Bella the Monster

Check out Isabella's presentation on her monster that she created 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

We started a new book last week:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
Students love it so far and think it is very funny. He is one of our classes favorite authors. Ask your students so far about this book. Ask them their opinion and to summarize what we have read so far.

Charlie Bucket

Willy Wonka

Check out this book trailer on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Book trailer for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Third grade scholars

A fraction book that we read this week that introduced fractions.
Here is someone reading the book out loud if you want to check it out

Story being read aloud if you want to listen to it again

Art that we made. Each box represents a part of you and all the boxes put together represent all of you or the "whole". We were working on fractions for this. Check out the examples above. Have students make more of these working on other numbers like fifths or eighths.

Creating words that have prefixes and suffixes. Students got one point for a base word and 3 points if had either a prefix or suffix. Students received 7 points if had a base word, prefix, and a  suffix. Most students made at least fifty words and some made over a hundred. We will do this activity again. The students enjoyed making the words and some of the words they made were ones they never heard of or knew the meaning of. 

Scholastic Book Fair- Deciding on what books we want

Learning about the Wetlands and Cattails 

Commenting on classroom blogs. We are learning on what makes a "good " comment. A good comment should have a compliment, a question, connection or more information you can add on, and then a closing. Practice leaving a "good" comment on our blog!

Learning to spell words that have to do with fractions: half, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths, eighths, ninths and tenths.  

Biome tear art with Ms. Fraser's class 

Bean bag multiplication with our 8's

Practicing for a fire during our fire drill 

These photos are making parts of speech posters in class and then presenting them. Students became the teacher and led the instruction to the parts of speech. Students turned the words into a song. Students chose one noun and then they had to come up with five adjectives, verbs, and prepositional phrases around that noun.

Student blogger 2/28: Allie

Caught Ya's by Allie
Please leave a comment for her

   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!!