Third+Grade

Our team of third grade teachers includes the following staff:

Miss Condran/Mrs. Guelcher jessica_guelcher@pasd.us Mr. Cope kyle_cope@pasd.us Mr. Kelly jonathan_kelly@pasd.us Mrs. Stewart janet_stewart@pasd.us Mrs. Strano susan_strano@pasd.us

**Exciting News from 3rd grade! **

**Principal Sings the GRINCH as 3rd Grade meets their Reading Challenge! **

Principal Hale had to sing the theme song from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in front of the entire 3rd grade! Mr. Hale accepted the challenge from the 3rd grade that if they met their reading goal he would sing. The students meet their goal and Mr. Hale made good on his promise. Armed with a microphone and the stuffed Grinch that had sat on his desk all week for Read Across America Week, he belted out "Your a mean one Mr. Grinch, you really are a heel!" and all the students joined in! Click on the video link below to share in the excitement!

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 * In the month of October the third grade students at Northside, had the opportunity to do a walking field trip to the Palmyra Public Library. At the library students had a chance to check out books themselves and learn how the library operates. The students at Northside have been doing the "Library Walk" since it was first organized by Mrs. Guelcher in 2008. Mr. Cope said, "We have been participating in the library field trip for the past three years now and the kids absolutely love it. It's like the field trips of yester-year where we walk there as a class."


 * For the past two weeks the kids in Mr. Cope’s third grade class have been using the video game SimCity to learn more about geography, communities and economics. “As I was looking at our first unit in social studies, I thought this is a lot like that old Super Nintendo game SimCity. Then I thought, why don’t I [[image:Copeville.jpg width="320" height="240" align="left"]] Nintendo out and take it in?” As his class’s city grew, it gave them the opportunity to talk about why have taxes, why businesses are located in certain areas in a community, and geographical locations.The students also kept track of their progress through the game using graphs. Everyday they charted the populations of their town, and what their popularity rating was with the of their community. Mr. Cope said, “Now I just have to figure out how we can use Super Mario brothers to teach math.” [[image:caydn_sim.jpg width="400" height="300" align="right"]]