Observing Crayfish

Smart Board Highlights

Here we are practicing identifying adjectives.  We are trying to use better describing words in our writing to make our stories more interesting!

Ashaway Grange Donated Dictionaries

 Superintendent Ricci introduces the ladies from the Ashaway Grange

The Ashaway Grange donates dictionaries to all third grade students in the Chariho School District each year.  The dictionaries are a valuable tool to our students as they are learning how to use a dictionary properly in third grade.  The children have already used their dictionaries during our writing and reading lessons.

IPEVO Document Camera

We are having fun using the IPEVO camera to observe our crayfish up close and personal.  We observed the crayfish behavior on the Smart Board.  The IPEVO software allows us to magnify the image 3X so we can observe the details.  After observing them for a while we took a picture of the crayfish.

Here is a photo of a crayfish shedding.  One of our large crayfish shed his skin.  A few days later it turned orange after being exposed to the air.

Smart Board Highlights

In this picture a student moves the pictures in the proper order to show the life cycle of a plant

 

  Now that we are studying up to the nine table in multiplication, we made our math games more challenging and competitive.  These interactive games make learning our tables more fun!

IPEVO Document Camera

Thanks to the PTO we have an IPEVO document camera that can magnify just about anything you want onto the SMART board.  We used the camera right away in science class to magnify and observe the seeds we are germinating.  You can then take a picture of it by pressing an icon on the Smart board and it saves it right to your picture file on the computer!  Can't wait to use this camera when the crayfish and beetles come in!  We love technology!!  

Learning More About Seeds

    We are continuing our study of seeds by watching the germination of bush beans, corn, peas and sunflower seeds.  We placed seeds in a seed sprouter and the students put some seeds in mini-sprouters.  We used water to keep the seeds moist.  We soon saw the seeds swell and lose their seed coat.  Then a root pushed through and eventually we had a stem and some small leaves.  We also opened up a bean seed to find the embryo inside.

     We are now growing some bean plants hydroponically!  We used six of our bush bean seedlings and placed them on a raft in just water with nutrients added.   We will chart the growth of two of these plants and watch them go through through the life cycle.