5, 4, 3 Days of School Left!

We celebrated 3 days left of school by rearranging all the desks in the room. Students chose where they wanted to sit and what type of arrangement the desks would be in.

In celebration of 4 days left, students played a fun new game called "Good Morning Teacher."


To celebrate 5 days left of school, students chose new names that they wanted to be called for the day! There sure were some silly ones!

Class Pet Photo Contest

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JUST LITTLE BLUE

Third Grade Student Challenges

I am so proud of all the students 

who completed various Student Challenges 

throughout the school year. Bravo!

Chicago-opoly

As a culminating activity for our Chicago Unit in social studies, students each selected and researched a famous Chicago landmark. After synthesizing their notes into a descriptive paragraph students created a "Chicago-opoly" game board featuring the paragraphs and drawings for each landmark. Today students had the exciting opportunity to play the life-sized game! The students and teachers all learned many new facts!

6 Days Left of School

To celebrate 6 days left we played a competitive, yet fun, game of Name That Tune! Songs ranged from movie theme songs and popular songs on the radio, to video game themes and even our Dryden School song!

7 Days Left of School

To celebrate 7 days left we created a batch of slime! 

We watched science in action and learned all about polymerization. 

Students worked together to complete the steps required to make this fun slime:

(This will make a double batch!)

1.     Measure one cup of water and pour it into the small mixing bowl.

2.   Dump one bottle of glue into the water.

3.   Measure ½ cup of water and using the funnel, pour it into the empty glue bottle.

 

4.   Shake the bottle and empty it into the bowl.

 

5.   Dump another bottle of glue into the water.

6.   Measure ½ cup of water and using the funnel, pour it into the empty glue bottle.

7.    Shake the bottle and empty it into the bowl.

 

8.   Carefully stir the glue and water mixture until it is almost completely smooth.

 

9.   Add four drops of green food color to the bowl.

 

10.    Add four more drops of green food color to the bowl.

 

11.       Mix the glue, water, and food color mixture until the color is consistent.

 

12.     Measure one cup of hot water and pour it into the large mixing bowl.

 

13.     Measure one more cup of hot water and pour it into the large mixing bowl.

 

14.     Measure one teaspoon of Borax and pour it into the large mixing bowl.

15.     Measure one more teaspoon of Borax and pour it into the large mixing bowl.

 

16.     Stir the water and Borax mixture until the Borax has completely dissolved.

 

17.      Slowly and carefully pour the green glue and water mixture into the Borax and water mixture.

 

18.     Scrape out the glue bowl with the spatula.

 

19.     Slowly and carefully begin stirring the green glue, Borax, water mixture. Lift up the spatula every few stirs to show the class what is happening.

 

20.  Reach into the mixture with your hands! Try pulling it all out and putting it into an empty bowl.

8 Days Left

We celebrated 8 days left of school by eating lunch in the beautiful courtyard! Students enjoyed dining at picnic tables and on tree stump benches. We concluded our meal with a quick game of Courtyard Infection. We all had a blast!