Using Our New iPads !!!

3rd Grade is learning how to use a new App we've downloaded for the HTS iPads and it's called Pic Collage.  Each student is creating a colorful collage that will become the cover for their Language Arts binder. This will personalize his or her binder and generate a greater sense of ownership.   Students can decorate their collage with images of their favorite things including:  sports, animals, pets, books, authors, musicians, vacation places, hobbies, colors, foods, etc.  Students can also add words that describe them and may include photos of themselves and their 3rd grade class.  Ms. Skonberg, Ms. Khanijoun and I hope the 3rd Graders have fun with this project!

Welcome Back to School!

Dear 3rd Graders,

I hope you all had a fun-filled summer and that you are excited about coming back to school to see all of your friends -- new one and old ones.  I am looking forward to being your Technology teacher for 3rd Grade!  We have brand new computers in the Lower School lab as well as a number of new iPads for your classroom.  I can't wait to see everyone on the first day of school!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Miller

Planet Pixies and Summer Learning Blog

We will create a Pixie creation of a planet to begin our day, then spend a bit of time exploring the Summer Learning Blog if we finish!



The link to the Learning Blog can be found here:

http://htssummerlearningblog.blogspot.com/

Type to Learn Day

It's been a long time since we've worked on keyboarding, so today I would like you to spend some time working on Type to Learn.  Be sure to use your keyboard covers, and keep your fingers on the home keys.   I'll be looking to give out base hits to those students who keep focused on keyboarding!  

Remember, our password is htstype.

If you keep on-task, at the end of class you may make a choice between Dreambox and Ticket to Read.

http://www.tickettoread.com/

https://play.dreambox.com/login/rgsc/holyts

Acrostic Poems this Morning

For homework last night you completed a draft of an acrostic poem.  This morning, we will use the website readwritethink to turn your draft into a printed masterpiece.  Begin by clicking on the link below:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/

Just follow the directions listed... and make sure I proof it before you print it!

Mrs. Morell

Follow up to the Sant Ocean Hall Exhibit

In order to check your work on the worksheet you completed at the museum this morning, click on the link below. 

http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/ocean_hall/Galleries/introduction.html

If you finish this, you may finish your Puffin project,

Then, do Ticket to Read, Type to Learn or Dreambox!

Puffins!

To tie in with your Language Arts study of "Night of the Pufflings", we will spend some time researching puffins and pufflings using a mini webquest:

You will use the following links to find the answers to your questions:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/atlanticpuffin/



http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Puffinprintout.shtml


http://www.brucemcmillan.com/FRB_PuffinPage.html


You will answer the following questions:

Puffins!
Atlantic puffins are birds that live at _____ most of their lives.	Because of the size of their beaks, Atlantic puffins are sometimes called:
Puffins eat small fish, such as __________ and ______________.	Another nickname for puffins is:
Puffins flap their wings over _______ times a minute.	The Atlantic puffin is about ____ inches long.
Puffins often become mates for:	The Atlantic puffin weighs about_______.
Puffins nesting sites are often found on _____________________ Where the birds and their eggs are safe from predators.	The color of the bill of a puffin is _______, ________, and ___________.
Puffins line their nests with: ________________________ _______________________.	The color of the legs of a puffin are:
The breeding ground for about 60 percent of the world’s Atlantic puffins is:__________________	The main predator of puffins is: _______________________.
The scientific name of the puffin is: _____________ ______________________.	The parents will abandon the puffling, who will leave the nest after about a week to search for ____________.
The Atlantic Puffin may live to be more than ___ years old.	Atlantic puffling population is _____________
Puffins are the provincial birds of _________ and ________.	Their bodies, similar in shape to the Penguins, are wonderful for:
Both parents feed a puffling for about ___ Weeks.	Pufflings are true seabirds because they come ashore to _______ and then spend most of their lives in the___________.