Grade 3 Class

Other than studying hard to do really awesome on the PAT on June 14 and 16, my hardworking group is going to finish the school year with bang by putting together some very big Social Studies Projects and Science Projects.

All year my students have learned about four interesting and unique countries from the Grade Three Social Studies curriculum: India, Ukraine, Peru and Tunisia. Throughout the year, the students have studied indepth on the economic, cultural, traditional and modern ways of all the these countries and have grown quite interested in them. Each student seems to have drawn an interest to one particular country and so I plan to let them create a project involving pictures, essay, reports, data and graphs, food, materialistic goods as well as art work from their favorite country of choice. The ways they can show their knowledge and interests in their country is endless.

In Addition we will be studying two nature units simultaneously in Science: lifecycles and rocks and minerals (sort of an Earth Science based project) The Grade three curriculum dictates that we learn about several life cycles througout the unit: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds and insects. I beleive in making all my science lessons as real and hands-on as posssible and so have had hamsters and geckos visit in the class over a period of a few weeks. We are very excited to add Aquatic Frogs, Guppies(fish) and Painted Lady Butterflies to our Grade Three family for June! The exciting part about studying these animals is that we will get to witness an entire lifecyle from each of them for June. Since I believe that students should have a say over what they are interested in and what they want to learn the student will have a chance to choose afavourite animal lifecycle and present a project about it.