Preparing Hearts Units 2-3

In Unit 2 we studied Noah's Ark. Ellie's second History Project was a rainbow. We mixed the primary colors of red, yellow and blue to get the secondary colors orange, green, purple and indigo. She loves to paint so this was a favorite project!

In Unit 3 we studied the Ice Age and her History Project was cave art. We used a crumpled up paper bag to draw and paint a bull and a woolly mammoth. The other day was beautiful so we sat outside for our reading.

With our new curriculum, Ellie is starting to learn cursive letters. She has been so excited that she learned to write her name in cursive. She has been practicing it a lot! :-)

Preparing Hearts Unit 1

Ellie is doing a great job in 3rd grade! Her first History Project was a shield of faith. We researched what a coat of arms is and she made symbols of faith and colored them on the coat of arms to make a shield.
We have been learning about the ice age and learning Psalm 1 and poems from Robert Louis Stevenson. Each day we draw something or she writes a paragraph about what we are studying. We have drawn many animals, Noah's Ark and the Tower of Babel. She learns 3 new vocabulary words a week from her reading. She writes the definition, a sentence and draws a picture. Then, she files them in alphabetical order.

Ellie's work has always been project and mastery based which means she has to write about what she is learning or do a project to show what she has learned. In subjects such as math and english, we do the problem or question until she gets it right and understands it. Most of her subjects are still like that and daily work in math and english is still mastery based but this year we started grading Ellie's math and english tests. She has gotten all A's!!

Each week Ellie does a Science Notebook entry. We have been reading about the animals and plants on the Arctic Tundra. This week Ellie had to draw, color and label a mammal, bird, fish, amphibian, (vertebrates), and an invertebrate, protist, menora, and plant.