Hearts of Kindness Campaign

Today we created hearts for the Hearts of Kindness Campaign by the Coalition for a Community of Caring. The hearts were created in conjunction with Random Acts of Kindness Week. The students are being asked to reflect on their lives and write down an act of kindness that they did for someone else. Each heart is then stuffed with one of these acts. The hearts will join hundreds of other hearts from a number of towns and hang along the Uxbridge Town Common.

Publishing Party

We have spent time over the past 2 days celebrating our accomplishments on our Personal Narratives. On Monday we shared our stories with the other 3rd graders. On Tuesday we shared our stories with our Room 5 classmates.

Vibes Program

Thank you to the PCC for Funding this fabulous program. Radiant Rita visited our classroom and taught us about Sound Energy. We learned so many things and had such a great time!

Sound Wave Demonstrations 

Making High and Low Pitched sounds

'Seeing' Vibrations

Learning about the parts of the ear.

Our Thank You Tea for Mrs. Lane

Community Meeting

This month's Community Meeting focused on strategies that we can use to help us regulate our emotions so that we are 'Ready to Learn'. The students here are practicing belly breathing with their stuffies. 

My Friend Martin Movie

This week we talked at length about Martin Luther King Jr and the important impact that he had on our world.  We discussed ways that we can make make a difference in the world.  Below is a link to the powerful video that we watched:
My Friend Martin

Sound Test Friday, January 22nd

Sound Test

Test Date: Tuesday, 1/22/2016

·         All sound is a form of energy.

·         Sound is caused by vibrations, a shaking back and forth movement.

·         A sound source creates vibration.

·         A sound receiver detects, responds to, or hears a sound.

·         Volume is how loud or soft a sound is.

·         Pitch is how high (squeak) or low (boom) a sound is.

·         High Pitch: fast vibration (high frequency)
short length
tight tension
Example: Short objects like violin strings vibrate quickly and have a high pitch.

·         Low Pitch: slow vibration (low frequency)
long length
loose tension
Example: Long objects like bass fiddle strings vibrate slowly and have a low pitch.

·         Sound waves need a medium to travel through, such as solids, liquids, and gases (air).

·         Sounds travel better through water than air. Sounds travel best through solids.

·         Being able to tell different sounds apart is called sound discrimination.

·         Be able to give an example of a sound source.

·         Be able to give an example of a sound receiver.

·         Explain the pitch and vibrations of a shorter object compared to a longer object.

·         In our musical bottle experiment, the bottle that made the highest pitch was the bottle with the least amount of water. It vibrates faster than the bottles with more water in them.

·         Be able to label the different parts of the ear: (outer ear, ear canal, 3 bones: hammer, anvil, and stirrup, eardrum, nerves, cochlea).

How the Ear Hears Sound Video

How the Ear Hears Sound