Reading with Expression, Pumpkins, Museum, and Parachutes

Happy Friday everyone! Thanks for visiting the Museum of the 3rd-4th Grade Mind.  I was very proud of my students for sharing their learning and passion so confidently.

Here are some pictures from life on the Team this past week. The first set of pictures shows the students practicing reading their personal narratives with expression and fluency. Today we finished recording everyone reading their stories in Adobe Voice and we'll listen to them together at our publishing party on Monday! I'll be sure to send the recordings to you as well :)

Last week, we carved pumpkins and did an estimation activity with the seeds. Thanks to Shreya for coming in to help us! And thanks to everyone who brought in pumpkins!

 After completing the activity the groups presented their carved pumpkins to the class and shared their strategies for estimating the number of seeds, perhaps re-assessing their estimations halfway through the counting process, and accurately and efficiently counting such a large number of seeds. One pumpkin had 1,041 seeds inside!

Here the 5th and 6th graders are visiting the Museum. Some of the visiting Tahitian students were there to participate in the gallery walk!

 Peggy and the kindergartners came as well!

Teacher Brad and I decided to get our classes together and build some parachutes in partners. They strategized design ideas and made observations on the playground. When the 3rd and 4th graders helped the younger students record their observations in their science notebooks. I'm feeling inspired to do some big design challenges in the near future!

After Brad's class left, we talked about wind resistance and gravity. We watched and discussed this really awesome video. I highly recommend checking it out!

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/dropping-bowling-ball-and-feather-vacuum


Thanks again for coming this afternoon!