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It's time for the beat! Inspired by the book I Got the Rhythm by Connie Schofield-Morrison, we created a unison dance to a steady beat. We're staging it and will premiere it at Spring Celebration. We hope you can join us on Tues, June 13 at 4pm.

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We closed out our Storytelling in Dance series with guest artist Brinda Guha, who taught us some gestures from Khatak, a form of Classical Indian dance.

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In PE we learned different coordination games like you see on the picture. We also played soccer, learned to pass a ball and played the fun game "Sitzball".

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Grade 3 has been hard at work learning to read and play more complex rhythms! We've been learning a winter rhythm "cup flipping" rhythm game and practicing our sight singing/ear training with Solfege. In the new year we will continue to work on our music reading skills as well as play more instruments!

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DICIEMBRE 2022
We continued learning the days of the week, the months of the year and the seasons in Spanish. We sang different songs and watched videos from Basho and Friends and Rockalingua, a music based Spanish learning platform. We also reviewed numbers up to 20 and learned tens until 50.
We had a blast singing "Colorín, colorado¨ reviewing the numbers and colors.
We began a new unit about feelings to learn to answer Cómo estás? and Qué tal estás? while practicing small dialogues.  Our goal to to talk as much Spanish as possible.

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In German we practiced a lot of spelling with our Lernwörter, but also with writing a whole dictation. Also we spoke a lot about grammar (articles, nouns, verbs, adjectives, singular and plural). We did a lot of reading in our tandems, this time we also answered some questions for the text, that we improve our reading comprehension as well as our reading fluency.

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In Math we talked about Division with remainder and practiced a lot multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in general. We also did that in a context of factual tasks, where we have to think about what the question, the calculating and the answer is. We also spoke about different shapes (2D and 3D). With chickpeas we built our own shapes and experienced how we can make a 3D shape out of 2D shapes.

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After talking about grains and how we can use them to make bread, we talked a lot about the potato. How did the Potato come to Europe? Who discovered the potato? Where are potato growing? All these questions were answered!

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In Ethics we talked about Thanksgiving and why we celebrate it. We received little thank you cards in German and English. We discussed for what we are thankful and how we would celebrate Thanksgiving in Germany.

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In art class we did a lot of crafts according to the seasons. Halloween-themed figures were cut out and painted, Halloween lanterns... We experienced printing with a potato by making birds in a winter wonderland. We also made our own advent calendar out of empty milk boxes and we are so happy to open these little trains.

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Science never fails to keep third grade entertained! We're close to completing  our animals through time unit. We've learned about traits and environmental variation. We also studied animal groups and survival tactics. Do you know why dogs wag their tails?

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We're continuing our geography unit for social studies and feel confident that if google maps fails us, the ability to read and navigate maps are a skill set worth having. Don't forget, never eat soggy waffles!

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January: On to storytelling traditions in dance! When we return from Winter Break, we'll study the pantomime tradition in ballet. There's nothing like telling a swan that you love her beautiful face. In February, we hope to have a guest artist teach us about an Indian dance tradition. More information coming!

December: We finished our dance about caffenatied sea creatures and shared it with the Kindergarten classes on the last day before break. The students said that it was scary and a little embarrassing, but Diana is really proud of them for doing their best.

September - December: In dance, we're using our skills to create and tell original stories. First, we used our round, angular, and twisted shapes on low, middle and high levels to make tableaus. Then, we made up stories based on what we saw in the tableaus. Now, we're adding movements to explore characters and adjectives. Look out for caffeinated octopuses and happy dolphins coming to a stage near you soon.

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In art class we drew a lot to stories. A mouse that wanted to nibble on a pencil was tricked by the pencil, which simply drew a cat to scare the mouse. Another story was about a rooster who was forgotten to color, so we had to help him find his colors. We also experimented with oil pastels by painting a hedgehog in similar shades. This also enabled us to mix colors.

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In ethics we talked about class rules. What rules help us in everyday life? How do we treat other correctly at school? We also talked about what was covered in ethics class last year. We also talked about our feelings.

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In Sachkunde we talked about grains. What are the different types of grains? We looked at what a grain plant looks like and what a corn plant looks like. We found that there are many similarities to the early bloomers we learned about last year, but also differences. We learned about wheat, rye, spelt, oats and corn. We also discussed what we use grains for and which of our foods actually contain grains.

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OCTUBRE 2022
In Spanish class we have been learning how we greet someone in the morning, afternoon and night, how to ask for someone's name and how to answer, how we are doing and how to say goodbye. We are also learning how to ask someone's age and how to answer. We practiced all these expressions singing songs, playing the "Ritmo" game, creating small dialogues and watching and singing with the Videos of Basho and Friends and Rockalingua. We are learning the colors, the alphabet and the numbers until 20. We also created a "Monster" version of ourselves and presented it in class practicing the expressions: "Me llamo ...,  Soy de ... , Tengo .... años, Vivo en ..."  We just began a unit about "El Día de los Muertos" (The day of the dead) and will learn about this fun mexican tradition.

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In math, we learned new numbers that are even bigger than the ones we already know. Last school year we calculated up to 100, now we have learned the numbers up to 1000. First we discussed what the numbers in the hundreds are called, now we can calculate with them.

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In music class we are working on our sense of rhythm and beat as well as beginning work on sight singing and reading music. The kids have used these skills to sing new songs and accompany them with percussion instruments. We've also explored our creativity by making music-inspired drawings!

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In PE we played different games where we move a lot and can use the space of the park. Catch, Relays and all kind of running games. We now have to soccer goals so soon we will be able to play some team games as well.

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In English, we have experienced so much growth as writers. We're set to wrap up our personal narrative unit at the start of of the year. We will celebrate with our first publishing party, more details to follow.

We finished Stuart Little for our read aloud and celebrated with a quiz to test our comprehension.  We're excited to
begin next year with CL Lewis's classic, 'The lion, the witch and the wardrobe.'

We had our first spelling test this past week and will make this a part of our routine in the new year. There will be weekly homework assignments to help them practice and prepare for their tests.

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In German class we talked, read and listened a lot about fairy tales. How do most fairy tales actually begin and how do they end? Are fairy tales stories that really happened that way? How were fairy tales changed over time and who wrote them down? With great joy, we wrote our own fairy tale. We also read in our reading tandems to practice our reading fluency. We also explored the topic of fall and read fall poems and wrote our own. Furthermore we started to learn about spelling. We had a closer look on words with ck (Brücke, Flocke...) and found a rule that can help us.