Creating Our Community

This week in social studies I am teaching the students about communities. We read a short description of the community we were to create. We then categorized our items to be included into our community into four different categories: geographical, business/industry, homes and other features. The class was broke into these four groups and were responsible for creating the community. It turned out awesome! Our community includes a river, hills, a school, a zoo, even a military base! The students were creative with their ideas and came up with an awesome community!

 

The wall prior to creating the community. 

AND THE COMPLETED COMMUNITY!!!  

We're From…….

Last week the students got to show off the skills they learned from making social studies non-fiction matrixes the past few weeks. They chose a book that focused on different countries all around the world. They read the story, did research on the country and created a poster on the country. On Thursday each student gave a presentation to the class. They all were awesome and are out on display in the halls now!

Recent Activities

Life in third grade has been exciting and busy! I just completed my second week teaching full time to the students. They have been wonderful! I am working towards updating my blog with the recent activities that we are working on. Friday was a busy day as we began our morning attending the fifth grade musical: Making the Band! It was a lot of fun and the fifth graders sang some great hits to us!

Later on in the morning we had an Excel Energy presentation. We learned about the dangers of electricity as well as how to be safe with electricity. The kids loved it and asked many great questions.