Third Grade Present Their Work at the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival!

Third graders worked hard to prepare for their Mid Autumn Moon Festival presentation, which took place on Thursday night.

As the leaves changed color outside our window, we learned about this important Chinese festival and the related cultural traditions through research, performances, interactive lessons and projects in class and in resource classes. 

In class, students worked hard to research the moon and write beautiful poems about the moon.

 In science, Rasheeda led us in many fun and interesting activities in science including creating models of the moon phases, playing Moon Phase Twister and even using Oreos to create the phases of the moon!

In Espanol, students wrote a diamanté poem as a class.  They learned a lot of new Spanish vocabulary while creating their poem as they thought about how the moon moves and what objects it reminds them of.

In art, Amanda taught the students many new things about Chinese art.  They also made beautiful lanterns and some intricate geometric designs.

As third graders read their poetry in both English and Spanish and shared their music, facts and movies they had created, their confidence in
themselves and their knowledge about this important Chinese holiday was clear.