MANGA MATH MYSTERIES

Look at the title of this post. Can you guess what our next investigation will be?

I bet you figured it out.

We will be reading, writing and solving a problem using math, comics and technology. It will be fun and you will learn a lot.

Perimeter is something that you will use all your life. You know the fence in your backyard? Well, that is the perimeter of your backyard.

If I draw a square and then trace my finger around the edges of the square. That is the perimeter of the square. Got it?

Don't worry. You will.

When you are done reading this, come to the front.

See you there, super heroes!

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS SUMMER?

One student asked that we use technology to talk about our summer vacation. Great idea! We will be writing in our Technology Journals over the next few weeks and crafting some nice writings regarding our summer vacations.

We will also focus on our spelling and vocabulary using Education Place. Let's get started! The first things we need to learn are:

• How to save a document
• How to write a draft

Then we will learn about Internet safety, revising our writing, editing our writing, and then publishing our stories.

Oh yeah, we are going to blog, too. Boo Yah!

For the Week of April 27

Welcome, Third Grade!

This week we'll be working to gather our information for all six slides of our powerpoint.

Remember: We're looking to make this a very exciting presentation - you want people to come to YOUR country!

Let's have fun!
Mrs. McVey and Mr. Wilson

Image from: http://www.umaine.edu/marine/people/sites/slindsay/LindsayLab/Whaleweb/Images/students%20at%20computer2.JPG


ALL COUNTRIES - Search here, too

Australia
Link 1
Link 2: What do Australians eat?
Link 3
Link 4: Australia Culture - lifestyle, customs

Italy
Link 1
Link 2: Customs, culture of Italians

China
Link 1
Link 2: National Geographic - all kinds of info!
Customs and Culture

Japan
Link 1
Customs and Culture

Kenya
Link 1: What are Kenyans like?
Link 2: All kinds of Kenya info
Customs and Culture

Madagascar
Link 1

Mexico
Link 1: Customs, Culture

Germany
Link 1
Customs and Culture

Brazil
Link 1
Customs and Culture

Scotland
Customs and Culture

Iceland
Customs and Culture

Mrs. Funk's Third Grade

Post your spring break happenings here! :)

Mrs. Rothove's Class

Post your spring break happenings here! :)

Ms. Mason's Class

How was your spring break?

Mrs. White's Class

Post your Spring Break happenings here!

Mrs. Aldrich's Class

Post your spring break happenings here!

For the Week of February 16

Good afternoon, third grade!
I hope you are ready for a fun filled day at computers!
Here's what we'll be doing:

*Type to Learn
*Kidspiration - graphic organizer (three level)
*KidPix - when the graphic organizer is finished :)

Let's have fun!
Mrs. McVey

Welcome, Third Grade!

Today we'll be finishing up our Martin Luther King, Jr. slides. We'll be adding voice over, if you haven't already done that to your slide. We will also be using a digital camera today to take our photos to place on our slide. We're almost ready to become world wide web authors!

You and your partner will be checking the slide for accuracy using a rubric.

Names:
Third Grade Power Point Slide for MLK Presentation

Date of event

Explanation – importance of this date in MLK’s life

Photograph

Website where the photo borrowed is cited

Team photo(s)

Voice over has ALL team members’ voices

Voice over has words pronounced correctly

The layout of the slide is appealing/easy to read

(Visit link #17 if you finish and are waiting for your photograph.) :)

For the Week of January 20

Welcome, Third Grade!


Today we will be putting the finishing touches on our Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Point slide.

We will NOT be adding "designs" or "backgrounds" to the slide. Why do you think we are not adding these items?



Your slide needs to have:

1-Date
2-What happened/where it happened

3-photograph

4-website (or computer program) where you are borrowing the photograph from

5-voice over narrating your slide



When you are finished with your slide (or if you're waiting for a microphone), you may visit these links:
National Geographic "Creature Feature"
Give a Dog a Bone!
Mend the Number Square

Let's have fun!
Mrs. McVey

For the Week of January 12

Welcome, Third Graders!

Today we will be working to create a slide for a class powerpoint about Martin Luther King, Jr.

FIRST, we'll get a piece of paper with a date listed on it to research: What happened in his life on this date that was so important?

SECOND, we'll use this link: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. to find out!

THIRD, we'll WRITE down what happened on that piece of paper.

FOURTH, we'll open up POWER POINT to begin creating ONE slide for that date.

We'll be doing all kinds of things to our slide:

adding an important date and event
photographs
citing the website where you found the photograph
adding voice over to your slide (if you have time) using the microphone

When you finish, you will need to save the ONE slide to your teachers folder in a file called, "Martin Luther King."

Below are a few links where you may want to look for photos:

1. The King Center - hear his famous, "I have a dream..." speech

2. Wikipedia - MLK - read about MLK/find information

3. Civil Rights Museum

4. Scholastic's Site - many links for MLK

5. Virutal Tour of Martin Luther King's home

6. MLK Biography (has advertisements)

7. MLK Timeline (has advertisements)

8. MLK Biography

9. MLK - Biography at Enchanted Learning's site

For the Week of January 6

Welcome back, Third Graders!

This week we will be visiting many fun links to practice our typing skills, navigation skills, and tools we need to know such as adding money and building models. We'll be visiting "outer-cyber-space," too!

Good luck!
Mrs. McVey

1. BBC Dancemat Typing

2. Coin Combo

3. Seed Ball

4. Spaceship - headed to the Earth, Sun, and Moon!