Your Children Are AMAZING!

Enjoy these images of the most recent round of projects based on creating CIVILIZATIONS!  Be sure to ask your child about the creation of and the presentation of their work.  They were wonderful! 

Exploring New Parts of the World

We started our morning with a fascinating art print presented by Dana Shorter (and assisted by Kate Kehlenbach.)  Thank you for a wonderful lesson for the students!

 "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" by Caspar Friedrich

After recess, the students presented their creative and informative projects about the European Explorers that we have been studying in 3rd grade.  Take a look!

Christopher Columbus

Juan Ponce de Leon

Jacques Cartier

Christopher Newport

  

What's Your Perspective?

We have been focusing on the perspective of others.  We all see things differently, and that is why we don’t always agree.  Imagining the way someone else sees a situation can help us to have empathy and understanding for someone else’s situation.  We've considered the perspectives of different book characters such as Anton, vs the perspective of the rat he was forced to confront.  We also made observations during morning meeting as we imagined the visual perspectives of others in the circle.  As we accepted a gift of dictionaries to our third grade students from a local Rotary Club, we took a moment to think about what it is like to give a gift vs. receiving a gift.  Be sure to ask your child about drawing "perspectives" in art class, too!
 

This week we begin our Explorers unit and will continue to imagine the different perspectives of people long ago. We started our study with a wonderful story, ENCOUNTER by Jane Yolen.  We discussed the possible differences of perspective when European explorers first met the natives living in the Americas.  Enjoy this one!

The Forts are Ready for Reading!