My kids wrote all over the desks!

Look at this amazing trick that Ms. Adams showed me last year! Can you believe that I actually encourage my students to write  on their desks?!?! The kids get so excited to do word problems now during math as well as other work. Besides making classwork more fun, this is more "green", too.

We went to Gold Flats and built towers

Over the past few weeks we have visited a made-up town called Gold Flats. The students have learned why it is so important to have rules/laws in a community. Earlier this week, we had a Readers' Theater and the students got to play the role of the jury to decide which character was doing the right thing. I must say, that this is one tough jury!

We are also learning concepts for multiplication. Today the students got to build towers to relate skip-counting with multiplication. I love how they all work so well together!

All About Me (Part 3)

We finished up sharing our Me Collages today. I seriously have enjoyed getting to know all about my teammates this way!

 

 

Dictionaries from the Rotary Club

Every year the LR Rotary Club donates dictionaries to third graders throughout the city. I look forward to this every year because I LOVE watching the students' reactions when they get their very own dictionaries. I know it sounds so simple, but they have so much fun looking up different words. But the bonus is that the alphabet for sign language and the "longest word" are in there. I've been teaching 3rd grade for seven years now and I still haven't been able to figure out the word!

McKenzie was selected to model how to look up a word and its definition. She did a great job!

The ladies from Rotary always read fun books to the group, too.

 The kids lining up to get their very own dictionary...



Thank you, Rotary Club, for our dictionaries!

All About Me (Part 2) and just a typical day

Here are a few more of my teammates sharing their "Me Collages"...

Mary Kate loves Uno!

Luke showed an "action shot" of him jumping into his pool.

Jack, our hunter, shared great info. about his family!

Destin did a great job talking about his family!

Chloe did a great job talking about her favorites.

Ava is our little entrepreneuer. She wants to be in charge of Arbonne when she grows up. ;)

After everyone got a chance to share their Me Collages, the kids got to participate in a fun Readers' Theater. Then they got to partake in a very important event...voting to decide who will win in the Razorback games.

As you can see, there are way more Hogs than Lobos! I've got a very smart team!

All About Me

We began the year by reading Judy Moody. We learned that she's always in a mood! After learning about her from her "Me Collage" that she had to do for school, the students had to create their own "Me Collage". I enjoyed getting to learn more about all of my students this way! Plus, it was fun to watch them present! Here are a few of the presenters from this week:

Elizabeth gave us a little history of where her family was from.

Giovanni loves football, especially the Raiders!

Giada showed off some of her artistic talent.

Devanshika talked to us a little bit about her Indian culture.

Allissa showed a beautiful illustration of her home.

Cooper talked about how big his family is.

Brandon told us that he LOVES sports!

Harrison is our "Lego Man", so he told us a little bit about the legos he builds.

 

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McKenzie told us about her grandparents.

Dining out with Roberts @ Chick-fil-A

We've got some fun events planned throughout the year this year including dining out nights and movie nights at Roberts. Our first Spirit Night was at Chick-fil-A, so any parent knows that I couldn't go without my own babies! We had fun getting to see the cow and a few of my teammates from Team Dees!

We got to see Mary Kate.

Benjamin had to show off his "coolness" to everyone. I think that was to distract your eye from the ketchup all over his shirt. Ha!

Benjamin liked hanging out with Mitchell (our self-proclaimed "class clown"). :)

This isn't your old-school fundraiser...

We started off the school year with a fun and FABULOUS fundraiser with Boosterthon's Fun Run. It was a great alternative to the traditional door-to-door selling things, plus it got the kids very excited about school everyday during the week and we had a fun time walking around!

I wish I had half of Turbo Taylor's energy! He came to our room almost everyday to hand out prizes to our team for raising pledges everyday. I think Jack and Ella were pretty excited about their water bottles.

Giovanni was excited to be part of the fun, too!

We set goals for our class to earn X amount of dollars in order to get to fun things during the week. A few of the hits were NO HOMEWORK day and hat day.

 Scenes from the Fun Run:

The group getting ready to take off.

Brandon was busy making his laps!

The teachers stayed busy marking the back of each students' shirt every time they made a lap. Their goal was to make at least 35 laps! Whew!

A few of my tired, yet hard workers!