TISA 3rd Grade

The Third Grade had a fantastic field trip to the Harwood Museum last week. The team there put together a great program. The students got to examine landscape paintings in detail, and even add sounds to them! They also painted some lovely watercolors of landscapes, inspired by the art they saw.  We have some truly talented artists in this class. Check out this watercolor by Odin, and this photography by Avyana! Our studies of life sciences are advancing marvelously! We have grown the seeds that we sprouted in recent weeks into respectable little plants. We also now have our trout eggs safely nestled in a net in the fish tank. 

In science, the 3rd grade studied the sun's movement and shadows several weeks ago. One section of that lesson included tracing shadows at different times of the day, to see how they lengthened and shortened. The students then drew and colored-in shadow portraits of themselves, which can now be seen hanging in our room. In math, while we have mainly been focusing on regrouping when doing addition and subtraction problems, the 3rd grade has just started to talk about multiplication. One method we have used to solve multiplication problems is repeated addition. The students made Repeated Addition Trees to show the answers to some simple multiplication problems.  We've finally gotten our fish tank up and running! Thanks to Ryan Stodgell, who is Odin's father, we are ready to start caring for our trout eggs, which should be arriving soon. Last year's 3rd grade had a blast doing the trout project. Check some blog posts from Spring 2022 to see photos. The plan is that we are ...

Our bake sale last week was a huge success! We had the line going all the way to the gate of the school. The students not only helped promote the bake sale, they also made their own cookies with Ms. Ali. Thanks to the generous (and delicious) contributions of all our 3rd grade families, the class managed to raise enough money for our Fall field trips.  In Science, we have been investigating seeds. Last week the students compared seeds from different fruits. Next week we will start observing what happens as seeds germinate. In Social Studies, the class has continued studying the continents of the world. In particular, we have been looking at the types of animals, land forms, and other features that one might find in some of the continents. The students tested their knowledge in a high-stakes game of Continents Jeopardy! Another fun project that we have been working on are sock puppets with Ms. Anandi. The class will incorporate the mindfulness concepts that they have been learning a...