I stayed a little late after school yesterday to catch a few pictures of the karate class that three of our classmates take. Here is Kassie getting ready to show off her kicks.
Jake, Kassie, and A'Kyah are practicing their foot positions for the various kicks they will be working on.
They catch me taking their picture and Kassie smiles.
Isabella was a queen for Halloween! She wanted her Aunt to take her trick or treating again this year. So off we went through the neighborhood. Last year we went five miles, we stopped after two or three this year.
She was happy with her loot. I thought she looked so cute. I let her wear some of my make-up. She thought she was so grown-up. 
Mr. Thomas read two stories to us while one of our Homeroom Mom's set up in the room.
We went back to the room for some yummy eyeballs. 
Slime dirt
We ended with feeling some guts and skin.
Then some eyeballs and teeth.
Cerise won the owl pumpkin
Tony won the jack-o-lantern from his table.
Jayden won the scary jack-o-lantern from his group.
Zach was the winning number from his table.
Austin High School came to school and did a quick puppet show for the third grade.
We had varies characters to help the students learn the problems smoking and drinking can have on a person.
Students learns the negative things smoking and drinking can do to your body.
Here are some of the students that put on the puppet show. Students had a chance to ask them questions after the show.
After dissecting our pumpkins, Mrs. Long took the seeds home and fixed them for us to eat for snack. The students had also read Candy Corn Contest, so we had them try to guess how many seeds were in the jar. Emily was the closest so she received some credits. Emily guess 1,400 seeds. The actual number of seeds in the jar was 1,500. Good job Emily!
We took our five unknowns to see what they did when heated. Here is Mrs. Long holding the green unknown over the heat. Cerise and Tony look on to see what is happening.
This is the red unknown. We saw it turn a brown and then black and it smelled like Carmel. Wonder what it could be!
She then surprised the class with real pumpkins to look at. We got a chance to pull all the seeds out of the pumpkin. Later we will describe what the pumpkin feels like.
Everyone got a chance to pull seeds out of the pumpkin. Some students thought this was gross, but I did not see anyone turn down a chance to put their hand inside the pumpkin.
Here is what we pulled out of the pumpkin. Mrs. Long is going to do something with the seeds tonight, and said she would have a surprise for us tomorrow with them. We can't wait for tomorrow!
Chemical testing is a fun unit for the kids. We have to keep up with all the data we gather through various tests to find out what our unknown chemicals are.
Students have five unknown chemicals. (All household chemical, so we are not going to blow the school up) We will test each unknown with water, water mixture and a filtration test to see if they are solutions or suspensions. We did these tests on Monday.
Today we tested the five unknowns with Iodine, Vinegar, and red cabbage juice. We saw some neat things today.
We saw the orange unknown bubble and fizz when mixed with vinegar.
The orange also turned purple-black when tested with Iodine. The class loved this.
We have a class chart as well as each student collecting data and making their own chart.
Students used base tens to make addition problems for their partner to figure out.
The class had to figure out the numbers they were adding and then come up with the answer.
Partners would take turns trying to stump their friends. 
They really enjoyed the hands on approach we used doing our daily math problems. It was a nice break from paper and pencil work.
Here Alexia is passing the seeds. Students got a chance to see various seeds in different stages. 
The students are looking at the flowers and looking for seeds.
We had a picture taken of all of those left at the gardens before we got back on the bus. We had a great trip. Everyone was well behaved and learned a lot about seeds.
I visited my sister and her three kids in North Carolina for Fall Break. Coby who started Kindergarten this year is playing Flag Football. Saturday afternoon we went to watch his game. He is the one with the yellow shorts and red shirt in the back.
Corban the baby fell asleep at his big brothers game. He had fun watching for a while, but gave up by the end.
I did get caught sneaking Corban a chocolate chip cookie. My sister didn't get too mad because she had given him bits before. He loved it!
Here the kids are Sunday night before church. I hated thinking that I had to leave on Monday.
I finally got one picture where all three were looking at me. Coby, Sydney, and Corban were waiting for us to leave.
