Mohonasen Central School District
Pinewood Intermediate School
901 Kings Road
Schenectady, NY   12303

Welcome to the Grade 3 Web Site for Pinewood Intermediate School

We are off to another exciting year at Pinewood School.  We offer restricted internet access to our students to add to or show what you are learning this year. As you study different units in class this year, we will add information about them to our site.

Here is a great resource for teachers and parents.  Here's another great resource for students at school and at home.

SCIENCE

Our first link of the year is the nine planets tour, just for kids version.  NASA sponsors a site about the solar system named Star Child.  You may also want to look at the Hubble Space Telescope's Public Page.  Click here to see some special images of the moon. Here is a site that describes the phases of the moon. Space Day is just around the corner.

Bill Nye the Science Guy provides a resource related to the PBS show and science projects you can try at home.

You may follow all the links in this site entitled, Plant Growth and Development.  

Would you like to learn more about the Monarch butterfly? Click here.  Here are events and images of the change from caterpillar to monarch.  Go on a web trek and travel From Egg to Butterfly.  

Click here to read a brief explanation of the respiratory system.  Click here for an introduction to the circulatory system. What is the cardiovascular system? View an overview of the skeletal system.  Learn about the nervous system.  Label the organs with this interactive human organ builder.

Test your knowledge of polar animals.

A mastodon was found in western New York State.  Go to this site to see many photos of what was found during the excavation.  Follow your teacher's instructions carefully, so that you click on the best photos and information from the mastodon "dig".

Rock hounds teaches you how rocks are formed.  Did you know that you have minerals in your house?  

Read an online story about the water cycle.

Click here to go to a page that includes more healthy body topics.

Weather is usually a fourth grade topic, but some of our students will hear a presentation by Steve Caporizzo, WTEN-TV meteorologist.  To help prepare, here is a site you may want to visit:  Scholastic's Weather Watch.  Learn more about winter storms.  Follow the link (Interactive Weather Maker) at the bottom of this page to create your own winter storm.

Writing an animal report?  Try this graphic organizer.  

Read about precious gems and buried treasure.  

Learn more about the Rainforest.  Watch a slide show about the Rainforest.

Learn more about animal habitats around the world.


SOCIAL STUDIES

Test your knowledge of politics and the upcoming election.

Click here to go to the website for your social studies text book.

October is fire safety month.  Click on the parts of the fire truck to learn what each does.  Learn about home fire safety and find the hazards in this room.  

Click here to read about the history of Thanksgiving.   How much turkey history do you know?  Try your hand at a turkey game.   Maybe you can try a new holiday recipe.   Test your funny turkey bone with these jokes.  Take a visit to Plimoth Plantation.   Scholastic has created a cornucopia of Thanksgiving information.  Learn some more Thanksgiving games you can play. Which ones do you think were played by the original Pilgrims?

Click here to visit Ellis Island.

If you need to practice your Social Studies facts related to the United States, play the game at this website.  If you make a mistake, the correct answer is explained to you.  

Third graders study communities in the United States. A good site to check out is the Alaskan Iditarod site.

During January, we will be studying about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Click here to view a timeline of his life. If you click on each picture, you will see a larger version of the picture along with a caption.

Harriet Tubman was a strong woman who helped slaves travel the Underground Railroad.  Take your own virtual trip on this railroad.

Click here for the link to the Abraham Lincoln research site. The treasure hunt contains much information about Lincoln's life. Think you know many facts about Lincoln? Try this quiz about this great president. View a picture gallery of sites from Lincoln's life. Take a virtual tour of Lincoln's home.

Match the coin to the correct US President.  Match the bill to the correct US President.

Click here to see an animation of the US from 1650 through 1907.

Click here to learn about the branches of government.  Practice your skills on the 3 branches of the national government.

Click here to read about the Shaker style.  

Election Day is in November.  Learn about the election process.  

You can view the interactive US National Topographic map here.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

Listen to Cinderella online and explore elements of a good story.  Folk and fairy tales help us to learn more about our world. You may need an adult to help you read some of these tales.

Check your spelling skills with this spelling game. Try another spelling and sentence game. Need to brush up on your grammar skills? Try this fun game to practice recognizing nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.  Let this hungry frog help you review your letters!  Alphabet circus, Spell-A-Puzzle and What am I? help you to review beginning sounds.  This picture dictionary is organized by beginning sounds and will help you to learn both vowel and consonant sounds.  

Do you need help learning the short and long vowels?  These stories will help.  

Go to this page for several different games that will help you to learn letters, sound out words and make sentences.  PBS Kids' has many activities from a program called, Between the Lions that you can do online.  

Listen to a reading of the poem, The Owl and the Pussycat.  

Make your own reading bookmark.

Read about precious gems and buried treasure.  

MATH

Pick the math topic you need to practice (Warning:  the money used is Canadian). 

Crack the math code.  Test your speed with "Multiplication Station."

You can try some challenge activities for math--easier and harder.  

Here is a site you can visit to get some resources on our math program, Everyday Math. 

PBS Kids has a new TV show called Cyberchase.  You can try some of the problem-solving games from the show online.  Here are some math games from England.  Choose a math activity from Max's Math Adventures.  Here are some online addition flash cards.  This site has different multiplication games. 

Do you know how to make change? Try this.  

Spring is coming, so try math baseball.

If you need help matching numbers, click here. 

Need some extra practice with math facts?  Create your own worksheet here.

Here is some math practice you can do at home. These are rainforest-related math activities.  

Try the Fantastic Four game for a challenge.  

Play Snakes and Ladders to practice addition.  

Create your own math problems!

RESEARCH / TECHNOLOGY

Practice your keyboarding skills at home.  Here are more sites for online typing.  Not tired of typing yet?  

HOLIDAY TIME

Halloween--Make the witches fly using Microworlds Logo!  See Mrs. Plant for the activity worksheet.  Find the hidden creatures as you listen to the clues.

Explore the ghosts in this castle from the 1300s.  Read this slightly spooky Halloween story.

Halloween math word problems and more word problems.  Read a pumpkin graph.  

Chanukah--Visit the virtual menorah during the holiday. What is Chanukah?

Christmas--Play games at Northpole.com.  Write a letter to Santa!  Here is another site to write a letter and learn about letter writing at the same time!  With Mom or Dad's permission, you can send a holiday post card to someone.  Here are some holiday games you can play on the computer.  How about some more holiday games?  Do you know the Christmas songs?  How about building a snow village?  

There are two elves that need to dress up for Christmas with beautiful dresses and winter coats, boots, and hats.  After you dress your elf,  create stories about the elves, where they are going in their wonderful costumes, what their names are and what they do at the North Pole.

Find the hidden pictures in this winter theme.  

Play the St. Patrick's Day Money Math game.

Want to create something special for your family?  Click here to go to the HP Activity Center and find just the right project!

SUMMER FUN

Create some mad libs with the help of Kratt's Creatures.  Read some fun facts from the Library of Congress.  Learn new words in a foreign language.  This site will help you learn to speak Spanish.  Here is a lengthy list of foreign language dictionaries that are available online.  Say hello to people all over the world in their native language.  

Check out some of the activities at Black Dog, a site for children.  There are great activities at:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/gameswheel.html.  Play "Save the Egg," based on March of the Penguins.  If you want a more challenging game, play "Antarctic Adventures" from National Geographic. 

Learn about pests in our environment.

Create landscape art!

Check out all the activities at pbs kids.  Can you say, "I know that?" (a game site that has many educational and fun games.) 

Here are some excellent games from the BBC (British Broadcasting Company).  Remember, in Britain the metric system is used, so that may change some of your answers.  

Here are challenging math activities to keep you busy!  Compare your math skills with other kids around the world. 

Try an interactive spelling bee.  Choose your grade level and get started!  Try this "Word Wiz" game.  

Do you want to learn to speak French?

Summer fun games! Logic games from Superkids.  

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