Mr. Dehne's Third Grade Classroom

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3rd Grade
Classroom Newsletter
September 21, 2018

Up and Coming Events

Picture Day!

When?:
Wed., Oct. 3

Where?:
Gymnasium

Please bring a picture package slips on or before Wednesday.

Early Release

When?:
Fri., Sept. 21 @ 12:35 pm

Please bring a permission slip or call the office if your child is getting picked up on this day.

3rd Grade Classroom

Science- Our focus for science will be on our Earth's weather. In this lesson, students will look at air, air temperature, air pressure, and discuss how it moves.

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Activity 1: Repeating Rosie - Students play a life-sized board game called Rosie’s Runtime. The teacher plays the role of a robotic dog. Students work in groups of 4-6 to program the dog to move through a maze by making a sequence of instructions out of playing cards. A special Repeat command can be used to enclose a set of cards in a loop that repeats a number of times as designated by the programmer. This activity helps students build programming skills such as putting steps in the correct order and giving complete instructions.

Social Studies- The students will learn more about their community and our laws. Students will look more at their community and laws around them.

4th Grade Classroom

Science- We are focusing how the Earth moves around the Sun and how the Moon moves around the Earth. We will focus on various vocabulary words, like rotate, revolve, axis, and orbit. Also, students will find that the Sun affects us in multiple ways and how the Moon changed phases.

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Activity 1: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces - In this activity students learn about forces and describe the motion of an object with balanced or unbalanced forces. Students also ask questions engineers may ask when gathering information about a situation involving balanced and unbalanced forces.

Social Studies- We are focusing on various parts of a map, such as latitude and longitude, and how to use them. We began with knowing the seven continents, four oceans, the equator, and the prime meridian.

5th Grade Classroom

Science- This week, the 5th graders discussed how solar radiation affects the various temperatures and climates on Earth. Students learned how the 23.5 degree tilted and its rotation around the Sun also influences these factors as well.

PLTW
Activity 1: Germs, Germs Everywhere - In this activity students will observe how germs can spread as they trace the path of a mysterious classroom infection. Students will play a version of the classic game Seven Up. Unbeknownst to them, one of the students in the game has been exposed to a glowing simulated germ. As the game progresses, this germ spreads. It will be up to the class to determine patient zero, the initial patient in this outbreak.

Social Studies- The class learned about the various landforms throughout the United States. These ranged from the Sierr-Nevada Mountains to the Atlantic Coastal Ranges. Student then chose two famous landforms in the United States to find more information about to make a type of presentation to discuss in class. We will be finishing and presenting these this next week together.