Karate!

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.

Trick or Treat!

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.

Halloween Party!

Mr. Thomas read two stories to us while one of our Homeroom Mom's set up in the room.

We heard Jerry Seinfeld's Halloween (the class loved this) and Witches Brew.

We then watched as he mixed our very own witch's brew. (lime sherbet and ginger ale)

We went back to the room for some yummy eyeballs.

(doughnut holes with icing and chocolate)

Slime dirt

(Jello and Oreo with gummy worms)

We ended with feeling some guts and skin.

(spaghetti and tortilla)

Then some eyeballs and teeth.

(grapes and corn)

Carving Pumpkins!

Each Table in the room had a chance to help carve a pumpkin. We had a drawing from each table to see who got to take the Jack-o-lanterns home for Halloween.

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 Puppet Show

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.

How Many Pumpkin Seeds!

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!

Heat Testing

All of the third grade came out into the commons to do the heat testing for our Chemical Testing Unit. The teachers took an unknown and held it over the fire. The classes had a chance to look and smell what was happening.

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!

Here the orange unknown is over the fire. It smells bad.