Monday, December 22, 2008

Merry Christmas!

Amos and Bella pose with Kookie in front of my Christmas Tree.
Kookie is in her holiday dress to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I couldn't resist posting this one too. She just looked to cute.



Mrs. Coon's son and some friends made posters to wave during our sing along.

Hanka Montanna is concert at JHES. You can barely hear the song becasue of the crowd going crazy.

Mr. K preformed "The Best of Both Worlds" for the students dressed as Hannah Montanna before the Christmas sing-a-long Thursday.
The kids went wild as he strolled through the audience during his song.

What a pose as Mr. K got into his preformance.

We all enjoyed seeing Mr. K with the blonde wig. Here he is trying to get the hair out of his face as he finished his song.

Pancakes, Pajama's, and Polar Express


Ms. Farrah made wonderful pancakes for the class at our Holiday party the last day of school before Christmas break.
We had chocolate chips, fruit, cool whip and lots of yummy things to put on top of our pancakes.
Everyone enjoyed the pancakes and pajama's.

We also worked on our ornament while watching Polar Express. Here Maddie's dad helped her out with putting the sequins on her ornament.

Chloe is working hard and concentrating hard on make her ornament look just right. Everyone had fun making the ornaments. It took them a while to put all those sequins on the balls. We had a great party. Thank you to all the parents that helped or sent in items to make it a great party. Everyone had fun and had plenty to eat.

Skip counting work!!!!

We have been working on several sheets of skip counting to help us get ready for multiplication.
Students use hundred charts to skip count by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. They used highlighters to mark the numbers. Then wrote the highlighted numbers in the circles at the bottom. After we finished the skip counting project, students wrote the multiplication facts
(0-12) on the back of each page to help them have a study guide to learn their facts.
Alyssa is working on her skip counting with her highlighter.

Maddie is also working on skip counting by sixes.

Toys for Tots

Jacob and Jake show off the toys they brought in for the Toys for Tots program. A marine came to school to pick up the toys that third grade collected. He visited each class and discussed with the students how the toys they donated will be used.

Gingerbread Glyph's with Mr. Thomas


First everyone had to get all the supplies they needed to make their gingerbread man


Next, they had to cut out the gingerbread man and follow the rules from the glyph to know how to make the glyph correctly.

Gabe and Jacob work on their project.
Shane is waiting for more instructions on what he needs to do next.
Ally's table is working quietly and trying get finihsed before time to go back to class.

Chocolate Fun in Math


We have introduced multiplication. The class really enjoyed chocolate math!!!


We made arrays out of chocolate. The arrays helped to students see the multiplication facts.

Each student had their own Hershey chocolate bar to work with. They were excited about starting multiplication, but even more excited about using chocolate to help them.

After going through the book each student had to make an array with their chocolate bar. They had to write their multiplication fact that their array showed.

Aaliyah was here with a smile for the camera showing her chocolate bar.

Here is the red table with heir arrays laid out for me to check.

The blue tale awaits their turn to be checked.

Shane enjoys his chocolate bar after we finished the lesson.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Christmas Break is here!!!!

We had a wonderful party yesterday. Thank you to the parents that helped with cooking pancakes, bringing food, and helping with our craft. We also enjoyed that afternoon "Hanka Montanna". You might have seen "her" on the news that night. The kids really went crazy. For those of you who missed it, I will be posting pictures soon. I have a camera full of pictures to get on here. I will try to get caught up during Christmas break. We have been busy. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. I will see you all next year! haha.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Chloe is a big sister!!

Chloe's baby brother and sister were born today at Huntsville Hospital.
Both Tristan, Brooklyn, and Mom are doing great! Here is new big sister Chloe with Tristan. Brooklyn had to stay in the nursery for now.

Here is a close up of baby Tristan. I got a chance to hold him as I visited with Chloe and her family. He was sleeping so good that even moving his covers to look at his tiny little feet did not disturb the little fellow. I got to see video of Brooklyn that her dad made so that everyone could see her.

Chloe was so excited to be a big sister. She tried to get Tristan to open his eyes and look at me.
Chloe was glad to get a chance to stay at the hospital to get to know her new baby brother and sister. She was not happy when I brought her most of the work that she missed today and will miss tomorrow. They are hopefully all coming home on Wednesday.

FUN in the SNOW!!!

We just could not resist the temptation to play in the falling snow. The class had a blast.


Here we are all standing in the cold as the snow falls down.
Maddi and Ally huddle to stay warm.

Jada, Alyssa, and Taylor stop playing so I could snap a picture!



We could not keep them from running and enjoying the snow.

They tried to find snow where ever they could. Some were getting small snow balls and throwing them at each other.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Thanksgiving Break!

I hope you are all enjoying your Thanksgiving Break. I am in North Carolina spending the week with my sister and her kids. Coby and Sydney were glad to see me. I know you are all having fun staying at home spending time with you families, or playing your gaming systems. Most of you admitted that was what you were looking forward to most on this week off from school. I am heading back to Alabama tomorrow for the long eight hour drive back. I know Kookie will be glad to see me when I get home. She stayed home and Isabella, Amos, and Genoa took care of her. I will go ahead and say I will be out of school Wednesday for sure and maybe Tuesday. My sister is having surgery and I will be taking and picking up her kids from school and helping her with anything she needs. She plans on being able to move around more by Thursday. Her surgery is Tuesday. She told me she knew she needed me Wednesday, but she thinks her husband should be able to handle things Tuesday. Hope you are ready to work and get back into the swing of things next week. I have missed you all and can't wait to hear all about your week.

Monday, November 17, 2008

This week in Miss Hardison's class

We are working on a new story "Go-Around Dollar" In this story we learn a lot about how money is made and some neat facts about money. We are still working on subtracting with regrouping or as most parents know it as borrowing. Please work with you children at home with this. We are getting lots of practice in class, but it always helps when parents work at home on the skills as well. We are learning about adjectives in Language. You will be seeing a worksheet for homework tonight. My camera has not been working well lately so no pictures. I am hoping to get it working soon. We have a field trip Friday morning. We are heading to Huntsville around 8:30 to see "James and the Giant Peach" at the VBCC. We will be returning to school around 11:30. After that is Thanksgiving Break. YEAH! We are all excited about a week off school.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Up Coming Events

  • Progress reports came home today. I hope that we can all work hard to get our grades to where we want them, if they are not already there.
  • Friday- Reading test "It's A Deal!" is our story, Spelling Test, D.O.L. Quiz, Language Quiz on joining sentences.
  • Next Friday we will be going on our field trip to Huntsville to see "James and the Giant Peach"
  • Thanksgiving Holiday starting November 24-28.

Decatur Elks Lodge

Yesterday the Decatur Elks Lodge had two members come and deliver dictionaries to the third grade students at our school. The kids were excited to get their very own dictionary. Students are keeping them in their cubbies to use at school. The class is having fun looking up words. (I wonder why they fight me on definitions)

Play

Third grade did a fabulous job on the play. We had a great turn out for the Thursday night performance. Unfortunately my camera did not save the pictures that were taken. If you have any good pictures that you could email to me I will try to post them. I was so proud of how well everyone did. Everyone knew their lines and sang the songs so well. Students were excited and nervous about being on stage. Alyssa told me she did not think that so many people would be there so she was a little nervous. All in all we are glad to have the play behind us, so that we could get things back to normal for a little bit.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

We have had a busy week!

We have been so busy this past week. We have had two play practices a day, plus trying to fit in everything else (Math, Reading, Language). We have not had Science or Social Studies last week or this week due to the time put into the play. We will hopefully get back on our regular schedule next week.
We had a great time today at the play. The students really seemed to enjoy the Paper Bag Players. They got to participate in the play by answering questions and singing. We will be performing the Veteran's Day play tomorrow at 8:15 for the school and then again that evening at the PTA meeting that night. Students should arrive by 6:00 pm. All students should be in a plain red shirt and blue jeans. We look forward to seeing you there.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Rickwood Cave Field Trip

Monday, October 20, 2008

This Week in Third Grade

This is our story this week. It is a very neat story. I enjoyed reading it and so will your children. Our reading/vocabulary test will be this Friday. Study! Study! Study!

These are the vocabulary words for this week. Study them with your children. They need to know what they mean.


This week's spelling test and grammar test will focus on homophones. Don't forget that there will be a DOL quiz this Friday as well. The class needs to review Chapter 2 in math for their test on Friday. I will send home a study guide on Tuesday. If your child completes this and returns it on Friday, I will add 5 points to his/her test grade. This study guide is exactly what the test will look like, but with different numbers plugged in.

Tuesday is Parent/Teacher Conference Day. Students will be released at noon.

Wednesday students need to wear their new field trip shirts for our trip to Rickwood Caverns. Students need to be at school by 7:15. We will leave at 7:30 and return by 3:00 p.m.

We have a fun week ahead of us!

More Weekend Fun!


My sister Genoa also gets me Playhouse Season tickets for my birthday. Our first play this year was Charlotte's Web. We took all the kids with us to the play. This is a picture of the kids while we waited for the doors to open. (Sydney, Isabella, Amos, and Coby)
Here was a quick picture of Wilbur the pig after the show. Cody waited to get his autograph.

This a not so good picture of Charlotte, the spider, while we waited to get her autograph as well. It was a cute show and the kids really seemed to enjoy it. I can't wait to see what are next play will be.

Weekend Fun!

My family and I had a lot of fun at Disney on Ice this weekend. I thought I would share some of my pictures with you all. The two on the top are my sisters, Karol and Genoa. The next row, starting on the left, is Amos and Coby (my nephews), me holding my niece Sydney, Isabella, my other niece and my mom is on the end.

Timon and Pumba from the Lion King
Flounder and Ariel from the Little Mermaid Doesn't Coby make a cute Flounder!
I really liked the Lilo and Stitch part. I enjoyed watching the boys dance to all the Elvis music.

More from the Lilo and Stitch part of the show.

Of course, Mickey and Minnie mouse had to make an appearance.

Here is Tinker Bell

Peter Pan and his shadow.

It was a great show! We all enjoyed it.