Category: 3rd Grade

Poetry Centers Work!

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Today I did poetry centers! I love poetry and I will be showing you my favorite poem that I read this week, and a picture of the poem that I drew, that I chose for Poetry Centers.

I liked the poem because its really funny and it reminds me of my cousins dog.

Mother Doesn’t want a dog    -by Judith Viorst-

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Mother doesn’t want a dog.

Mother says they smell,

And never sits when you say sit, 

Or even when you yell. 

And when you come home late at 

night, and there is ice and snow, 

You have to go back out, 

because the dumb dog has to go.

 

Mother doesn’t want a dog, 

Mother says they shed, 

and always lets the strangers in, 

and barks at friends instead. 

And do Disgraceful things on rugs, 

And track mud on the floor, 

And flop upon your bed at night, 

And snore there doggy snore.

 

Mother doesn’t want a dog.

She’s making a mistake.

Because, more than a dog, 

 I think she will not want this snake!

About Izzy and Layla my Cats!

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I have 2 cats Izzy and Layla! Layla is a cat, and Izzy is a kitten. They are different breeds, Izzy is a tabby Tuxedo, and Layla is a brown tabby. They both like to play a lot, but Izzy loves to play! Layla on the other hand likes to sleep more. Izzy goes every ware in the house and Layla likes to stay under the living room couch. Layla Is more of a calm shy cat, and Izzy is more of a playful and outgoing kitten. Layla’s favorite foods are wet food, dry food, cat nip, and cat treats. Izzy likes wet food, cheese, chicken, and cat nip. Cat nip is a thing cats love to smell, but our cats like to eat it! Layla loves to sleep under the couch, and Izzy loves to sleep under beds, in the cat house, or on my bed. (: And I love both of my cats so much! They were both rescued from the adaption center! and I hope from this, now you know a bit about my cats! Bye, bye… P.S hoped you liked my blog post! And if you liked it, then comment!

Maglev #2

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My group did fantastic! We did lots of experiments, and tries and we were doing very well. We used mostly strip magnets and 2  donut magnets, with tape. We used the strip magnets on the track like a track, and we put the donut magnets on the wall of the box.

 

On the train car we put only strip magnets on the bottom of it, lined up together with the magnets on the track. The strip magnet made the train car levitate, because the strip magnet was facing north and the train car was facing north, so they were both repeling each other.   

 

We actually did not really fail, but some stuff was very tricky. One of the things I thought was tricky, was when our group’s train car was not levitating and we did not know why.  We made lots of changes and we succeeded. It was so fun and I did learn really cool things. And when we tried the tricky stuff, we would think of ideas to do instead. 

 

I’m hoping to make better changes for my next design, and work better and do better. And if my group and I do better, we can have more fun, and learn more! 

Maglev # 1

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A maglev train is a train that is repeling from its tracks. ( Like a magnet ) My groups idea was, we should tape a magnet to every side of the train track, except  that on the sides of the train that is facing the train the magnets are repelling the train.

 

  We tried that out and it… Worked! Two other times we tried it did not work, but this time it did! We used these magnets: strip magnets, donut magnets, and circle magnets.

 

 When we tried to make the maglev train the first time, of course, did not work but we improved the train and then it work we did.(: we tried moving the magnets. And it did not work then, so we knew that the last time worked! It was so fun!

Electromagnet VS permanent magnets!

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I learned that electromagnets are different than permanent magnets. Example: electromagnets are only magnets when something is attached to it from a wire. But permanent magnets are permanent. So they are always a magnet. Like when you try to attach paper clips to an electromagnet that is not attached to a battery, (or something) then it will not attract. If you try and attach a permanent magnet to a paper clip it will attracted!! That’s an example of how an electromagnet and a permanent magnet are different.

 

The questions I have are here: How does a permanent magnet, start as a magnet? Why don’t a electromagnet, start not a magnet, and a permanent magnet does? Why do magnets not attracted when they are both facing the same side? And those are my questions. (:

The Science Experiment

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I had a science experiment!!! We did a very fun thing.We worked with our science team, we made a bolt into a magnet. We used a bolt, an electromagnet, a battery, a  insulated wire, a battery holder, and at the end, we used paper clips.

So first we took the bolt and raped the wire, on the bolt. Then we took, the extra wire and attached it to the battery, ( the battery is in the battery holder. ) Then we took paper clips and attached them, to the battery to test them to see if the bolt was a magnet. And my team made a… Magnet!!!!!!

Then the class had a challenge, we had to try and attach 10 paper clips to the magnet!!!!! BUT my team attached 23 magnets! It was so fun!!!!

I learned that you can use a battery to make a peace of metal that is NOT a magnet, into a magnet!!! ( It was so fun. )

What I Learned About Magnets

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I learned that magnets have two sides. One side is North, the other side is South. If the North side is touching  another magnet on the South side, they would stick together. If the South side is touching another magnet, but the other magnet is also facing South, then those two magnets will not stick together. In fact those magnets will try and push away from each other.

And magnets can be very strong, they can be so strong you can’t pull them of from sticking to each other. ( but those are just SOME magnets not every magnet. )

And that’s a few things I learned about magnets!!! And also we did a fun activity with magnets. Each table had a stations that had to do with magnets. One station ( my favorite station ) was about iron dust, like in the photo.

And other stations were testing magnets, and building magnets, and lots of cool stuff!!!!! But at the end when we were cleaning up, some people were cleaning and some people were not. But still, I had a fun time and it taught me a lot of cool stuff!!!!!