Invertebrate Animals Project

In Science, students have been learning about the classification of animals, dividing them into vertebrates (animals with a skeleton) and invertebrates (animals without skeletons). Now that we are learning about invertebrate animals, the sudents have completed projects about different animals and insects that are invertebrates. They made small posters in groups with drawings and some information about the animals. To finish the project, some of the kids have done audio recordings of their projects for you to see below.

Dinosaur Egg Experiment

 Our class dinosaurs, Mr. Rex and Larry, have just returned from an exciting weekend with one of our classmates. They had a great time going out, exploring and learning about the world. Elisa took some wonderful photos of our dinosaurs studying with her and exploring the world outside the classroom.

 

 

 
Congratulations! Our brand new baby dinosaurs have finally hatched from their eggs. Mr. Rex and Larry were born on Tuesday, March 3rd and we´re very excited to have them here.

 Last weekend Angela and Samantha took care of them. They´re growing and growing!!!

During the weekend two students, Mónica and Andrés ,took care of them . They are growing bigger and bigger and both hatched from the eggs!

We´ve started a new project in our Science class to see how animals hatch from eggs but we don´t just have a regular egg, we´ve got a dinosaur egg!

Students have been learning about different types of animals, including reptiles like the dinosaurs and how each type of animal is different. They´ve learned that oviparous animals are ones which lay eggs and that babies are hatched from the eggs. Our dinosaur egg is in water and each day it is growing bigger and bigger and hopefully we´ll soon see what hatches from our egg.

Comparatives and Superlatives

In our current unit in English students have been learning how to compare things based on characteristics. They can say that one animal is faster than another or that one student is taller than another student. In addition, we´ve also been learning the superlatives. We use superlatives in English to say that something is the most of a characteristic like: cheetahs are the fastest animals or Mount Everest is the highest mountain.

To compare 2 things we use the comparative to say something is more of something. We do this by adding -er to the end of the adjective, example: taller, rounder

The superlative is used when comparing 3 or more things to say that one of those things is more of a certain characteristic than the others. We form the superlative by saying something is the (superlative form of the adjective). If the adjective has 1 or 2 syllables we add -est to the end of the adjective, ex: the fastest, the smartest. But, if it has 3 or more syllables we don´t change the adjective, we say the word"most" before it. Example: the most beautiful, the most delicious.

With both the comparative and the superlative, if the adjective ends in "y" we have to change it to an "i" before adding -er or -est.

We´ve included some fantastic web pages with activities and games so your kids can practice comparatives at home with fun games. Click on the links below for the games.

http://www.learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-games/comparatives_and_superlatives

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/comparativessuperlatives-esl-grammar-nature-world-geography-vocabulary-fun-game/

Let´s Celebrate Carnaval!

On Thursday afternoon, CEIP Garcilaso de la Vega celebrated Carnaval with a celebration of films. Both students and teachers came to school dressed up as characters from different films and everyone looked great!

Each grade came dressed up with a different movie as the theme. The 1st grade came as characters from the movie The Box Trolls. 2nd graders came dressed up as Pirates of the Caribbean. The 4th grade students from The Bear. And the 5th and 6th graders as Charlie Chaplin and characters from the movie Hugo.

Our third graders came dressed for the classic film, The Wizard of Oz with lions, tigers and bears, oh my! Check out the great costumes our students wore to celebrate Carnaval.

Everyone had a wonderful time at the school celebration which lasted all afternoon. The party was the perfect way to start the long weekend. We hope you have a fantastic Carnaval weekend too!

Learning About Maps

In Social Science students have learned about the different continents and oceans that make up the Eearth.

We´ve learned that Earth is made up of seven continents (Europe, Asia, Australasia, Africa, North America, South America and Antarctica) and five oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern). We also studied Spain´s geography including its rivers, mountains, and seas.

To show how much they learned in that unit, students worked on projects in small groups making different types of 3D maps including: a map of Spanish rivers and mountains plus maps of the world´s oceans and continents. Here are some photos of just a few of the wonderful projects the kids completed.

Adverbs of Frequency

Here in class we have just learned how to say how often we do something by using adverbs of frequency. The students can now say if they always, usually, sometimes, or never do something or go somewhere. For example, we hope our students always come to school!

We practiced the adverbs of frequency by talking about someone´s schedule by using a calendar. Students also talked about themselves to say what they do during the week or where they go. Some students always play football and others who don´t like football never play. Most students sometimes go to the shopping mall and others usually go to the park.

Today, students have just taken their exam about the adverbs of frequency and we hope they have
studied very hard and did well on the exam!

Welcome to Our New Blog

Hello! We´re happy to introduce you to the brand new blog of Garcilaso de la Vega´s Third Grade class. We´ve been working very hard all year, but we´ve also been having a lot of fun with many different activities.

So far in English we´ve been learning many new things such as adverbs of frequency, present simple, and present continuous. The students are also quickly learning new vocabulary about describing hobbies, animals, and places around town.

In Science the students have learned about different types of maps, how to classify animals, and how to talk about the weather, all in English!

We´ll continue to update the blog with information and photos of the students´ work and activties so that you can see what we´re learning in our class.

Welcome to the Garcilaso Third Grade Class Blog!