St. Christopher School

More Fall Highlights

Many exciting things are happening in our third grade Science classes. Our mealworms have entered the pupa stage. Many of them are now hatching into adults! Currently, we are creating menu selections for the"Carnivore Cafe" as we learn about different types of consumers in the food chain. Mrs. Labrecque has been playing a catchy little song to help us remember the differences among carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores. We will be visiting some really cool web sites that will let us identify producers, consumers, and parts of the food chain. We will also get to create food chains in an interactive and colorful format.  Later in the month we will begin our unit on the water cycle. We will get a chance to make our own clouds and observe the processes of evaporation and condensation in a jar.

Currently, we are working on subtraction with regrouping in Math. Every morning we visit interactive math sites where we practice our subtraction facts. Later in the month, we will begin exploring multiplication. We will use a computer program called "Easiteach" to come up to the board and illustrate multiplication facts with dozens of pictures to incorporate. We will also begin visiting a wonderful interactie site called multiplication.com which has lots of fun games to reinforce multiplication facts.I highly encourage everyone to check out this site at home as well. We will play games with partners and teams to help learn our facts as well.

In English we have been learning about nouns. During Halloween, we illustrated Halloween nouns. As we learn about possesssives nouns, we will incorporate all that we've learned about capitalization and writing street addresses to create an advertisement for our own store. We will play "What am I" and write clues about nouns for our classmates to guess.

In Religion, we've been learning about the formation of the early Church. Our current chapter talks about early Christians, the apostles, saints, martyrs and people who stood up for their faith. Mrs. Labrecque is encouraging the class to apply this principle in our dealings with one another as well. We will have the opportunity to dress up as our favorite saint when Sister Elizabeth visits again. Later in the month we will learn about the church calendar and illustrate each season.

We just completed wonderful cereal box projects about the exciting books that we read throughout the month. Mrs. Labrecque is very proud to display them around the room. Our next monthly reading project involves making a Christmas Wish List for the main character in the book we choose to read.