Mountains and Rivers Project

Students have been so engaged this week with their rivers and mountains projects! In the pictures below, they are filling their US maps with clay, carving out the rivers, building the mountains, painting their maps, and correctly labeling each. They had an amazing time and learned so much in the process!

Solar Eclipse!

We had such a memorable day learning about the solar eclipse and witnessing it happen! Here are some awesome activities we did:

1. How can the small moon cover the big sun? Students discovered that the moon can eclipse the sun because of distance! Objects appear smaller when they are further away. They "eclipsed" the sun (basketball) with the moon (ping pong balls) and measured how far they had to step back.

2. Next, we ate some solar eclipse snacks! We had moon pies, sun chips, and caprisuns as we watched Bill Nye The Sun!

3. Then, we stapled rubber bands on our glasses to make them fit nice and tight on our heads!

4. We chewed our eclipse gum as we did third grade solar eclipse stations!

5. THE SOLAR ECLIPSE VIEWING 🌝🌚🌞⭐️

Friday Fun

We researched the major US mountains and rivers today and found some really cool facts to write down!

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We also had fact Friday practice! Our key masters called out the answers for their friends.

**The Solar Eclipse on August 21st is going to be an exciting event for Oconee County Schools :) Students will watch it here at school!! We will make sure everyone is safe and that all eyes are protected with proper glasses. Please look at the picture below for late dismissal that day!

Fun learning!

We learned about how to use lines of latitude and longitude on a map today! Students located specific continents and oceans with latitude and longitude coordinates. 


 

Mr. Sims, the school counselor, came to talk with us about our emotions and how to help each other out!

We made a "web" of connections today after interviewing our friends! 

Today we learned how to work in groups! They each had to hold a string that was attached to a rubber band. The goal was to build a specific tower with the cups WITHOUT touching them. They could only use the rubberband. Afterwards, we talked about how it took EVERYONE'S participation, communication, and ideas in order for them to build the tower :) team work makes the dream work!

Day 1 Fun

We had such a fun first day in third grade!! In the class picture, we are decorating our new "wallets" for our Malcom money. In the next picture, Evan is sharing his All About Me Bag with the class :) Can't wait for another exciting day tomorrow!

We had a wonderful open house yesterday!! I am so excited to start the new school year with amazing third grade thinkers :) I really enjoyed meeting my students' families and look forward to getting to know them more!