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...

 The 3rd grade class has covered a lot of ground since arriving back at school, now almost two weeks ago! Our first art display, Sunflowers, is now up in the hallway. Stop in and check it out! For this project, the students worked with Ms. Linda, painting their beautiful sunflowers with Q-tips.  Our class has been learning the basic procedures that will help us to have a successful schoolyear. After studying the classroom rules, the 3rd grade made comics to show some of the things NOT to do in school. The results gave us a good laugh! In Social Studies, we have commenced our geography studies for the year by looking at the continents of the world. For this activity, the students joined in groups to help each other decide which countries belonged in which continents. Almost all of their group-decisions were accurate! TISA started having afterschool programs last week. After the students finish their homework in tutoring, they may have free-time to create art or read. Look at th...

 The 3rd grade had an amazing field trip to the Harwood Museum. The students were a bunch of troopers, walking all the way there from school! The journey was worth it, because we saw some beautiful Taos-inspired artwork, and created many incredible works ourselves.  The students recently had the opportunity to use their math skills to build their own city! They calculated the area and perimeter of certain essential city buildings, and presented to the class their designs. 

 As our year comes to a close, the 3rd grade has wrapped up a few of their ongoing projects and has gone on some awesome field trips over the last few weeks.  Before going to the Red River Hatchery, where we released our trout into their natural habitat, the 3rd grade gave lessons to the TISA kindergarten on all the things they had learned over the previous months, including trout life cycles, anatomy, habitat, and nutrition! Going to the Hatchery was an amazing experience. We got to tour all the different tanks where they keep trout in their various stages of life. We got to feed a pond-full of hungry adult trout, and we got to go fishing, where several people from our class had some significant catches.  Our class went along with the 4th graders to visit the Albuquerque Zoo. We saw many incredible animals, including penguins, peacocks, and chimpanzees! Our classes were also lucky enough to have a private lesson with some of the zoo's wildlife experts.