Last year in grade 2, we wondered if it was possible to live without money? Many said it was, and found evidence during their SOLE investigation to support their reasons. So now, in grade 3 we want to know, Why Work?
What happens when you don't have enough money for the things you want/need?
Can a budget help organize your money? Does it help you get the things you need /want?
Let's try this out. You have $10.00 to spend on school supplies. How will you spend it? What did you get? What was your opportunity cost?
Let's see if we can apply what we are learning in our unit, How We Organize Ourselves to make connections with our local economy using our newspaper, The Plain Dealer.
Central Idea: Economic decisions provide opportunities.
Central Idea: Economic decisions provide opportunities.
Taking what we've learned and creating our own smoothie business.
After spending weeks learning about the different ways we can graph information, we decided to spend a day collecting data during the 3 different lunch/recess periods. We came up with topics we were interested in knowing different opinions on, and decided which age group would be the best to survey for each topic. We created tally charts and set out to collect. Afterwards, we took our data home and turned it into 3 different types of graphs to show our results. We presented our graphs to the class.
The coolest part was comparing the results with our classmates opinions.
This was a fun way to learn about graphs and to find out that there are several ways we organize information.
The coolest part was comparing the results with our classmates opinions.
This was a fun way to learn about graphs and to find out that there are several ways we organize information.
Thank you to our Mandarin teachers for another wonderful Chinese New Year Celebration. We loved the art stations and of course, the dumplings!
Celebrating Dr. Seuss and Read Across America on March 2nd
I am so proud of how far students have come with planning their day and completing weekly reflections. It helps when they see me planning and reflecting each day. They know that these are life skills and we do this to help improve our self-management skills (how we organize ourselves). They see that some days we don't get as much as we hoped done, because life happens. We have to be flexible and pick-up where we left off the next day. Sometimes we completely get off track with our plans...and that's ok.
Everyday we learn, laugh, and love!!
Everyday we learn, laugh, and love!!
Eloise shared her autographed copy of, Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges. What a special way to end our celebration of Black History month through books!
