Outdoor Discovery Center

We had a great day at the Outdoor Discovery Center.  The kids had a great day learning and having fun.  We learned how the Native Americans lived in Michigan, how they built their homes, and the importance of trade.  We also shot darts like the Native Americans would have used for hunting, learned about the French voyagers, and practiced being a voyager in a canoe.  We even tried to make fire!

Upcoming Events:

• Reading Minutes due Monday
• Word work test on Friday
• May 11 (Wednesday) Half day for Tulip time.  Dismissal at 11:30
• May 12 (Thursday) Half day for Tulip Time.  Students remain at school for lunch (brown bag sent from home) and then head to the parade route by bus.  We will be marching in the Kinderparade in the afternoon.  All students will need a dutch costume to wear.   Many students choose to wear them to school already in the morning.   I will send a parade line-up of the kids as the date approaches.

What we have been doing in 3rd Grade:

Bible:  This week we learned how the Israelites did not trust that God would help them defeat the Canaanites and take the promised land as their own.  We see them doubt God once again and for each day that the spies explored the land of Canaan, the Israelites now need to wander in the desert for a year.  40 Years!  Yet we continue to see how God cares for his people.  We talked about how God wants us to rely fully on Him.   We also continued memorizing Acts 2:1-4.

Reading:  Our mystery book clubs continue!  The students are busy reading several chapters each day and jotting down discussion topics that they then take with them to their book clubs.  Each day a new student is in charge of leading this discussion.  This will continue through next week.

Writing:  We focused on our introductions and life event details for our personal essays this week.  The students are doing a nice job of sticking to the big idea that they have chosen to write about and finding experiences from their own lives to back up their opinion.

Science:  We continued our study of light this week.  We experimented how light interacts differently with different materials.  We studied how shadows are made and how to change the length of a shadow by moving the light source.  We also did an experiment to demonstrate that light is refracted when it travels through air and then water.

Math: This anchor chart is just a taste of what we covered in Math this week.  We are busy learning geometry terms and doing a lot of practice with these on our ipads.  Next week we will continue to work with these polygons as we start finding area and perimeter.

Blessings!

Lynae