Play Performance, Projects, and a Cool Field Trip

Our class has been busy lately with performances, presentations, projects, and field trips. Take a look at all the cool stuff we have been doing. 

Just in time for Spring, here is our latest art-integrated project: Math Flowers. The students came up with as many ways as they could to come up with the same number, using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Stop by and see the display outside our classroom. 


Our class play, The Bird of the Golden Feather, was a huge success. The students had been practicing their performance for month. All the hard work really paid off when it came to showtime. Everyone who came to the show was awed by the costumes, the acting and the dancing!







For STEAM class we had a special visit by a tree specialist. The students learned all about wood, bark and the bugs who love them by scratching away at real field samples. 




The Third Grade has continued our collaboration with Kindergarten. We celebrated Easter by pairing up with our Kindergarten buddies to help them find eggs and solve addition and subtraction problems in our Math Easter Egg Hunt. The class also visited the Kindergarten to teach them about the Solar System using posters and models of planets. 















The Third Grade went on a field trip to the Couse-Sharp Museum in downtown Taos. We got to tour a house, art studio, and metal workshop that looked much the same as they did 100 years ago. We also viewed the museums art storage and records keeping facilities. We finished up our activities there by making our own corn husk dolls!









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