Special Art Project

The Portland Police Chief is having an art contest.  Ms. Yao chose out class to complete the mural with her.  Ms. Yao came to our classroom on Wednesday and then we cut out and made stencils having to do with community.  On Thursday we went to her room and we finished cutting out the things we wanted to make. I made a diamond and a profile of my face.  On Friday morning we went outside to spray paint and I enjoyed it.   We spray painted out stencils onto a piece of paper.  

By Curtis'e

Art With Ms. Yao

By Crystal

This week in art we got a piece of paper and we drew a line for the atmosphere and the earth.  We painted it white and then we put some blue into the white and then we put a whole bunch of blue.  We put some stars in the sky.

Then we put some black in the atmosphere to make space.  Then we let it dry and then we waited another week and painted over it.  A couple people restarted.

Flipagram Watershed

I made a video on flipagram of a couple of photos from our watershed lesson with Megan a couple of weeks ago.

I am hoping to have the kids making these in the future and explain what is happening in the video.  

Check back soon for more videos.

http://flipagram.com/f/LWwqZOidEW

Forest Park

This week we had a normal week but we went to Forest Park.  We played a game to steel nutrients which was pins.  We also went on a nature hike.  One of us fell so we bent our feet. We look at leaves and we picked leaves.  Other then Forest Park we had normal week like Playworks and stuff like that. It was a fun week.

This Weeks Author is Malcolm

Week of October 20th

Busy Week Ahead

Important Information for This Week:

Monday: After the Flush Presentation with Clean Rivers 10:10-11:10
Tuesday: Forest Park Field Trip 9:00-11:30 Free Dress, dress for the weather and hiking
Wednesday: Angela Johnson Author Visit 11:10-12:10

Next Week: NO school  Weds-Fri
Wednesday/Thursday - Conferences
Conference reminders went home on Thursday last week.  If you did not get your look in your child's backpack and then email me and I can confirm your time with you or you can call the office.

Please continue to send in paper, glue sticks and ear bud style headphones if you haven't already.

Is Air Something?

Last Week In Science We Answered The Question: Is Air Something?

Blazers Visit Boise Eliot Humboldt

The Pictures Tell It All

Reading In Science

Science!

This week we learned about a meteorologist her name is Lynn Burse she predicted that a tornado would happen in her town. We read about her in a book called "Tornado!" she has a team and her team learns about weather every day, every day she looks at her computer at a map to see what kind of weather there is. One day Lynn Burse checked on her computer and saw that there was a storm coming her way her team knew that a storm could lead to a tornado.  Burse warned her team and they and she warned the people in their town.  When Burse and her team usually warned the people they warned only for 15 minutes, but this time they warned for 40 minutes. Now the tornado was over but her the people in they're town weren't hurt. This book was about a real life person and how she predicted that there was a tornado. Me and my class did something called citing evidence.  Also we learned something else called close reading that means reading really closely and seeing all the details and facts. We cited evidence in a book we learned how Lynn Burse predicted that there was going to be a tornado. She knew there was going to be a tornado by looking at the map she had on her computer,  Lynn Burse saw that there was a storm and she predicted that there was a tornado because she knew that storms might lead to tornado's.

This Week's Student Writer is MSaylyn

This Week in Room 100!

Student Writer This Week - Precious

Run for BEH
Yesterday we did Run for BEH. First went 5th, then went 4th grade, then went 3rd grade.I ran 7 laps that was higher then I ran last time. Last time I ran 5 laps.  I was so happy that I ran more laps this time. After we are done running we have popsicle just like we do every year.  We did this in kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade and this year.
Citing Evidence
This week we read Alexander That Used to Be Rich Last Sunday.  The question was "How did Alexander and his brothers get along?"  The second question was "If you met Alexander what advice would you give him?"  We learned about "Citing Evidence".  Citing evidence is when you go back in the story and find the evidence to answer the question.


                                  This is our class reading the answers to the questions.

                                  This is the "Citing Evidence" board that we made together.

Our Week

Our Week

by Kamara Simpson

On Monday we started the week of of like every other day with morning work but with a substitute her name is Ms. West. she is very nice. At recess Ms. West left and Ms. Bolger came back. Then we had math and music. On Tuesday we had art. We entered quietly like usual and watched a video about Ms. Yao's friend and how she makes still art into necklaces and jewelry. By the way still art is either art that you sculpture or paint  and it looks like real life. We go to make still life.  We made fruit and we made a plate to put the fruit on.  Th fruit that we used was blueberries, bananas and apples. That was our week.

Important Dates Coming Up

September 11th - Back to School Night 5:30-7:30
September 17th - Late Opening
September 22nd-26th - Spirit Week - (details to come)
September 25th - Run for BEH
September 26th - SUN Registration
October 3rd -  Family Fun Morning,
October 6th - First Day Of SUN School
October 10th - No School

Start To A New Year!

3rd Graders,
I am so excited to see you all soon.  I hope you all had a great summer and have stories to share with us when we return to school next week.  I started setting up our new classroom yesterday and I am so looking forward to the new year.  We moved next door to Ms. Wilke's room in room 100!  The room is much bigger and has so much great light from the big windows.

I want to invite you all to the Back To School BBQ happening this Thursday! The BBQ is from 5-7 PM.  I hope to see a lot of you there.

If I don't I will see you next week either on Tuesday or Wednesday and then we will all be together again on Thursday!

See you soon.  Send me an email if you want.

Mrs. Bolger