Anti-Bullying and Zephyr's Baseball

Our local baseball team, the New Orleans Zephyrs, hosted an Anti-Bullying day.

Michael Lewis, New Orleans Saints player from 2001 to 2006, spoke to the students about the dangers of bullying and what to do if they are being bullied. He was very interactive with the children and made them feel special. 

Here he is pictured with some of our students.

After his speech, we watched the Zephyr's play a game.

 

Wrapping Up Testing

State testing is over and it's time to breathe a sigh of relief.

The first half of Friday the students rotated through centers.

Here, students are making butterfly cupcakes. They spread purple or pink icing onto the cupcake. Then, used 2 pretzels for the wings, 1 sour straw for the body, 1 Skittle for the head, and 2 Twizzlers for the antenea. 

 

At this station, they are making colorful eggs. First, strips of scrapbook paper were placed over an oval and cut to size. After gluing the scrapbook paper onto the first oval, a second oval was cut out and glued over the scrapbook paper to make a frame.

 

 

 

Symmetrical butterflies were made with the help of Ms. Gros. A paper was folded in half and students traced out half a butterfly's body with food coloring. The paper was carefully folded and pressed down so the food coloring would print onto the other side.

 

 

At another center, the students decorated spring trees. 

At the last center, students worked on a spring packet.

When the mess...I mean creativity...was cleared, we began reading the first chapter in Charlotte's Web.

For each chapter, the students will complete the following activities in their novel folder:

-  find vocabulary word used in the story and copy sentence or create your own sentence using word

-  summarize 

-  journal (2 to 4 critical thinking questions are provided and students choose one to answer)

-  homework questions

Students participated in academic relays the last half of the day.

Two classes competed in each relay. For one relay, the students had to pop a balloon to get the question contained inside. Once answered correctly, they raced back and tagged the next participant.

 

In the second relay, students had to give up a shoe. Each shoe contained a question. The students raced to find their shoe, correctly answer the question, and race back to tag the next child.

Annual Egg Drop

Each year, our students participate in an egg drop. Students are given the task to find the best way to protect their egg from cracking when it is dropped from the school's roof.

Students waited while three brave teachers climbed to the top of the roof {scared of heights so you won't see me up there}

One by one, each egg was dropped.

The eggs were collected and analyzed

 

Here are the survivors!!

Happy Easter!

Standardized Testing Bulletin Board

I had to share this fantastic bulletin board created

by Mrs. Rodriguez!

The front of the monster contains questions.

The second cut-out contains answer options.

The back side of the second cut-out holds the correct answer.

Third Grade Common Core

Check out this great resource for 3rd grade teachers!

The Third Grade Common Core Workbook contains posters, activities, and worksheets for each Common Core standard in math and ELA. Everything you need to teach these standards are in one place!

Plane and Solid Shapes

After reading The Greedy Triangle and discussing characteristics of 2D (plane) shapes, the students graphed ordered pairs to draw various shapes.

 

After graphing the shapes, each one was colored a certain color according to its name.

 

Then, we sorted quadrilaterals and labeled. Students created their own categories to sort when finished.

 


After learning about 3D (solid) shapes, students identified them with food. Each student was given a bag with various items and sorted them as cylinders, cones, rectangular prisms, spheres, and cubes. The activity was created by Johanna Tackitt and can be found here.

 

 

Once sorted and counted, a graph was made. Also, 2 questions were created that could be answered using their graph.

These are the anchor charts for the week.

After all their hard work, students were treated to a Mardi Gras parade put on by Kindergarten. 

In addition, we had a Mardi Gras/Valentine's celebration. Students brought in treats for their classmates. 

 

Ms. Gros brought cupcakes that she made. There is not much that she can't do :)  

They look and taste AWESOME!! 

Finally, at the end of the day our school held our end of the quarter PBIS award. Students that did not receive more than a phone call home attended a magic show. They were amazed and thrilled at the performance!

 

 

HAPPY MARDI GRAS!