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In Sport, our big topic this semester was gymnastics.
We learned:
Das Rad (wheel), die Rolle (roll), die Kerze (candle), die Standwaage and den Handstand (the handstand). In the end everyone had to combine 3 or 4 elements and show them.

We’ve already started with our new topic: rope skipping and ball coordination.
We started with the basic jumping technique and are now working individually on different levels. The goal is to improve the number of jumps you can make without stopping.

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Volume and capacity song

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Inspired by Connie Schofield-Morrison's I Got the Rhythm, we're creating a steady beat. We've choreographed a dance that uses the beat. We're practicing keeping the rhythm. We can wait to show you our dance in the Spring Celebration on Tues, July 13!

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In April, guest artist Brinda Guha visited to teach us about Khatak, a form of Classical Indian dance. Our studies of Khatak closed out our storytelling theme in dance.

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Quinton and Julia presenting their collaborative fairytale, “Johnny the Rhino.”

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Once upon a time, in a land called Brooklyn, there was a third grade class hard at work, writing fairytales.

We’ve been making our way through all of the classics, from Cinderella to The Little Mermaid. Examining the main elements of what makes a fairytale: Heroine/villain and the theme of good vs evil, use of magic, conflict & resolution, moral or lesson and of course “living happily ever after.” For writers workshop, we’ve used this as the inspiration for creating our own fairytales including adaptions, collaborative and originals. We will have our publishing party June 8th and would love to have families join us in celebrating everyone’s hard work.

Misplace your keys or phone, can’t find the pets toys anywhere? Have no fear, third grade can solve the mystery in a flash. We’ve been doing our due diligence to identify and examine all the clues and  discover the qualities of a great detective, while strengthening our problem solving and critical thinking skills.

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In Social Studies we’ve traveled to the distant lands of India to explore the rich history and culture of South Asia. Through the use of stations, we’ve had the opportunity to explore dance, fashion, architecture and get a taste of India’s flavorful food, even curating a restaurant menu of our own. Next week we will prepare Chana masala and chai from scratch.

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Our future scientists have successfully completed our weather and climate unit, examining global climate and weather patterns, water cycles, natural hazards and disasters. If you need to know whether or not to pack an umbrella, consult with your local third grade meteorologists. As we move into last and most complex unit, forces and motion, we will have the opportunity to explore and make use of the science lab and perhaps conduct an experiment of our own!

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We spoke about Adjectives and their comparative as well as superlatives. We made sentences like: "Emma ist groß, Ida ist größer, Frau Sandler ist am größten."

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How tall am I? How tall am I in meters? How tall am I in inches?

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our measure scale shows both

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3rd Grade has been hard at work learning how to play the Ukulele! We've worked on learning some basic technique, reading chord notation, and how to play some basic chords. Most of all we've been practicing our song for the Spring Performance! We hope to see y'all on June 13th for the show!

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After we finished our Hundertwasser paintings, we started to talk about his very unique architecture. His buildings don't look like any other buildings we've ever seen. Every floor looks so different from another and the roof often looks like an onion. The buildings are so colorful ans special. We drew our own Hundertwasser-buildings. Come and check out our Hundertwasser-village at the art exhibition on Tuesday, May 30!

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The students after their Poster Presentations about MI FIESTA DE CUMPLEAÑOS.

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The third graders learned about family members (La Familia) and family celebrations such as birthday parties (La Fiesta de Cumpleaños). After that, they made beautiful Posters illustrating their dream birthday parties and present them
in class. The students describe their parties using verb tener and the correct articles to present nouns. Besides learning a lot of vocabulary related with these topics, we continued  practicing gender and number agreement using verb ser in singular and plural (es and son).
We now have began a new unit and are learning  more vocabulary related to school supplies and musical instruments as well as routines and school activities. We are practicing more dialogues to ask about the existence of an object using verb haber and  Cuántos (How many). We will listen music from different Spanish speaking countries such as flamenco, ranchera, tango, cumbia and learn their country of origin.
Finally our last Project will be about the Special People in our lives. The students
will explain the things they do learning different verbs in Spanish. We will then  practice the conjugation of AR, ER and IR ending verbs in third person singular.

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Work in progress: Eloise, Emma and Julia designing their posters and labeling objects and family members.

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In ethics we spoke about friendship and how we can improve our friendship skills to make our class community even bigger and brighter.

We also spoke about being different and how this will open up new opportunities. The book we are reading is called "Irgendwie Anders" which is about an animal that doesn't look and act like other kids. We spoke about how the characters feel and if we had similar situations in our life.

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After we finished with the unit about our body and the senses, we started to talk about water. What is water? Why do we need water and what for? How does the water that we drink get clean? Why can water be liquid but also frozen and steamed? We are so excited to find out about all these questions.

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In Mathe we learned how to use kilograms and grams and how to convert them. We used a scale to measure how much our things weight.
We also spoke about length: kilometer, meter, centimeter and millimeter.
We repeated our half-written multiplication and will continue with the division as well.

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In German we spoke about typical German sayings: we discovered: some sayings you can translate literally into English but some are slightly different. We discussed the meaning of the sayings and how it's different from what they literally mean.

We also spoke about using a reading diary as a method to process what we read and also our feelings.

For grammar we learned how to use literal speech in our stories as well as the punctuation marks.

For the rest of the year we will work on parts of the speech.

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How much is a millimeter, a centimeter, a decimeter, a meter and a kilometer?

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Elena and Leigh wind proofing their home. 

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What is the difference between length in Germany and in America?