HyperStudio

We had a most pleasant Monday.

Today we started on a new story in Reading called “The Boy who didn’t Believe in Spring.” It’s a strange tale of a child named King Shabazz and his friend Tony Polito. These two boys seem to live in someplace like the Bronx. King claims he does not believe there is any such thing as spring. But when he’s told that it’s just around the corner, he decides to literally go around the corner in search of spring. In doing so, he finds signs of spring – flowering bulbs and a robin’s nest – in an abandoned car in a vacant lot.

We also did more work on our Machine composition. Today we planned how the machine would malfunction, and groups showed us their machines using only the Kodaly syllables and motions. Tomorrow we’ll add instruments. In Tech Center, we started on a major project in HyperStudio. For those of you unfamiliar with this application, HyperStudio is a multimedia authoring system for presenting information.  Text and pictures are put on electronic “cards” which are then dynamically linked to other cards to move around the “stack.” It’s a little challenging program for third graders, but our students are more than up to it! Mr. Merkelson was quite pleased by how well they did.

In PE, we practice kicking using a kind of relay game. It was fun, though some of the goalies gave a little more help than they should have…. Math is review for the quarter test which will be on Wednesday.

Homework:  (1) Study spelling list 10. (2) Finish the rough draft on the second city plant or animal. (3) Do the math packet. They had ample time to start this in class.