TISA 3rd Grade

 We are already well into 2022, and the TISA 3rd grade has been building momentum, covering new concepts in Math, improving their reading and writing, doing cool art projects, and having fun all the way through.  On Wednesdays, the TISA Skating Club has been enjoying the ice rink at the Taos Youth and Family Center As an integrated art project with our Math unit on Geometry, the students have been working on Polygon Monsters using stencils with geometric shapes.  By Brayden By Sebastian By Zoe R.  The class has also been doing some interesting work in Ms. Cassandra's art class, exploring color wheels.  The TISA 3rd grade is going to be working with Trout Unlimited this Spring to raise trout in the class room, then go and release them into the river once they are mature. Thanks to Case's dad, we have gotten the tank set up and are awaiting the fish! The class has started reading a new book called And Now Miguel. Everyone should enjoy it because it is about a boy...

 The TISA 3rd grade was busy on a lot of projects prior to going on Winter Break in December. Here are a few of the outstanding projects that they completed. Thanks to the extraordinary help of our Art teacher, Ms. Cassandra, we made our own books, complete with covers and bindings. We filled our books with some of the amazing poetry that we had been writing all throughout the Fall.                                                         Here is Claire's Poetry Book.  Here is a lovely one by Quinn. Erica made a marvelous Poetry Book. Here is a Shape Poem and a Haiku from Brayden's book. In concluding our unit on the book, Little House in the Big Woods, the 3rd grade created Do-It-Yourself projects, just like Laura and her family would have had to do in the olden days. The students chose some excellent items to make, and did a remarkab...