Friday, December 13, 2013

Friday December 13, 2013.....A FREEZING Week.

1.We had WIN groups for reading and language arts.
2. We made gingerbread men!!!!:)
3.We have been practicing for the Christmas concert.
4.We got to go outside!!!
5. We played volleyball at gym.
6.Outside we built a snow fort !!!!!!!!!!!!!:) :) :)
7.We made trees.
8.I went sliding.
9. This student was absent
10.I won the baseball game.
11.We had cheese pizza!!!!!!!(: (: ;)
12.WE SAW JONAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)
13.We talked to Mrs.Smith;)!!!!!!!!!!
14. We made rail train ornaments with glitter!!!!!:)
15.We HAD to go out for a fire drill at 12- to 7°F!!!
16.This student was quite busy doing other work. 
17.This student was absent.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Friday, December 6, 2013

Hello everyone,

     Well, it has been a really busy week here in Mrs. Smith's 3rd grade classroom.  On Monday night, something wonderful happened.....baby Jonah Samuel Smith was born at 6:15 PM.  He weighed 8 pounds and 5 ounces, and was 20 inches long. We saw a picture of Jonah with his big brother Noah and big sister Isabel.  They sure were happy.  Jonah is a lucky baby.  We even saw a picture of him wearing a little Minnesota Vikings suit.  That's cool!  Today we were able to talk to Mrs. Smith on the phone.  She sounds great.  We are all trying to do our best here at school so she'll be very proud of how much we are learning.  We were so busy, that we ran out of time to do individual blogs and made this one together.  Happy Friday to you!  

Mrs. Smith's students

Friday, November 22, 2013

November 22nd

1.We had music.
2. We had a turkey lunch!!
3. (I am absent)
4. We did our family interview.
5. We watched a movie at libery.
6. We will have a Punch and Poetry Party!!!!!!!
7. We set up chairs.
8.We had milk break.
9. We are going to read our poems to our parents.
10.We had fun in Physical Education.
11. We made turkeys!
12.We played a FOOD game.
13. (I am absent)
14. We are taking home our turkeys, flying pumpkins, and mobiles.:)
15. We had so much fun at gym!!!
16. We have a book.
17. (ran out of time)

Friday, November 15, 2013

November 14th, 2013

1. We had spelling.
2. We made mobiles when we were at art!!!!!!!!!!!
3. We had phy.ed.
4. We wrote and colored tooth people!!!
5. Our iPads got updated.
6. This week in art we finished our mobiles.
7. We did WIN group.
8. We had milk break.
9. We played soccer in gym.
10.We did are count byes.
11.We got to bring home our bats!
12.We played sport tag.
13. We made a color poem.
14. We picked different words for WIN groups. Mine is interminable.
15. We played soccer in phy. ed.
16. (We ran out of time)
17. We wrote about teeth.

Friday, November 8, 2013

November 8th

1. We had physical education.
2. We made cool stuff in art!!
4. It snowed!
5. We made flying pumpkins.
6. I made cool snow forts!!
7. We had free time.
8. We played volleyball.
9. I played Legos at free time.
10. We made names for our tables.
11. We heard in a story that catalog cats were real.
12. In gym we played foot tag.
13.We had our wkce test.
14. We got our iPads upgraded and I am the student of the week! :)
15. We went outside when it snowed.
16. We did a math test.
17. Outside I played with my friends.

Friday, October 25, 2013

October 25th

1. We read a book during WIN group time.
2. We made a leaf pile at recess.
3. We played Trouble during free time.
4. We watched Reading Rainbow on bats.
5. We learned about a bats!
6. We had free time!!!!
7. We had morning meeting.
8. (left early)
9. We bowled in gym.
10. We had Physical Education.
11. We did hard math!
12. We had a spelling test
13. We made monsters.
14. We went to Mrs. Anderson's room and played Splash Math on our ipads.
15. We had so much fun at music.
16. We did math.
17. We played the 10 game in guidance.

Monday, October 21, 2013

October 18th

1.We had WIN groups.
2.We went to phy. ed. this morning!!!!!
3. We earned free time.
4.We voted for Mrs. Smith's baby!
5.,We played soccer at recess.
6.,We worked on our fire posters at art!!!!!!!!
7. We had guidance
8. (Not enough time)
9. We played kickball in gym.
10.We read Pete the Cat.
11. We did our spelling!!!
12. We played doge ball.
13. (Not enough time)
14. (Not enough time)
15. People from WITC visited our phy. ed. class.
16. (Not enough time)
17.  We read a tractor book.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Homecoming Day - October 11th

1. We had pep assembly.
2. We are going to a parade.
3. We had cupcakes for Dustan's birthday.
4. We had free time.
5. (I am absent)
6. We had guidance.
7. We did not go to phy. ed. on Friday because of Homecoming.
8. We milk break.
9. We watched the band.
10. We played the drums in music.
11. We made bracelets with beads.
12. Third grade played a golf game in the pep rally.
13. We made yarn art.
14. We did a pacer test in phy. ed.
15. We had a lot of fun at the pep rally.
16. We did spelling each day.
17. We drew in art: animals, fire engines, and more.

Friday, October 4, 2013

October 3rd, 2013

1.We had art.

2. We did animal research.

3. (Absent)

4.We did sand art.

5. We learned a new app on our iPad.

6. (Oops, forgot to save)

7. (Absent)

8. (Oops, forgot to save)

9. I learned all my letters and sounds.

10. (Absent)

11. We made fish!.

12. (It wouldn't work today)

13. (It wouldn't work today)

14. (It wouldn't work today)

15. (It wouldn't work today)

16. (It wouldn't work today)

17. I liked everything about school this week.

Our Week - May 28th to 31st

We had a lovely week!

1. We got to see Mrs. Smith's ultrasound pictures.

2. We made cards for our bus drivers and for soldiers.

3. We played kick ball in phy. ed.

4. We visited Mr. Gibson and Mrs. Anderson's class.

5. We had a field trip to the zoo.

6. We went geocaching with Mrs. Piskie's class.

7. Mrs. Blatterman and Mrs. Hestad went on our field trip to the zoo with us.

8. We made thank you cards for Siara, Ashtin, Faith, Alexis, and Mrs. Blatterman.

9. We made mini pizzas out of English muffins as a reward for passing our addition and subtraction tests.

10. Sam brought us ice cream sandwiches for out last day of Jr. Achievement.

11. We received certificates for Junior Achievement.

Monday, September 30, 2013

September 27th, 2013!

1. We went to the garden.

2. We went to the crazy run on Friday

3. (Forgot to save, next week :))

4. We went to Hunt Hill.

5. We played homework land.

6. We worked on our iPads on Grade 3 Multiplication.

7. We put a mustache on Mr. Anderson at the Crazy Run.

8. We went on our first field trip.

9. We had the Crazy Run egg game.

10. We went out to the Garden.

11. We worked on our white boards on our iPads.

12.We played the Crazy Run cone game.

13. We played the ping pong spoon game at the Crazy Run.

14. We went hiking at Hunt Hill.

15. We practiced notes in Music class.

16. At Hunt Hill we learned that beaches need a buffer.

17. I read Green Eggs and Ham.


Monday, September 23, 2013

This Week - September 20th

1. We had gym.

2. We earned free time

3. We watched reading rainbow!!!

4. We used our iPads

5. We checked out library books

6. We had recess.

7. We watched an ocean movie.

8. We did star math.

9. We threw balls in gym.

10. We had music.

11. We had recess.

12. We logged in to our blog.

13. We had pictures.

14. We earned four marbles.

15. We had fun in gym.

16. We did spelling.

17. We read.

Friday, September 13, 2013

15 Things We Did This Week - September 13th

1. We had guidance.

2. We played outside at recess with our friends!

3. We had physical education.

4. We got our iPads.

5. We all made new friends.

6. We had our spelling test on Friday.

7. We had math.

8. We had milk break.

9. (No Student)

10. We had spelling.

11. We had fun!!!

12. We posted on our blog on Friday.

13. We had read to self.

14. I am absent today.

15. We watched Reading Rainbow on Friday.

16. We had a fun time in music.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Our Very First Week of Third Grade

1. This week we had phy. ed.

2. This week we played outside at recess.

3. (I'm absent today)

4. We had lunch this week.

5. We checked out library books this week.

6. We got our weekly jobs on Monday.

7. We had guidance with Mrs. Bitney.

8. This week we took a spelling test.

9. (No student is number 9 at this time)

10. We had art this week.

11. This week we made our pencil cans.

12. We made volleyball posters this week.

13. We did a third day in third grade packet.

14. This week we drew a picture in art.

15. We created a Wanted Poster.

16. We did math this week.



Sunday, August 25, 2013

Blogging

We will begin blogging the 1st week of school. Each Friday we will blog about our past week.

Friday, May 17, 2013

11 Things We Did This Week - May 13th to 17th

We had a beautiful week!

1. We made acrostic Spring poems.


2. We visited third grade classrooms.

3. We started a new Bingo behavior game.

4. We played outside on the 3rd grade playground at recess.

5. Malana lost a tooth this week.

6. We changed seats.

7. The "Girls" table earned the most free time minutes.

8. We created a brain project.

9. At the technology station we played Fishing for Nouns.

10. We made summer and spring scratch art.

11. We created midpoint art.

Friday, May 10, 2013

11 Things We Did This Week - May 6th to May 10th

We had a marvelous week!

1. We made a hand and vase project.

2. We went outside four times on Friday.

3. An author/illustrator came in and read her book to us.

4. We made poems.

5. We played Turtle tag in phy. ed.

6. We made a book.

7. Five people are done with 2nd grade spelling.

8. Mrs. Blatterman came in on Friday.


9. We raised $18.55 for Coins for Critters.

10. In Technology group we played Shoot the Clock.

11. We celebrated Josh's birthday on Friday.

Friday, May 3, 2013

13 Things This Week - April 29th to May 3rd

We had a ball this week!

1. Mrs. Smith's husband came in for Junior Achievement.

2. We each made a Magic School Bus.

3. We created a magic vehicle.

4. We had a snowstorm and no school on Thursday.


5. We raised some money for Coins for Critters.

6. We received some books from Scholastic.

7. We cleaned our bookshelves.

8. We couldn't deliver our plants yet, because of the rain and snow.

9. We had free time on Friday and two tables had over 20 minutes.

10. We played Scrabble in reading groups.

11. We made scales in Music.

12. Justin lost a tooth.

13. In phy. ed. we had a substitute named Mr. Prill.

Friday, April 26, 2013

10 Things We Did This Week - April 22nd-26th

We had a marvelous week!

1. We planted flowers in pots in our classroom.

2. We went to the movie theater and watched Tangled.

3. Anna won the "Be Green" poster contest.

4. We made skeletons.

5. We created an Earth pledge.

6. We watched an Orca show in Music class.

7. It was "Be Green" week this week.

8. Our spelling bonus words were Mrs. Rubesch and Mrs. Focht.

9. We're learning about the body system in language arts.

10. We went outside for gym.

Monday, April 22, 2013

10 Things We Did This Week - April 15th to 19th

We had a great week!

1. We did mountains and rolling hills tear paper art.

2. We had a substitute teacher on Wednesday.

3. We sang a spring song in Music class.

4. We had a snow day on Friday.

5. It was Justin's birthday.

6. Our Cumberland pen pals wrote back.

7. We had homework.

8. We learned about the digestive system.

9. We finished our "Be Green" posters.

10. We made a giant Mrs. Smith.

Monday, April 15, 2013

10 Things This Week - April 8th - 12th

1. We made giants and described them on paper.

2. We earned some free time. Wolves had 27 minutes, Green Bay had 26 minutes, and Vikings had 1 minute.

3. Pizza was our favorite lunch.

4. We played Mr. Fox in Phy. Ed.

5. Our bonus words were assessment and continent.

6. We had "hat day" on Friday. it was "Caps for Cancer Day." We paid $1.00 to wear a cap.

7. In math we learned to subtract money.

8. We had a Unit 5 All Around the World Folktale test.

9. Ethan's mom came to help us on Friday afternoon.

10. We learned what text features are.

Friday, April 5, 2013

11 Things We Did This Week - April 2nd-5th


We had a muddy week!

1.       We performed our play.


2.       Friday was Amberiel’s last day.

3.       We took some art projects home.

4.       We changed our math wall from blue to red.

5.       We had our Wii reward from March on Thursday.

6.       The Packer table earned 25 minutes of free time, the Flower table earned two minutes of free time, and the Tiger table earned 16 minutes of free time.

7.       We got new Magic Tree House and Babysitter Club books.

8.       In guidance we made bully shields.

9.       We made flowers from our reading buddy artwork.

10.   Students that passed addition and subtraction tests, got to decorate a pineapple.

11.   In phy. ed. we bowled.

Monday, March 25, 2013

11 Things This Week - March 18th to 22nd


We had a fun week!

1. We made lantern eggs!

2. We made jungle leaves!

3. We learned about heat, light, and motion energy.

4. Some students got their picture taken for Family Math Day.


5. We took an energy test.

6. In phy. ed. we climbed ropes and did other stations.

7. We played "Doggie, Doggie, where's your bone?"

8. We practiced out play for music without our scripts or play books.

9. We studied adverbs for technology reading groups.

10. Our bonus words were Europe and Antarctica.

11. We learned about the continents.

Friday, March 15, 2013

13 Things We Did This Week - March 11th to March 15th

We had an exciting week!



1. We made leprechaun pictures.

2. We are learning about continents. This week we focused on North America.

3. We had our last student of the week, Evelynn.

4. Yesterday we had our pajama and hot chocolate day for February.

5. We read monster books about nouns, verbs, adjectives, addition, and subtraction.

6. Some students are learning to be 2nd grade students through lines.

7. We read with our reading buddies on Tuesday.

8. We met Zoe's baby brother, Mason.

9. We went to the art museum (aka the Art Space) on Monday.

10. We learned about energy.

11. Yesterday we listened to Mr. Wanek about Kodiak Island.

12. We practiced our play, which will be on April 5th at 1:00 pm.

13. Mrs. Blatterman helped us with our math tests.

Friday, March 8, 2013

13 Things We Did This Week - March 4th to March 8th

We had a cool week!

1. We took a language arts, compass, and spelling test on Friday.

2. We made 3-D rainbows.

3. We went to Spelling City on iPads. (We borrowed some from all over the school)

4. We finished our All About Me projects.

5. Mrs. S. was our guest teacher on Thursday.

6. We played Sink The Ship in phy. ed class.

7. Some of us completed our I'm Done chart.

8. We finished our garbage can pictures in art class.

9. We read Creepy Carrots in library class.

10. Mrs. Blatterman helped in our class on Friday.

11. We had FREE hot breakfast pizza on Thursday.

12. Some of us made paint palettes in art class.

13. Dr. Haack read to us.

Friday, March 1, 2013

13 Things This Week - February 15th to March 1st

We  had an awesome week!

1. We celebrated Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Day!

2. We made Dr. Seuss door hangers. (Shh...I'm READING!)

3. We made 3-D four leaf clovers and flowers (Luck, Hope, Love, and Faith)

4. We created rhyming hats.

5. We started our All About Me project.

6. We played Addition Go Fish during reading groups.

7. We played Subtraction Hopscotch during reading groups.

8. We made stories about the Civil War and the Berenstein Bears.

9. Some of us ate green eggs and "graham."

10. We learned a soccer game, which Ethan helped us earn from Homeworkland.

11. Mrs. Smith's husband, Sam, read Green Eggs and Ham to us. He also brought us donuts on Thursday.

12. We practiced our 2nd grade play on the stage.

13. We tried to use IXL, but the Internet was broke, so we drew our family on the computer program, Paint.

Friday, February 22, 2013

Things this Week - February 19th-22nd

We had an amazing week!

1. We created magnets.

2. We had Jump Rope for the Heart.

3. We finished our Spelling Bee. Our top five winners were Anna, Taylor, Ethan, Allison, and Justin.

4. We had no school on Monday.

5. We had a rough week. We earned no free time.

6. Mrs. Smith ordered some fun stuff from bonus points.

7. We learned about the presidents.

8. We received two new Magic Tree House books.

9. We made shadow silhouettes of our heads.

10. We learned about the Civil War.

11. Some of us received our February book orders.

12. We practiced addition with dice.


Friday, February 15, 2013

15 Things This Week - February 11th-15th

We had a fun week! Here are fifteen things we did:

1. We played bean bag addition.

2. We had our 100th day!

3. We earned 12 minutes of free time.

4. We made flowers for our teachers.

5. Dalton joined our classroom.

6. Some of us purchased Smencils.

7. We gave our bead hearts away as gifts.

8. We are practicing our second grade play in Music class.

9. We had in centers in phy. ed.

10. We found sugar ants on some of our 100th day projects.

11. We learned about symmetry.

12. We are learning about multiplication.

13. We finished our shields in art.

14. We had a Valentine's Day party.

15. We made a timeline about Old Abe.

Friday, February 8, 2013

This week - February 4th - 8th

We had a great week! Here are 10 things we did this week:

1. We had our popcorn, pajama, movie, and hot chocolate party on Friday.

2. From Homeworkland we earned a reward to see a special skill from Mrs. Smith.

3. We made hearts of people and pets we love.

4. Some of us brought our 100 day project in.

5. We found out that we will have a new student, Dalton.

6. We made our "Rosa Parks" signs.

7. We created Freedom Quilts.

8. We learned about time lines.

9. We learned a lot about freedom.

10. We presented our habitats.

Friday, February 1, 2013

10 Things This Week - 1/28 to 2/1

We had a cool week!

1. We made a Pete The Cat book.

2. We voted on whether the groundhog would see his shadow.

3. We earned our January reward.

4. We made heart bursts with Mrs. Campbell.

5. We played dribble knockout in gym.

6. We made a bar graph using dice.

7. We started bringing in our reading calendars and 100 day projects.

8. We did a fun circle graph project.

9. We earned a smiley face at recess and at line up time.



10. We had a lot of absent students this week. We miss you!

Friday, January 18, 2013

This week: January 14th-18th

Ten things we did this week!

1. We painted sun faces in art.

2. We did our "High Five For Fairness" march.

3. We took a lot of quarter two tests!

4. We made a card for our T.A., Faith. Today was her last day.

5. We read Charlotte's Web.

6. We watched Charlotte's Web.

7. We learned about batting in Phy. Ed.

8. We wrote letters to our reading buddies.

9. We made glitter webs.

10. We had early release today.

Friday, January 11, 2013

10 Things We Did This Week - January 7th to January 11th

We had a good week! Here are 10 things we did:

1. We got brand new bookshelves donated. Visit www.donorschoose.org/mrssmith121 to see our next project. We made thank you cards.

2. We made a "High 5 for Fairness" poster.

3. We talked about our Habitat Project. It is due on Monday!

4. We celebrated some summer 1/2 birthdays this week.

5. We made fairness hands for the Fairness March next week.

6. We changed our music time, so that we could work on a 2nd grade play.

7. In phy. ed. we played a fun game with balloons.

8. We learned how to spell character and friendship.

9. We went to http://www.learning.com/ in the computer lab.

10. We watched a movie about friendship called, Free Willy.

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Our Habitat Projects

Balloon Game

Friday, January 4, 2013

10 Things We Did This Week - January 2nd-4th

Although it was a short week, we still came up with 10 things we did this week.

1. We learned about mammals through a scavenger hunt.

2. We played a habitat game.

3. We learned about animal classification.

4. We have a habitat homework project due on January 14th.

5. We made long, short, and silent snowmen.

6. We made Zen Tie trees.

7. We created 2013 decoration.

8. We turned in our reading calendars. Next month we want to reach our goal.
9. We played a volleyball game in phy. ed.

10. We earned 12 minutes of free time.

Pictures coming soon...