My Days as a Third Grader!: March 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Class Picture 2012

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class picture, please make sure you mark it on your

picture order form. Forms are due by April 5.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Bartering Day

One of our Tennesse SPIs is to distinguish between a

barter economy and money economy. Well, what better

way to learn than by doing it. So we held a bartering day

from my class and Mrs. Simpson's class. They could bring

a small item from home to barter.

We had everything: matchbox cars, necklaces.

headbands, gum, notepads, pencils, beef jerky,

cokes, drawings, and even those funny clown glasses.

Mission Accomplished! We know bartering!

Mystery Guest Speaker

To wrap up our mystery unit, I invited in Officer

Toungette and Officer Maples from the Waverly

Police Department to speak to us about solving

real mysteries. These 2 gentlemen happen to have

a pretty cool connection to my classroom. I teach

their grandson/son every day!

WOW - love that our

local heroes could help us out with

our "everyday" learning!

Officer Toungette sharing one of his real mysteries

in our small town. He explained how the clues and

evidence lead them to the criminal. He is showing a

picture of tire tracks that connected the suspect to the crime.

He did an AMAZING job speaking to the kiddos.

He said more than once how important it was for a

good detective to be a good listener and pay attention

to the details....just like they should listen to the teacher-

that would be me. I LOVED IT! I could have hugged

his neck. What an awesome message for these kids!

Here he is asking Scott (his grandson) to pick up

a drinking glass so he can lift his fingerprints.

Lifting Scott's (the criminal's) prints from the glass.

A little assistance from Scott's dad, Officer Maples.

THANKS A MILLION GUYS!

Yes, for coming to speak to my class, but more than

that...thanks for all you do to keep Waverly safe!

Goodbye Student Teacher

Our class said goodbye to our neighboring student

teacher. She wasn't ours all the time, but my kiddos

enjoyed their time with Mrs. Little during Science and

a couple of other special projects. Thanks Mrs. Little.

My neighboring teacher (Mrs. Simpson) and Mrs. Little

Learning about President's Day

We had many questions about why we celebrate

President's Day, so we took to the library to find out.

Why do we only celebrate G.W. and A.L.?

We checked out a ton of books on these two famous

presidents and began "harvesting" information. The kids

then turned their info. into a graphic organizer and shared

what they learned with their classmates. We of course

did 2 quick art projects to make our display pop!

Friday, March 16, 2012

We've been practicing poetry to prepare for
our state testing in April.

Here's a page I created to help the kiddos.
Kids "infer" the word that rhymes and goes in the blank.
They then complete the questions.
It's not fancy, but was a good intro for us.

These are my first document shares.
Please leave a comment if you use and let me know
what you think. I hope there are no mistakes.

Poetry Practice Freebie
Poetry Practice Freebie 2