Thankful in Third!

I thought about using self-control in posting these pictures, but they're all SO cute!  This is such a grateful, sweet group of kiddos and I could not love them more!  Thank you for sharing them with me every day.

We had a great Thankful Feast.  Thank you for sending in all the tasty treats and thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time!

Snippets of our days: VAPA, GoNoodle, Time

We LOVE VAPA!!!!  Our VAPA teacher right now is Mrs. Utterback, and we are in the Theater rotation.  We get to wiggle and giggle and learn about pantomime--not to mention she has a SUPER cool spotlight to shine while we are actors.  Monday afternoons might be our favorite times of the week :)

Have you heard about the song "Wishy Washy Washer Woman"?  It's one of our favorites on GoNoodle!

We have been learning about time and the different ways to describe time (ie 5:30 is the same as "half past five") so we had a team challenge to try to put together clocks and descriptions of time at record speeds!

To understand the concept of time, we made a clock with each square unit representing one minute and made clocks, then duplicated our time intervals and made timelines!

Writing Night!

If you missed the Parent Writing Night tonight, here's some of what you missed!

Silhouette Biome Art

Today, we did a really fun art project!  First, each student drew then cut out some shapes from black construction paper specific to their biome.  Then we water-colored a sunset sky, paying close attention to blending the colors together instead of creating stripes.  These kiddos did SO well!  I loved seeing what they came up with!

AMAZING!!!

Friendship Day!

We finished our first S.H.A.K.E. (Science and History Applied when Kids Explore) It Up unit!  Students presented their countries at our Friendship Day event on October 22nd!

Here are some of the displays:

Mr. President of United Justiceforall:

Students also participated in fun, cooperative games where they received points for teamwork and encouragement:

Crossing a "river" made of jumpropes was a big leap!

How long can you hula hoop?  If you're me, the answer is about 7-8 seconds...maybe.  If you're Eddie, maybe a little longer!

On a hot day, we were thankful some stations had shade!

Imagine a game where you and all your friends took off your shoes and then had to race to put them back on...

After the fun and games, we got a chance to look at other countries' displays!

Any day that ends with a smile this big is a good day!

I can't wait for our next S.H.A.K.E. It Up unit--Holidays Around the World!  We will be starting that in mid-November!