What's gonna work? Teamwork!

Inside of Team Dees' stadium, we have been learning about teamwork and how to make decisions with our teammates. A few weeks ago, the class did an activity called Counting Collections and had to determine the best way to count different objects. I must say that I'm VERY impressed at how well my team works together this year!!!

Justin, Savannah, and Anna grouped their snap cubes together.

"Ugh! Too many beads, Mrs. Dees!" is what I heard from several of the groups that came to the beads collection. Ha!
Helen, Allissa, and Mitchell did a great job on grouping the beads together.

Mary Kate and Brandon counted their notebooks.

Ava, Cooper, and Devanshika did a great job on double checking their counting!

Such hard workers! Bella, McKenzie, and Destin grouped their pencils into twos to count them faster.

Look at that teamwork! Jack, Chloe, and Ella worked well together counting out the erasers.

Justin, Giovanni, and Giada counted beads

We even work well together to get out of the door quickly at dismissal. Sometimes they have a few seconds to spare so we can squeeze in one more teambuilding activity like "Telephone". I wonder when that game will fade out and it will turn into "Texting". ;)

Meet my team

Every once in a while we have to stop and take a break.

I've tried enlarging this picture, but it won't work for some reason. But this is my fabulous class after "surviving" their first week of school. I'm pretty excited to get to know each of my teammates this year!

Even the teachers have to stop every once in a while. Mr. Spencer had to join us! :)

 

Have you ever seen your lungs? My class has! They decided that they always want their's to be bright pink and healthy.



Welcome to 3rd grade!

Welcome to third grade, Team Dees! I've had a great time getting to know all of my students already! The first week of school was filled with "getting to know you" activites. Of course, I had to involve a football and a giant beach ball for Team Dees!

On the second day of school, after everyone got a chance to try to learn everyone's name, we played a name game. They had to throw the football to another classmate as they said their name. I timed the entire class to see how well they knew each other's names. They did pretty well!

I love how everyone already pays such close attention to their teammates! Ella was answering one of the questions from the question ball while Allissa and Destin patiently listened.

Brandon did a great job telling a little about himself.

Team Dees did a great job with helping each other catch the football so they would be able to beat their time.

Be sure to check back here often as I will try to update at least weekly! You won't want to miss what your child has been up to!



Class Representative Elections and Getting Tech Savvy

We had Class Representative elections yesterday. I gave the class a week to decide if they wanted to run and make a speech. I must say that I was impressed with some of the things that they wanted to "change" at school!

After a very close vote, Bella was chosen as our class representative. She worked very hard on her speech! This is her giving her acceptance speech after she was named the class representative.

 Meet our other candidates:

Allissa

Brandon

McKenzie

Luke--he promised that he could make a stack of papers thiiiis tall if he was elected. :)

Anna

After elections, we did Word Study on the Smart Board. Although we use the board everyday, I'm still so amazed with how it helps the students learn!



Smoothie Day

We had Smoothie Day with Planet Smoothie at school last week. I don't know who was more excited...me or the kids! :) I love all of their expressions.

 

Now that's some talent!

We enjoyed our very first Talent Show at Roberts, and I must say that we have some talented kids! I had no clue that my class alone was so full of talent!



The Baldwin brothers formed the Baldwin Band and kicked off the Talent Show with "Sweet Home Alabama".

Presley performed a fabulous dance routine.

 

And Maggie and her friend, Caroline, in Mrs. Griffith's class end the Talent Show with their showstopping performance as well.

I was blown away with all of our school's talent and am looking forward to what next year will bring us!



Field Day 2011

Our very first Field Day here at Roberts was hysterical, brilliant, and of course, fun!!! I think most of the kids' favorite game was the Over-Under-Sponge Game. Most of them enjoyed getting soaked. I hope that you will enjoy these pictures (some are turned sideways for some reason) and the comments made by my class.

Some of the boys enjoyed getting really cold first thing in the morning.

The girls enjoyed getting soaked as well.



The girls also enjoyed beating the boys in most of the games. :) Go girls!!!



Go, Drew, go!



Hurry up! The "Buddy Walkers" game was very challenging!

Go, David, go, Camryn!!! I loved watching all of the kids participate in the 3-legged-race!



Awww...



Go, you're almost there!!!

 

Oops!



This was the boys trying to distract me when I threw the ball and unfortunatley missed. However, I came back and scored a 4 for the girls' team! :)

  

Smile!

Who knew that the parachute could be so hard? The kids really enjoyed NOT following the diretcions on this activity. :)

We've got to beat the 2nd graders! And we did!!!

Cha, cha, cha, cha, cha, cha, cha...

Pull, pull, pull!!! Ok, the boys are actually stronger than the girls (including myself), so the boys won this activity.

Check out this multitasking that Maggie is doing (drinking a smoothie that we got from Planet Smoothie while signing Emily's Field Day shirt).

Luka getting practice signing his autograph before he becomes a famous author or superstar.

Camryn was showing me his awesome hula-hoop skills and just reminding that I'm not very good at it anymore.

Around, and around, and around, and...

Each of the teams had a hard time figuring out the over/under process at first, but they did great once they got the hang of it!

Come on, we're about to win!

Too bad I didn't get a picture of one of the kids' most favorite moments of the day...Davidson throwing a water balloon on my back. I just hope that Davidson or his classmastes are watching his back!

Thanks to all of the parents who came out to help. I'm looking forward to next year's Field Day.