Edward Tulane Field Trip

Last Wednesay we were lucky enough to attend Oregon Childrens Theater's production of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. It took place at the Winningstad Theater in downtown Portland. We read the book as a read aloud in class. It is a touching and at moments heart-breaking story of a China rabbit who goes on an epic journey and learns how to love. The book was written by the fabulous Kate DiCamilio who also wrote the book Flora and Ulysses which we read earlier this year. 

3rd/ 6th Grade Garden Partnership

3rd grade has partnered up with the 6th graders to do some buddy gardening. This spring we're starting small with a salad garden. We hope to have a celebration salad meal at the end of the school year to celebrate and integrate some learning and classroom content along the way! Thanks to Mr. Radich, Ms. Ferris, and the 6th graders for helping us get our hands in the dirt. :) 

Haiku Hike at Wapato

One cloudy and cool morning in February, we set out do the 2 mile loop at Wapato Park. Luckily we were mostly dry and while we walked we started to collect words and images in our minds, hearts, and poetry notebooks so we can later on turn these thoughts and images into haikus. A special thanks to Kim DuBois, Jenny Malone, Sarah Murrell, Paul the bus driver, and SIA Community member John Eccles for joining us on this adventure and for the beautiful photos!

Measurement in Math

Third Graders have been working hard in the last month to deepen their understanding of measurement; more specifically mass, volume, and length. We started by doing some work with pan balance scales to see how much mass certain classroom items have, estimating before we starting using the scales. 

Later on we worked with liquid volume, estimating the amount of liquid that would fill up certain containers before pouring the water in these containers. 

Last week we read the book Jim and the Beanstalk. After reading the book, students worked in partners to create their own beanstalk, later counting and measuring the beanstalk and its leaves to the nearest quarter inch. We have used our unit on measurement to introduce basic concepts about fractions, such as what 1/2, 1/3, 1/4/ and 1/8 represent and which fractional part is a bigger amount of the whole.