Saint Maur celebrated International Day before heading off to Spring Break. Students had the opportunity to dress in a way that represented a country important to them. The school community was treated to various performances and activities throughout the day. 3G parents volunteered to lead games, crafts, and a delicious potluck lunch. The day was an outstanding celebration of our various cultural heritages and of our ability to collaborate to create memorable experiences for our children.

We are coders now! Third graders are now in their coding unit in Computer Science. We use block coding to create games, edit music, and solve problems. This is one of the most popular units of the study in the whole curriculum. There is so much focus and engagement in the room.

3G celebrated Valentine’s Day a bit early on Friday, the 13th. 💝 Students wrote sweet messages to each other to celebrate what awesome friends and classmates we have in this class.

There was plenty of energy – and sugar from chocolate! – to propel us through the afternoon.

We work hard in 3G. Students work individually, with partners, and in small groups to learn, teach others, and to make deeper connections.

Here students are helping partners revise their writing.

We went outside on a beautiful day in December for a math scavenger hunt. This helped us practice arrays, area models, and multiplication and division word problems.

…and here is a just-because picture. “Will you take a selfie with us, Mr. Geyer?”

Before the Christmas Break, 3G ventured out on their first excursion of the year to the Tutankhamen Museum in Yokohama.

The trip leaving campus and heading out into the city was fun by itself!

At the museum we explored many artifacts from King Tut’s era. There was a lot of shiny gold! ⚱️

There was time for mixing original scents at the Oil of Osiris station. We even played on the playground!

Our class started off the Christmas season with the Elementary Christmas Production. Before the concert that evening, we created some original decorations, set up a Christmas tree, and decked the halls! (Well, the classroom at least, and a bit of the hallways…)

We performed together on stage with 3T. Everyone was quite nervous backstage.

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On the last day of school before the big break, we had a giant Christmas party for all 3rd graders. There were crafts, games, music, dancing, yoga, and lots of food! Many parent volunteers combined efforts to make it a truly fun and memorable event. Thank you, parents!!

3G wrapped up the Shake It! unit and started the Temples, Tombs, and Treasure unit in IPC at the end of the semester. These units are always student favorites.

Third graders made their own butter from cream and even ate it with breadsticks! 🧈

Later, students designed and crafted their own whisks that they used to froth up milkshakes!

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After that, it was time to begin studying Ancient Egypt, a fascinating civilization. 3G and 3T worked together to explore the sights, sounds, scents, and feelings of living in Egypt millennia ago.

Here is the information for how to dress during the last week of school preceding the Christmas Break. Third grade will go to the Tutankhamun Museum on Monday, December 8th, so we will not follow the dress up guide for Monday, but we can participate in the rest of the week.

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October 31st was a wild day in 3G! 🎃 We started the morning with a Halloween Game Show hosted by the Elementary School Student Council. There was a chance for two members of 3G to play a game on stage. (We won!)

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Butter!

Later in the day, we experienced one of the best days of the IPC curriculum… making butter! Students combined their knowledge of the scientific method, milk, and states of matter to culminate in a shaking, dancing, rollicking class of turning cream into butter. Of course, we ate it with breadsticks, too.

To celebrate filling the marble jar, students decided to have a stuffed animal celebration. Each student -and Mr. Geyer, too – brought a favorite stuffed friend from home. Usually toys are not allowed at school, but for one special day of celebration, we made an adjustment to the rules.

We played together.

The stuffed animals helped us with our school work.

We introduced our stuffed friends to the class.

We had a crazy dance party.

We finished the day quietly by watching some Toy Story shorts with our toys.

What a fun day!!