Clay boats, voting, etc!

This week has been pretty busy because we had district benchmark assessments in both science and math, plus we are out all day for a field trip tomorrow, but we have still done a lot of fun stuff!

In Social Studies we continued our election unit by hosting our primary election! My students were SO excited to bring in their voter registration cards and vote. Our side of the hall primarily voted for Movie and Popcorn, and the other side voted for Doughnut holes. So those will be our two "candidates." I made this cute little ballot box and the "I voted today" stickers to make it more realistic and fun!

In science we studied density and buoyancy by doing a clay boat lab. We discussed how clay was more dense than water, and thus would sink. However, students learned that if they could build their boats to make them buoyant enough, they would float! We then took them outside and tested them to see which could hold the most pennies. The winning group's boat held 23 pennies! Click here to download the lab!

We also played Matter Scoot, which I unfortunately did not take any pictures of. This is not my product, but it is very cool and you can find it here!

In ELA we worked on sequencing events. Click the picture to download your FREE poster pieces!

We also worked with leveled readers to sequence events and reviewed summary by reading Stellaluna.

We studied verb tense. I love this smart board lesson to practice the skill! Click here to download your own copy!

In  poetry we learned about onomatopoeia, and I showed this awesome rap from Youtube - they wanted to watch it over and over and OVER! Click the picture to follow the link.

In math we reviewed for our assessment in a couple of different ways. First, we played Subtraction Bingo. Students made their boards by solving problems and recording their differences, and then we played the game! Click here to download your own copy of this fun game!

Then we did something else really cool! Since our test covered 6 units, each of the third grade teachers picked one unit and made a 15 minute game to review and practice the skill. Then all of the classes rotated through our rooms one afternoon, I played addition bowling, which you can find here. It's not my product, but it was a lot of fun! Be careful though, because there were some missing parts when I printed the file.

Tomorrow we'll be visiting the Klein Art days at the art museum. My sweet kids are so excited; they've been telling me that they're having dreams about it! It's the first field trip for most of them.