Third Graders Are Performers!
Reading groups had a great time practicing fluent, expressive reading with Readers Theater this week. Students spent a week working on reading their parts with rate, tone & expression that showed their characters' traits and feelings.
Then they created costumes that further reflected their character & practiced for several more days before performing for the class. Bravo, readers! |
Characters Cocktail Party
Characters from our favorite books had a chance to meet & learn more about each other's stories.
Characters from our favorite books had a chance to meet & learn more about each other's stories.
Growing Crazy! |
Third graders have learned a lot this year about different climates & biomes around the world, & how plants & animals have adapted over time to survive in these environments. Our favorite lessons give us the animal (or plant) perspective through acting out situations. Students have been migrating caribou & zebras, imaginary bird called Whallops with several beak variations, mice & hawks in a forest undergoing environmental changes such as fire, flood & human progress, and several different types of plants. Today, students learned how invasive plant species can affect the native plants in a habitat by playing Going Crazy! 3 students were invasive Kudzu vines, while the remaining 16 were local plants. As the game progressed students could see how, as the invasive species with no consumers in the environment grew & became stronger, the native plants struggled to compete for sunlight & room to grow, until at last, they disappeared from the habitat. Thanks to 7th graders Marshall, Olivia & Elaina for joining us! |