Welcome to 3rd/4th grade!
The 3rd/4th team includes: Sarah Daye (classroom teacher), Claire Gallagher (classroom teacher), Rebecca Nally(special educator), Rose Riley (special educator), and Sheila Booth (paraeducator). Find your homeroom teacher’s name below. We are so excited to see everybody for the 2016-2017 school year! Below are some reminders for the first weeks of school: •The first day of school will be on Thursday September 1st. Ms. Gallagher’s class has P.E. (Bring your sneakers!). Ms. Daye’s class has art. •You are welcome to bring your own school supplies (pencils, erasers, coloring utensils, folders, etc), if you wish. School supplies have been ordered for all students. •Save the date: Open house is on September 6th (time TBD). The classroom teachers will give you a class schedule and tell you about project-based learning (PBL). This year the teachers will be encouraging parents to sit and enjoy a short presentation on class norms during the open house. We recognize that there are families with more than one classroom to visit, and we will do our best to accommodate this. We will keep you posted on the time of this event. Please email Sarah ([email protected]), Claire ([email protected]), Rebecca ([email protected]), or Rose ([email protected]) with any questions or concerns. Also check out our blog to see class happenings: http://cabotvt34.weebly.com/ This is the first year the current 3/4 team has had a blog to keep parents informed about classroom happenings. We would love to hear what you think about the blog. Our goal is to make it the best it can be. Please fill out the short survey and provide feedback on your experience. Thanks!
PBL EXHIBITION OF LEARNING: OCEANOGRAPHY
Cabot 3rd/4th grade class What: An educational experience about the Atlantic Ocean When: Thursday May 26th from 6-7:30 PM Where: Cabot School’s CSPAC Building Keep in mind… Students are expected to wear formal clothing (khakis, button down shirts, or dresses/skirts Students should arrive 10 minutes before start time, so they can organize their materials and receive teacher directions. As you can see, this water doesn't look very good. We talked about how water can be polluted by plastic, medicine, and other garbage. The water we drink is connected to all waterways (oceans, rivers, creeks, etc), so our actions can have a big impact.
Then how can we help? One way we can help is to clean polluted water and make it safe to drink. With some alum and coffee filters, we were able to clean the dirty water and make it clear. Since we didn't disinfect it, we decided not to drink it. Our latest science experiment tested ocean water from Maine and freshwater from our fish tank using water test strips. We talked about how things with more acid are similar to lemon juice, while things with less acid were like drinking water. As a class, we decided that tank water was less acidic than ocean water. We still won't be drinking any Ponyo water! Our tetra fish have names! We decided on Bubbles and Creampuff. And yes, we can tell them apart! Creampuff has a little black dot on his tail, and Bubbles does not. A special thank you to one of our third and one of our fourth grade students for presenting our learning to the whole elementary school at our community meeting. We shared pictures of our fish drawings and some facts we have learned about fish.
The fish have arrived! Our goldfish is named Ponyo. Ms. G got the name from a movie, and we learned it means "chubby" in Japanese.
Our two tetra fish are anonymous (for now). Our share question for the week is: What should we name our two little fish? We will put it to a vote and decide as a class on what we should call the little guys or girls. A guest teacher in our classroom brought ocean artifacts from her time in Saint John. This is a conch shell that she got from the depths of the ocean. People eat the mollusk meat inside and then drill holes in the top to make a horn-like instrument. We gave it a try and decided it is a hard instrument to play!
We will be getting some aquatic friends in our classroom. It won't be ocean life since it would be a little tricky to maintain the salt water. But fresh water fish will be our aquarium tank Monday morning! |
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