Student blogger 2/28: Allie

Caught Ya's by Allie
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   At my school we have been doing this thing that whenever we are being good we get rewarded with a caught ya. What is a caught ya? Well it is a yellow piece of paper that says your name and what you did that was good. After you have earned a caught ya you put it in a bucket that all the teachers have in their classrooms. After all the buckets have been filled up we have an assembly which will be this Friday (2-28-14) and the first name to be picked from the buckets will get to have a prize. It will be very fun to see who wins!! 

2/28 in our classroom- Kindness assembly and Read-a-Thon

Look all the caught-yas we have collected so far. Mrs. G wants to have this bucket overflowing by June. 

 Our kindness assembly as a school. We learned a song about kindness and watched a video that modeled how we can be kind. Afterwards, teachers drew four caught-yas. Congratulations Aadit, Lily, Marek and Connor for having your name drawn and getting a prize. Great job earning a caught-ya! How many caught-yas will we earn this month? This month caught-yas will be passed out for students who display kindness. 

Ms. Hines reading Pete the Cat and the Magic Sunglasses.

Check out this link on this story: Pete the Cat and his Magic Sunglasses trailer

We filled our marble jar and were able to watch the Mouse and Motorcycle movie which is on streaming on netflix. It is also on youtube if you want to check it out.  We all enjoyed watching this movie in pjs with our pillows. I even joined them on the floor to watch. Students were noticing differences in the movie and book. They also noticed how "old school" the movie was and they got quite a laugh out of it.

Mrs. Kloczko was our Mystery Reader. In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday she read Green Eggs and a Ham. 

Our read-a-thon in class on 2/28. Students were able to bring books from home and just read! They were able to share books within one another or read by themselves. We read for about 45 minutes that day and it was great!! Mrs. G's class loves reading!!

Speaking of reading congratulations to these students for completing six hours of free reading and earning a Six Flags Discovery Kingdom ticket:
1. Saniya
2. Connor
3. Aadit
4. Jack
5. Kayli
6. Zerlan
7. Joey
8. Lily
9. Allie
10. Kylie
11. Marek

The deadline is March 10th, so keep reading and turn in your form so you can get your ticket!!

Guest blogger of the week: Kiana

Hi, I am Kiana. I’m the guest  blogger and I am going to talk about “Debate It”. In Scholastic there are debating on different things. Our latest one  was “Should we have P.E. every day.” Most people said yes. I said yes because people should get more exercise and not be lazy. We had 3 debate it last year. This year we had 2 so far. I hope you liked my guest blog!!

Using story wands to answer questions about Mouse and the Motorcycle

Learning about common root words like bio, mono, bi, tri, geo, cardio and agri. We discussed how these are root words that show up a lot in our reading and it is helpful to know what they mean. It is helpful to know the root word so we can figure out the meaning of the word we are reading. 

 Learning to draw a bison in art.

 We spoke about being a digital citizen this week. We read an article that had different scenarios of children learning how to make good decisions on the computer. The scenarios were about leaving positive comments on blogs, finding credible sources online, and computer viruses. Then, we signed this banner pledging to always be safe on the internet.

For homework this week, students had to write a paragraph describing a monster. Students then shared their monster writing with a partner. The partner had to draw the monster while their partner was reading. Partners then looked to see if the description of the monster and the drawing were similar. We had a class discussion on needing to add more detail and description to our writing. Ask your students about this experience.

Sharing out monster writing

Saniya's mom was the Mystery Reader. She read a great book about a dancer like Saniya. The book had a great lesson. Discuss the lesson of this book with your child.

Have a great weekend!

More learning this week

Learning and having fun in third grade

Word charades: Acting out verbs and adjectives to do with feelings.

Getting ready for the book fair for next week. Having an eye on what books we want to purchase.

In honor of the Olympics we are playing Olympic bingo. We discussed some of the sports that our in the winter olympics and we talked about who has been watching them. If you have not watched any yet, try to watch this weekend.


Biome Chalk Art

drawing a dolphin

drawing seaweed

drawing a giraffe

A narwhal

A bison

A squid

A platypus

An octopus

A snow shoe hare