Mrs. Fox's Third Grade: Weekly Update-December 9

Friday, December 9, 2016

Weekly Update-December 9

Announcements

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We continued to have fun learning about health from Mrs. Zapata this week. On Monday, we talked about carbohydrates and sampled cous cous. We also did every level of physical activity from a relaxing walk, to jumping jacks, to push-ups!

When Mrs. Zapata came back on Thursday, we talked about Fat. Students looked at a menu from a fast food restaurant and compared grams of fat in different food items. They then did a taste test between chip 1(regular Lay's chips) and chip 2 (baked Lay's chips.) Almost every student said the baked chips tasted just as good and we learned you can have more of them for less grams of fat. Make sure to look in the Friday folder for more information from Mrs. Zapata.

In the Classroom

In math this week, we continued learning about multiplication. We finished our Skip Counting books and moved on to our next task. We were asked to find different arrangements for a certain amount of chairs. This led to a discussion of arrays as a multiplication tool. We will continue studying arrays next week.

We completed our inventor research papers this week in writing. Students shared these on Thursday. Next week, we will begin the second part of our Informational unit where students compose an expert piece.

We had lots of science this week! We started the week by sharing our machines to save our tigers. See the below videos to view how the machines turned out.

We then discussed other forces such as gravity and friction. Students completed ramp races to test out different surfaces and how they affect friction.

Finally, we shared our inventions on Thursday! The students had a blast seeing what everyone designed. We especially loved catapulting objects across the room. : )