Henry vs the 3rd grade

PLG : History I am learning about  the history of Ancient Egypt. They have Pharaohs and their last pharaoh was Cleopatra. Egyptians used to use hieroglyphs to read and write. I am glad that we don't use hieroglyphs because it would take so long to draw all those pictures out.

PLG : Physical Science We excavated crystals from our science kit!

PLG : Area I am learning about finding area

PLG : Knowledge of Language  I am finding consonant sandwiches in words. A consonant sandwich in when there is a vowel in front of and behind a consonant. When you are breaking a word up into syllables, if a word has a consonant sandwich then the consonant usually goes with the second vowel’s syllable.

PLG : Phonics & Word Recognition Today I practiced soft c and hard c and soft g and hard g. You usually make a soft g or c sound in a word when it comes before an I E or Y.

PLG : Global Perspectives  I watched a brain pop jr video and learned about winter holidays. I like that Santa clause has different names in different places. There are a lot of holidays in the winter time. Hanukkah and kwanza. Hanukkah  is a Festival of lights and kwanza celebrates African culture.

PLG : Physical Science  A couple days ago I learned about crystals with my brothers. snow and Ice are technically crystals. they grow in very cold places. sometimes in your back yard. Even salt is a crystal. That is so mind blowing. My favorite crystal in a geode. you find cool little crystals in it when you break it. We are going to do an experiment to grow crystals. I am excited about it, I think were gonna make some cool crystals GEODE TIIGERS EYE 

 Today I watched a Brain Pop Jr video and I learned about counting coins. Every coin is worth a different amount of money. We have pennies dimes quarters and nickels in America. those are the most common coins. When you are counting different kinds of coins you start with the biggest ones first. When you have a lot of one kind of coin you can skip count to count even faster. I'm glad about what I learned and I think it will help me in real life.