Tweetwrite

By Isabella

Did you know our classroom has a twitter wall? We posted our thoughts about Michigan symbols for our first post. One of our post on the wall was by Isabella. She said “I think a symbol expresses something.” Ewan said “I think symbol is something that can be remembered.” “I think a symbol is like a state bird, a state deer, or a state fish” is what Jackson thought. Naeem said “I think a symbol is something that represents things.”

We also posted about bullying on the twitter wall. We watched a video about a girl who was getting bullied. To go with the video we read a book called Say Something by Peggy Moss. In it a girl watched other people get bullied but didn't say anything. We posted on the twitter wall about what we noticed in the video and book. Skylar said “the video made me feel sad for the person being bullied.” Brandon thought “It changed in the book and the video by a kid getting bullied, but this time, someone stood up for her.” Another Thinker said that they were both about speaking up.

So far we have two posts on our Twitter wall, and we look forward to our next posts!

Class Jobs!

By Isabella

We got our first jobs this week!  There are 17 different jobs.  Some jobs have two people doing them each week.  We get paid five class dollars for doing our job, but the substitute gets two dollars every time he or she does their job.  These are three of our jobs: substitute, photographer, and technology captain.

Even though we are in third grade, we still had to fill out a job application.  Ever Friday we get our pay checks.  With the money we get from our jobs we can buy stuff from the class store that opens once a quarter.  We can also buy supplies like pencils and erasers whenever we need them.  Every two weeks we get a new job.  We are excited about our next jobs!

International Dot Day

By Eli

Have you ever herd of International Dot Day? Dot Day is a day where people from all around the world come together and celebrate dots. It is every year on September 15th. I interviewed 5 people and 4 said that dot day was exciting in it's own way. 1 person said it was fun. There's so much to learn about Dot Day!  

To kick it off, we read a story called The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. It's about a girl named Vashti who said she couldn't draw. Her art teacher asked her if the blank paper in front of her was a polar bear in a snowstorm. Vashti said "no, it's blank." Her teacher said you can do something. So Vashti drew a dot in the middle of the paper. The next time she went to art class Vashti saw that her dot was framed and hung it over the teacher desk. Vashti said "I can draw a better dot than that!" She drew big dots and small dots and green dots and red dots and many more dots! One day all the dots were displayed and her dots were everywhere! A little boy was sad because he didn't know how to draw and said he could barely draw a straight line. Vashti told him to draw one, and then sign it, the same way her teacher did for her.

Between us and our buddies, we made enough dots for our own dot museum, just like Vashti in the book! We also got to use a really fun app called colAR to bring our dots to life! They jumped off the screen of the iPad! It was so much fun celebrating Dot Day!

Survey Results: Favorite Brands

Results:

1. 51% of people prefer Nike shoes

2. 3% of the people prefer tank tops

3. 9% of the people like puma socks

Survey Results: Cartoon Characters

In conclusion, out of the people surveyed, 41 people like pokemon. The third pie chart shows that 41% of people like Steve from Minecraft as a brother. The most popular mom is Princess Bubblegum which is 39%. 

Challenge yourself! Here are some questions to answer about the data:

How many more time did Princess Bubblegum get than Nicole from The amazing world of Gumball?

What is the average of votes between the responses?

How many more times did  prof. oak from pokemon get picked Benson from Regular show?

How many gumball fans than penny fans?

Please take our Surveys!

In math, we are exploring different kinds of graphs.  After our bird banding field trip, we created two different graphs based on the information the Nature Center collects every year during bird banding.  Then we decided to create our own graphs, but we needed information to do that!  We got into small groups and picked a topic.  Then we wrote five survey questions about that topic.  Please take our surveys, as we are going to use the information to create and analyze our own graphs!

 

Favorite Singers - created by Ella, Izzy, and Brigette

 

Feelings Survey - created by Riley, Chloe, and Jules

 

TV Survey - created by Cole, Jack, and Liam

 

Sports Survey - created by Blake, Sam, and Daniel

 

Favorite TV Characters - created by Panteli, Miles, and Ian

 

Cartoon Character Survey - created by Jaya, Parker, and Nick

 

Favorite Activities - created by Jordan, Meghan, and Kennedy

 

Brands - created by Jacob, Grant, and Ryan

 

 

Please note that we are asking for location and age but we are NOT collecting names.  We want to see how far across the world people take our surveys, and how old people are who are taking it!

 

Thank you!!

Violence in Video Games