Woods. He also posted a video of his cooking process, which you can see on Google Classroom.  For Derek 's final project, he really did something that would have been useful if he were living in the 1800's. He made a planter box so that he could start a garden! He used real tools and wood. I'm sure he will have a successful garden with a beautiful box like this.  Here is what Marcos came up with for the Pointillism painting. Sometimes when you use pointillist techniques and dab a paper with watercolor, it can come out as one solid picture. Isaiah did an amazing job on his final project. He sewed a sock puppet and it looks really professionally done. I could imagine seeing this for sale in a toy store. Isaiah also made a nice self-portrait of himself for the autobiography project. We all...

We have some beautiful student work this week coming from our Little House in the Big Woods and our Biography assignments. First up, everyone should check out Kyla 's video, which is on Google Classroom, posted May 8th. I couldn't upload it to the blog, but I think everyone should watch it because she shows us how she made tie-dye clothes for her project.  Kaely made a doll, just like Laura and her sister did in Little House in the Big Woods. I wonder if girls in the 1800s could have imagined hair this awesome and imaginative!  One of the parts to the Biography assignment required students to make portraits of the people who they wrote about. Paris chose a very interesting historical figure, Cleopatra the Queen of Egypt, who lived over 2000 years ago! Here you can see Derek hard at work for his final project. He chose to make a planter box, which I'm sure would have been a very useful thing for the family to have in the Big Woods. I hope Derek will te...

Paris made lip balm for her final project. I wonder if the people in Little House in the Big Woods ever used this recipe when their lips got chapped. Paris also received extra credit on the assignment by making a video. Here is Miguel's diorama. He had a good idea to use Legos to show a scene from the book. Building settings with Legos is not easy. I am impressed with the scene that Miguel was able to create.