Making Andean Musical Instruments!

RES ENRICHMENT and SPANISH PROGRAMS  in collaboration with the FLYNN EDUCATION DEPARTMENT are excited to announce an: AMAZING THIRD GRADE OPPORTUNITY!

After our attendance at the Flynn theater on Monday November 2nd to watch Andes Manta perform,   ANDES MANTA WILL BE COMING TO RES!!!  

 

(photo courtesy of Andes Manta)

The four Lopez  brothers will spend an hour and a half in the afternoon creating authentic Andean musical instruments with our students. Each student will create an instrument to bring home!

This opportunity has been sponsored in part by World Music Record Label, Cumbancha (based in Charlotte Vermont), http://www.cumbancha.com/ and we are very thankful for their support of music and making at RES.  

This is a unique opportunity for students, and we know it will be memorable!  if you are interested in coming to support students as they build and make their instruments (from 1-2:30 on 11/2) please contact Darcie Rankin at darcie.rankin@cesuvt.org.  

 

An Expert Talk #tcrwp

We are soooo lucky!  Katie Webster, a 3rd grade parent AND a published information writer, came in yesterday to share about her writing process.  She shared her cookbook, Maple, with us and even made us a little treat from her cookbook, Maple Sour Cherry Shirley Temples!




 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

We were surprised to learn that she uses some of the same strategies that we use when writing our information books.   For instance, when Katie first started writing her cookbook, she began by writing the Table of Contents.  We were just working on that last week!  She also had to use elaboration strategies to introduce each recipe to her reader...she shared some her favorites and our mouths were watering!  She also shared her struggles with introductions; boy, can we relate!  We'll certainly be referring to her advice as we continue our work in this unit!

Here's just a snippet of what she shared with us!  (Thanks to Mrs. Redford for recording and Mr. Berry for putting together the video!)



A huge thank you to Katie for taking the time from her busy book tour & cooking schedule to come in and talk with us!  We learned a LOT!

A Celebration of Writing! #tcrwp

Last week, we completed our first unit of writing and celebrating by sharing our true, small moment stories.  We invited families and friends to join us in the Library Media Center to share our stories...and listen to those of our peers.  Superintendent Alberghini & Board Chair Mr. Milazzo joined us, too!  What a special day!

Here's a slideshow of our journey throughout this first writing unit:



After the celebration, Superintendent Alberghini shared another of his childhood tales...what a treat!  Here's the story of "Big Bad Bob, the African Bullfrog!"



 

How lucky we are to have a storytelling treasure in our midst!

The Global Read Aloud Begins... #gra15 #grafiat

Today is a very exciting day in 3rd grade!  We're beginning The Global Read Aloud with more than 500,000 other students all over the globe.  A fellow participant created this map to show other classes around the world that are also reading "Fish in a Tree"...we added our pin to the map!



Pernille Ripp, the founder of The Global Read Aloud, has welcomed us to this year's project with this message:



AND...Lynda Mullaly Hunt, the author of our read aloud story has also welcomed us and even read the first chapter of the book to us.  We're sooo lucky and can't wait to start the journey...



Throughout the next six weeks, we'll be following along to a specific plan for The Global Read Aloud.  We don't want to read ahead of our connected classrooms or fall too far behind.  So, if you're following along with us at home, be sure to follow our game plan!  Also, Mrs. Redford has purchased a few extra copies of FIAT for our RES Library that parents will be able to check out...feel free to join us on our Global Read Aloud journey!!

Week 1:  Chapter 1 – 8 (October 5-9)

Week 2: Chapter 9 – 17 (October 12-16)

Week 3: Chapter 18 – 24 (October 19-23)

Week 4: Chapter 25 – 33 (October 26-30)

Week 5: Chapter 34 – 42 (November 2-6)

Week 6: Chapter 43 – end (November 9-13)

 

Mystery Skype!

This morning, we participated in our very first Mystery Skype!!  A mystery skype is when one class meets up with another class somewhere in the world.  Each class asks a series of yes/no questions to try to determine the location of the mystery class.  Because the Skypers can be anywhere in the world, we had to start with a broad question like:  Do you live in the Northern Hemisphere?   Given that answer, we could then ask about the continent, then the country, and so on.

Eventually, with our cunning detective (& geographic) skills, we were able to locate our new third grade friends at Beechwood Elementary School in Fullerton, California!



They are also reading Fish in a Tree for the Global Read Aloud project and we're hoping to connect again in the future!

"Fish in a Tree" Predictions #gra15 #grafiat

The Global Read Aloud begins next week...we're sooooo excited!  This week, we prepared ourselves by thinking about the title of the book (Fish in a Tree), looking at the cover and hearing the quote below from the book to be able to make predictions.

"...a wise person once said, 'Everyone is smart in different ways.  But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it's stupid." (Chapter 29)

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