In our Visual Journals, we did our four squares drawings to show our progress with our drawings. Students wrote their names 5 times, did a self portrait, drew a house and also drew a cat through guided drawing. Students were encouraged to add more details to their drawings. We painted tree branches using stamps made out of cardboard and spaghetti to give our evergreen trees a realistic effect.
We revisited adaptation/migration/adaptation again and looked closely at all the animals in Jan Brett's The Mitten. We continued adding to our KWL (Know, Want to Know, Learned) chart as well and were able to answer a few questions we have learned about already. For example, one of our wonders was "what is the difference between hares, rabbits, and bunnies?" We learned that hares change colors, are larger, and have longer ears. Rabbits do not change colors and bunnies are smaller rabbits.
We also made a graph together using the animals and our pictures to think about and document what animal we are most interested in learning about. Finally, we learned another new math game called, "Number Yahtzee." In this game, we roll 2 dice, count the number of dots, and crossed out the numbers on our boards. We kept rolling and crossing until all numbers were covered.
With our wonderful grade 3 buddies, we decorated Valentine's Day bags to hold all our Valentine's Day cards. We also enjoyed music, gym, and centers, where we explored different valentines day centers.
