Christmas Week Fun!

I wanted to share some pictures of our movie field trip and our Christmas party!

Hope you are having a wonderful break!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEARS!

Can you believe it is already Christmas week?!?! I'm sure your son or daughter is so unbelievably anxious for Santa to come and to get a little break from school! Everyone has really worked so hard this first half of the school year. I would say that each and very students has been a VERY very good boy or girl! They deserve a wonderful Christmas!

A few reminders:
- Tomorrow is our movie field trip to the Destinta movie theater to see Tangled! This will be a very fun way to start off our Christmas week.
- Tuesday is our Christmas party! It begins at 2:00.
- Wednesday is our Christmas Sing-A-Long!
- Christmas break begins on Thursday!!

I will be posting some pictures of our party and of the sing-a-long over break! Enjoy your time with your child!

PENS TRIP!!!

The Pens Trip was a BLAST!!! All the students had fun cheering on our Pittsburgh Penguins as they practiced hard! The pictures should say enough...ENJOY!

The bus ride

Anxiously riding the escalator!!

We had Great seats!

The Consol Energy Center

My wonderful class

Iceburgh!!!

Dancing and cheering

The third grade teachers

Daphne was Green Valley's representative selected to ask Coach Bylsma a question!

Daphne on the big screen!

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FIELD TRIP!!!!

What a HUGE week ahead of us!! The third grade students are EXTREMELY lucky to be able to take a field trip to the Consol Energy Center on Thursday to watch the Pittsburgh Penguins practice! We will have so much fun! A couple of reminders: If you want your child to take a camera, ONLY SEND A DISPOSABLE CAMERA. Also, lunches must be packed in a bag. Everything needs to be able to be thrown away...there is no place for lunch boxes to be kept and stored. I will be taking plenty of pictures during the field trip, so look forward to seeing them on Friday!

The rest of the week will be a normal school week. The story we will be reading this week is "Loved Best". It is a great story with a great lesson to learn. All of our tests will still be on Friday, even though our Field Trip is on Thursday.

Light-Up Day

Light-Up Day was better than ever this year! The students had a wonderful time decorating their own gingerbread houses and making different Christmas crafts to decorate our hallway gingerbread house!

Enjoy the pictures I posted.

Bully Free Day!

Tomorrow is our Bully Free Day. This will be celebrated all over the nation to remind everyone how important it is to stop bullying. Please have your child wear their school colors or purple. The teachers will be wearing purple Anit-Bullying tshirts tomorrow, and each student will receive a purple ribbon to wear around their wrists.

The students have really enjoyed working in Learning Centers over the past two weeks! This is something that will be utilized more frequently as the year continues. The students really impressed me with how well they can work in groups. Here are some pictures of our Learning Centers.

In the "Success Seekers" Center, the students focused on Synonyms and Antonyms.

The "Grammar Guru" center is always geared toward the Grammar concept of the week. In this picture, the students are practicing abbreviations.

The students read leveled readers and answer the "Think Critically" questions at the "Teacher Town" center.

The "Vocabulary Voyager" center is used to master the vocabulary words of the week. The students warm up with a review worksheet and then challenge each other with the vocabulary game board!

"Sidekick Readers" is a center used to read over the story of the week and answer questions that similar to questions that will be seen on the comprehension test.

 

 

 

"Technology Tacklers", also known as the computer center" is always the students favorite center! The students work on interactive website that focus on every concept of the week. 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Ariel Hall for being an exceptional student! Ariel is the Star Student for this week!

One More Full Week Before Thanksgiving!

Can you believe we have one full week until Thanksgiving? This year is truly flying by! Thank you to all families for sitting down to complete the Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems! They truly look wonderful and the students were very proud of their work. There are some pictures of their posters at the bottom of this post!


This week, we will be focusing on Singular and Plural nouns! Even though this can be a touch concept, the students really have fun working on all of the activities! I hope you enjoy reading the story of the week with your child. It is a great story about sharing and helping others...which is perfect to read right before Thanksgiving.


Please remember that our LIGHT UP DAY is next Wednesday! Please send in any decorations that you would like! You can send in decorations for our Christmas tree, or our hallway. Please keep in mind our Gingerbread theme!

 

The week ahead...

This week, we will be focusing on Main Idea and Details. This concept can be very difficult for some students, so we will be practicing this a lot. We will also be concentrating on abbreviations, spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension.

REMINDER:
Thanksgiving Acrostics are due Friday! Please be sure to take some time to complete this as a family.


Last week, the students really enjoyed working on Common and Proper Nouns! Here are a few pictures of the class working on an activity that helped master Common and Proper Nouns!

Star Student of the Week!

Congratulations to Kaedon Hill for being an exceptional student! Austin is the Star Student for this week! 

Our week...

Thank you so much to all of the parents who took time out of their day today and yesterday to come meet with me or call for conferences! I am a firm believer that the more parents and teachers communicate, the better!

Just a reminder, we will be testing Vocabulary, Spelling, Grammar, and Comprehension this Friday, even though we have a four day week. Please be sure to look over those Vocabulary sentences on Thursday night! I hope you enjoy reading "The Babe and I" with your child this week. It is a very touching story to share with your son or daughter.

Luckily, next week will finally be a normal 5 day week!

Lastly, I wanted to add another Bullying Link. This is a great website that you and your child can navigate around on to learn more about bullying and how to prevent it. 

http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/kids/default.aspx

HALLOWEEN...WHAT A SPOOOOOOOKY DAY!

We had such a blast on Friday, when we celebrated Halloween!! Enjoy the pictures that I took throughout the day!

 

In the above picture, the students LOVED making gross, icky, slimy SNOT! 

 

 What a SCARY class!!

 

MUMMIES!!!

 

The students got in groups and had to choose one person to mummify! Everyone had a blast!