Rickwood Cave Field Trip

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.

Mrs. Nance (aka Miss Hardison's Mom)

Retha Nance, my mom, is a reading Coach in Moore Public Schools in Oklahoma. She was visiting me for Fall Break. I had her come to read to our class. She donated the book she started, "7 Habits of Happy Children" The class was introduced to several character that will help us remember and learn about the 7 Habits for our school.She gave students cards with tips to help them remember the characters in the book. We will be reading the other stories in the book throughout the year. The characters are in every story.
Students stood up to tell something they remembered about the character they were given. Here Tyus shared what he remembered about Goob Bear.

The class had color sheets to color while Mrs. Nance read the story to them.
Jacob was enjoying listening to the story as well as coloring his pictures

This is my niece, Sydney. She came with her Nana to listen to the story in Aunt Nancy's class. She enjoyed see the kids and visiting where I work. She is from North Carolina. She came to visit with me during Fall Break.

My Nephew, Coby, enjoyed coloring with the rest of the class while his Nana read the story. He was visiting from North Carolina. He was excited to see a school. He wanted to see a Kindergarten room while he was here because he will start school next year.

Report Cards Coming Home!

I hope everyone had a great Fall Break. I really enjoyed having my family here and spending time with my nieces and nephews. Just a reminder that report cards come home tomorrow, Friday October 17, 2008. Spelling and Reading test will now be on Fridays. We are very excited about that. YEAH!!! Field Trip money needs to be turned in ASAP!

Upcoming events: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Parent Teacher Conferences from 1:00 - 7:00
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Field Trip to Rickwood Caverns

Violin Recital

Here are the students that participated in the Violin Recital today. They did a great job! I was so proud of how well they listened and performed the various songs that they had practiced. This was our tenth lesson and parents, grandparents, aunts, brothers, sisters, and friends came to here all the progress the class had made.

This is a map that my mother made several years ago to use with her students to help them learn the continents and oceans. Student get to take off their shoes and stand on the continent or ocean that they are trying to find. When she moved to older students she passed it on to me and know my classes get a chance to play on the oceans and continents. The class all got a chance to find a continent: Jocelyn found North America, Ally found South America, Taylor found Europe, Chloe found Asia, Megan found Africa, Shane found Australia, and Jake found Antarctica.
Ruben found North America, Jacob found South America, Maddi found Europe, Naman found Africa, Alyssa found Asia, Gabe found Australia, Jaxson found Antarctica.
Mason found North America, Jada found South America, Branden found Africa, Aaliyah found Asia, and Tyus found Australia. We all had a blast playing on the map. Students also found the Arctic, Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans. We found the equator which is the imaginary line around the middle of the earth.

CRAZY Sock Day

Monday was "The War on drugs", so every one wore their camouflage clothes , I forgot the camera so we did not get pictures. Tuesday was blue jean day. I can't remember the saying that went with the jeans day.Wednesday everyone had on their crazy socks. We were "Socking it to Drugs" As you can see we all had a different idea of what crazy socks were. Everyone looked great. Today, Thursday was " Put a Cap on Drugs" So everyone had their hats on. We had a variety of hats at school, from baseball caps, dance hats, sombreros, cowboy hats, and safari hats. Friday is team shirt day. So I exspect to see lots of neat sporting teams tomorrow.