November 16 - 20

Week 13

Food Chains

We’ve been diving into the lives of animals lately! We’ve discussed how animals can be categorized by how they get their energy and also by what they eat. Each our kids were assigned an animal that is easily found in South Carolina. They have been working all week to learn about their animal and to create a food chain to display where their animal fall on this food chain. I’m excited to see what the kids start noticing as we present our food chains next week and also as the food chains start overlapping!

Teacher Appreciation week

This week we celebrated the idea of learning and the freedom to receive an education. We talked about what and who we were thankful for in our educational lives. The school assigned each day as a fun dress up day to show appreciation for those in the education business. I was able to grab a few pictures of the kids and myself in our suspenders.

Math

We’ve been working with math to discuss different things and way to measure things. We’ve discussed how solids and liquid have to be measured using different units and also how we can measure time. We’ve spent the majority our week mucking around with different instruments to measure and also we’re still practicing time so that we can on day master it!

Native Americans

We finished our “official” Native American unit 2 weeks ago, but we’ve still been discussing them in class because the kids are so intrigued with them. They’ve been working on creating their own folk tales, myths, and legends. They presented these on Friday and I was BLOWN AWAY!! They were so fantastic! Perhaps we can present these again this coming week to the parents who are able to attend our family feast!

Special visitor

On Friday we had a very special visitor. One who we haven’t seen since last year! Zaria’s grandmother came to spend half of the day with us! She is so wonderful with the kids and they love seeing her! They each wanted to sit with her, talk with her, and ask her a million questions (I’m sure)! She brought some snacks for the kids (as if she hadn’t already won them over). We really enjoyed her visit and hope that she’s able to come back to visit soon! =)

Please remember that our 3^rd grade family feast will be this Tuesday at 12:30. If you can, please be there by 11:50! We are looking forward to having all of the families there! =)

November 9 - 13

Week 12

Veterans Day

What a beautiful ceremony that was given to the veterans! We spent our morning talking about what it means to be a “veteran” and how that sometimes can look very different. We also discussed patriotism. We were so lucky to have some veteran visitors from our class’ family. Zaria’s grandpa, Jordynn’s grandpa and dad, and Rusty’s uncle all came to spend some time with us! It was so amazing to see each of these men in their uniforms and to hear a little about their experiences!

Writing

We’re so excited, and we just can’t hide it! If you haven’t heard yet, we’ve published our first books of the year! I’m so proud of the hard work that the kids put into their stories. The author’s cycle, while natural, can be quite tedious and very time consuming. However, the kids stuck through it and were proud of their finished products! They were even more excited and proud to share their books with their book buddies!

Reading

Reading has always been a hobby for us, but we’ve been able to experience reading through some different avenues!

Reading with Mrs. Griggs

Mrs. Griggs is such a fantastic teacher and she knows so many of our kids personally! I asked if she could come read to the kids because I knew that it would warm their hearts! She always picks the most amazing books to read, and this time she chose The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend! It is such a brilliantly written book with vibrant pictures that encourages kids to find their imagination and run wild with it!

Reading with the Gamecocks

Although Reading with the Gamecocks was offered to all of our kids, only 4 turned in their reading log! I was shocked with the participation rate because our kids love to read, I’m assuming that they just decided that they didn’t want to fill out the reading log. On Sunday Jordynn, Ms. Palmer, Tyla, Mrs. McCain, and I all went to the Lady Gamecocks basketball game and cheered them on! It was such a fun time! Hopefully we will have more participants for the next Reading with the Gamecocks.

Book Buddies

As we do every Friday, we spent it reading with out wonderful book buddies. This week was even more special because we were able to share our own published books with our book buddies! You should have been there to see the pride and joy on the kids’ faces as they shared their books!!!! I’m looking forward to our next published books!! =)