Christmas Program 2012 - 3rd
The above link will take you to a video that was created by Isaac and Maddie about the play last night. Enjoy!
Clark
Friday, December 7, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Learning Around the School
On Monday we started rounding. We went outside and there was a BIG numberline. We partnered up and our partner gave us a number and we went to that number and we told our partner if we had to round up or round down. Then we went inside and we used a balloon to help us round. Mrs. Clark blew up a balloon and stuck it between her thumb and pointer finger. Then we looked at a number and we looked at the ones place and we counted to that number. Like 68 - we counted 8 to see if our balloon went UP and away. IF it did - we knew the number 68 would round UP to 70. If the number was 53, we counted to 3 and the balloon stayed in Ms. Clark's hand. So we knew the number 53 would round down to 50.
In gym we are learning about basketball. We bounce the ball and pass the ball. In Music we are practicing for our Christmas Play. It is called "Santa's going to Broadway". It is about Mrs. Clause and Santa putting together a play and each person plays their own self. At the end they decide to go home.
On Tuesday we voted for the President of the United States. We got a registration card from Ms. Clark and took it down to the library and gave it to a 5th grader in Ms. Campbell's class. The 5th graders marked our names off. This helped them to know that we only voted once. Then we went to another 5th grader and we voted on an i-pad for either President Obama or Mitt Romney. At our school Mitt Romney won BUT in the real election for the country - Obama won. Some of us are not happy.
After voting we went upstairs to the 5th grade hall. There is a big container that has a cocoon inside. Coach Rogers found a HUGE caterpillar in his garden at home. He caught it and brought it to school to share with us. The caterpiller has been here for two weeks and it is in the final stages of Pupa. It will soon change into a moth. The wingspan of this moth can get to be 4-5 inches across. The moth is called a Tabacco Hornworm.
On Tuesday we voted for the President of the United States. We got a registration card from Ms. Clark and took it down to the library and gave it to a 5th grader in Ms. Campbell's class. The 5th graders marked our names off. This helped them to know that we only voted once. Then we went to another 5th grader and we voted on an i-pad for either President Obama or Mitt Romney. At our school Mitt Romney won BUT in the real election for the country - Obama won. Some of us are not happy.
After voting we went upstairs to the 5th grade hall. There is a big container that has a cocoon inside. Coach Rogers found a HUGE caterpillar in his garden at home. He caught it and brought it to school to share with us. The caterpiller has been here for two weeks and it is in the final stages of Pupa. It will soon change into a moth. The wingspan of this moth can get to be 4-5 inches across. The moth is called a Tabacco Hornworm.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Happy Halloween!
This week is Drug Free Week or Red Ribbon Week at Miller.
On Monday we made bracelets that are red, blue and green. The red reminds us of courage. Blue stands for loyality. Green is honesty. We had to braid the bracelets. When we braided the bracelets some of us couldn't do it. We helped our friends to make the bracelets.
Today (Tuesday) we dressed up as our "dream job." In our class we had 3 teachers, 3 football players, a sleepy head, soccer player, soccer coach, veterinerian, a baseball player, a cowgirl, a software developer, a Dax and a KC.
Tomorrow is CHARACTER DAY - Dress up like a character from a book. Book parade will be at 8:00 at Miller. Tomorrow is also Halloween. The party will be from 1:30 to 2:30 in our classroom. Come and celebrate with us! Be safe out there!
Thursday - We are wearing yellow or green (Ethan Lipps favorite colors.) And we are bringing shampoo to donate to Manna House.
Friday is wear red, white, and blue for the Veterans Program at 8:00 am at Miller.
This week we have been writing stories about monsters. We will hopefully have a story for you by Friday.
In math we have been reviewing. We had a benchmark test today.
Pumpkin fun - today we got to play with pumpkins. We got to figure out how heavy our pumpkins were and line them up from heaviest to lightest. We then put a graph on the board and predicted how heavy a pumpkin had to be before it sunk. Four people thought 1 pound. Five people thought 3 pounds. Four people thought four pounds and ONE PERSON thought a pumpkin would have to be at LEAST 16 pounds before it sunk!
AFTER the sink/float time with pumpkins - we found out we were all not correct. Pumpkins DON'T sink! Pumpkins float because they have air stored up inside of them.
Thanks for reading our blog!!
Clark's class
On Monday we made bracelets that are red, blue and green. The red reminds us of courage. Blue stands for loyality. Green is honesty. We had to braid the bracelets. When we braided the bracelets some of us couldn't do it. We helped our friends to make the bracelets.
Today (Tuesday) we dressed up as our "dream job." In our class we had 3 teachers, 3 football players, a sleepy head, soccer player, soccer coach, veterinerian, a baseball player, a cowgirl, a software developer, a Dax and a KC.
Tomorrow is CHARACTER DAY - Dress up like a character from a book. Book parade will be at 8:00 at Miller. Tomorrow is also Halloween. The party will be from 1:30 to 2:30 in our classroom. Come and celebrate with us! Be safe out there!
Thursday - We are wearing yellow or green (Ethan Lipps favorite colors.) And we are bringing shampoo to donate to Manna House.
Friday is wear red, white, and blue for the Veterans Program at 8:00 am at Miller.
This week we have been writing stories about monsters. We will hopefully have a story for you by Friday.
In math we have been reviewing. We had a benchmark test today.
Pumpkin fun - today we got to play with pumpkins. We got to figure out how heavy our pumpkins were and line them up from heaviest to lightest. We then put a graph on the board and predicted how heavy a pumpkin had to be before it sunk. Four people thought 1 pound. Five people thought 3 pounds. Four people thought four pounds and ONE PERSON thought a pumpkin would have to be at LEAST 16 pounds before it sunk!
AFTER the sink/float time with pumpkins - we found out we were all not correct. Pumpkins DON'T sink! Pumpkins float because they have air stored up inside of them.
Thanks for reading our blog!!
Clark's class
Friday, October 26, 2012
Our busy week....
This week has been a busy week!
In reading we were reading the final chapters of Ramona Quimby, Age 8. She was doing a book report on a book that she didn't like. So she decided to sell it like a TV commerical. Some of the words she used were words that were not all the way true like "This book makes ALL kids smile." and "Kids ask for this book by NAME!". Ramona forgot what she was going to say at the end of her book report so she said the only thing that popped into her head and it was, "I can't believe I read the WHOLE thing!"
Later, Ramona went to the restaurant and this guy asked her if she had been nice to her mother. Ramona thought that it was none of his business. But when the family was ready to pay - the waitress said that the man had already paid for their food. This made the family feel surprised because Ramona hadn't acted very nice to him and he still thought they were a good family and paid for them. Ramona's family didn't have a lot of money so they felt lucky.
In math we have been working on subtraction, addition, and graphing. Some of us liked working with the bar graph because it was fun to try to figure out the questions with the information shown. We had to use the information to make a bar graph, too. Some of us liked addition. The following picture is of some of us subtracting and adding on a number line.
This week we also had fun drawing math problems on our desk with dry erase markers! Some of our desks were stained a color but eventually our desk will be clean.
At lunch today we told jokes. Some of us didn't like our lunch because our apples were not great. Mrs. Clark got to eat with us because we had a different schedule today. Some of our jokes were really funny. Like:
Q: Why did Perry the Platypus cross the road?
A: Because the chicken had the day off.
Knock, Knock.
Who's there?
Cow go.
Cow go who?
NO! Cow go MOO!
Knock, Knock.
Who's there?
Owls.
Owls who?
THAT's RIGHT! Owls WHOO!
Q: What did the casket say to the other casket?
A: Was that YOU coffin??
Q: Where do library books sleep?
A: Under their covers!!
Today we went outside and we played with the 5th graders! It was COLD outside! Below is a picture of some of us with RED faces!
In gym today we played Survivor. It is one of our favorite games. We get a ball and throw it at another person. If we get hit, we are out and another team mate goes in. We also did speed stacks. Speed stacks are little cups that you stack up into a tower and then quickly race to stack and un-stack. It is fun to race other people.
We also had Fun Friday. We get Fun Friday sometimes when we have time for it. Sometimes we are really busy so we don't get to it. BUT - sometimes we do. We can play computers, write on the board and blog. We get Fun Friday because we are an AWESOME class!
It is homecoming and our football reader, Aaron came to read to our class a book called Monster Mash! We loved the book! The picture below is of our class with Aaron and his football poster. We wished him good luck!
We also had the book buddies come up from Ms. Cooper's class. These are two of the pictures.
This 3rd grade picture was taken to show our Panther Pride!
Posted by:
McKenna, Ryker, and Kennedy
In reading we were reading the final chapters of Ramona Quimby, Age 8. She was doing a book report on a book that she didn't like. So she decided to sell it like a TV commerical. Some of the words she used were words that were not all the way true like "This book makes ALL kids smile." and "Kids ask for this book by NAME!". Ramona forgot what she was going to say at the end of her book report so she said the only thing that popped into her head and it was, "I can't believe I read the WHOLE thing!"
Later, Ramona went to the restaurant and this guy asked her if she had been nice to her mother. Ramona thought that it was none of his business. But when the family was ready to pay - the waitress said that the man had already paid for their food. This made the family feel surprised because Ramona hadn't acted very nice to him and he still thought they were a good family and paid for them. Ramona's family didn't have a lot of money so they felt lucky.
At lunch today we told jokes. Some of us didn't like our lunch because our apples were not great. Mrs. Clark got to eat with us because we had a different schedule today. Some of our jokes were really funny. Like:
Q: Why did Perry the Platypus cross the road?
A: Because the chicken had the day off.
Knock, Knock.
Who's there?
Cow go.
Cow go who?
NO! Cow go MOO!
Knock, Knock.
Who's there?
Owls.
Owls who?
THAT's RIGHT! Owls WHOO!
Q: What did the casket say to the other casket?
A: Was that YOU coffin??
Q: Where do library books sleep?
A: Under their covers!!
Today we went outside and we played with the 5th graders! It was COLD outside! Below is a picture of some of us with RED faces!
In gym today we played Survivor. It is one of our favorite games. We get a ball and throw it at another person. If we get hit, we are out and another team mate goes in. We also did speed stacks. Speed stacks are little cups that you stack up into a tower and then quickly race to stack and un-stack. It is fun to race other people.
We also had Fun Friday. We get Fun Friday sometimes when we have time for it. Sometimes we are really busy so we don't get to it. BUT - sometimes we do. We can play computers, write on the board and blog. We get Fun Friday because we are an AWESOME class!
It is homecoming and our football reader, Aaron came to read to our class a book called Monster Mash! We loved the book! The picture below is of our class with Aaron and his football poster. We wished him good luck!
We also had the book buddies come up from Ms. Cooper's class. These are two of the pictures.
This 3rd grade picture was taken to show our Panther Pride!
Posted by:
McKenna, Ryker, and Kennedy
Friday, October 19, 2012
Awesome Class Week
This morning we started with an assembly in the gym. We have assemblies every Friday because we get together as a school and talk and award things like Miller MVP and Miller All-star. Mrs. Bass led our meeting today because Mrs. Van was not at school. During the assembly we had to do the Pledge of Allegiance and the school song.
After the assembly our football reader read to us. Our football reader is in 11th grade. He is number 18 and his name is Aaron. The book he read today is called I Need My Monster. It was about a boy, who got a note that his monster that lives under his bed, was on vacation. The boy couldn't go to sleep without his monster. So 5 other monsters came to help, but they were not scary enough to make him go to sleep. Then, after the 5th one - the boy's monster came back. They missed each other.
In gym we learned volleyball and we played Survivor. In Survivor - we wait in one of four lines and the first person in each line goes and gets a ball. When coach Rogers says, "Go" we try to hit other people from other teams with the ball. IF you get hit - you have to go to the end of the line and the next person in line goes.
We played a game of volleyball with 9 on 9. The yellow team won.
After specials we went upstairs and our book buddies came upstairs. We read to each other.
We did an experiment in class. We went outside and we poured water on the ground and we circled it with chalk. We waited for 10 minutes to see what happened to the water. The water evaporated on some of our circles. The water that is liquid and the sun heated it up and the water evaporated and turned into a gas.
We also put chocolate outside on a napkin to see what happened if we left it on the ground for ten minutes. The chocolate melted for some of us. The chocolate turned from a solid into a liquid because the sun heated it up.
We read more of the story Ramona Quimby Age 8. Today in our story Ramona and Beezus have to cook dinner because in the last chapter they wouldn't eat their dinner. As their punishment, they had to cook. When they cooked they did their own recipe and ended up liking it - kind of. They put chili peppers, yougart, and chicken into a pan and cooked it. Ramona forgave her mom for not cooking her egg that she had at school.
We went out to recess. Some of us played tag. Some of us played rocket-rocket-alien. It is a game that is kind of like duck, duck, goose, but instead it is rocket-rocket-alien. But if you get sent to the mush pot it is called "the alien dungeon."
In math we looked at ages again. We NEED to know the ages of 8 family members on MONDAY. Please write this in our planner OR send us with a note. We will work with the numbers on MONDAY.
Have a good weekend!
McKenna, Ryker, Alyssa, Maddie, and Timothy
After the assembly our football reader read to us. Our football reader is in 11th grade. He is number 18 and his name is Aaron. The book he read today is called I Need My Monster. It was about a boy, who got a note that his monster that lives under his bed, was on vacation. The boy couldn't go to sleep without his monster. So 5 other monsters came to help, but they were not scary enough to make him go to sleep. Then, after the 5th one - the boy's monster came back. They missed each other.
In gym we learned volleyball and we played Survivor. In Survivor - we wait in one of four lines and the first person in each line goes and gets a ball. When coach Rogers says, "Go" we try to hit other people from other teams with the ball. IF you get hit - you have to go to the end of the line and the next person in line goes.
We played a game of volleyball with 9 on 9. The yellow team won.
After specials we went upstairs and our book buddies came upstairs. We read to each other.
We did an experiment in class. We went outside and we poured water on the ground and we circled it with chalk. We waited for 10 minutes to see what happened to the water. The water evaporated on some of our circles. The water that is liquid and the sun heated it up and the water evaporated and turned into a gas.
We also put chocolate outside on a napkin to see what happened if we left it on the ground for ten minutes. The chocolate melted for some of us. The chocolate turned from a solid into a liquid because the sun heated it up.
We read more of the story Ramona Quimby Age 8. Today in our story Ramona and Beezus have to cook dinner because in the last chapter they wouldn't eat their dinner. As their punishment, they had to cook. When they cooked they did their own recipe and ended up liking it - kind of. They put chili peppers, yougart, and chicken into a pan and cooked it. Ramona forgave her mom for not cooking her egg that she had at school.
We went out to recess. Some of us played tag. Some of us played rocket-rocket-alien. It is a game that is kind of like duck, duck, goose, but instead it is rocket-rocket-alien. But if you get sent to the mush pot it is called "the alien dungeon."
In math we looked at ages again. We NEED to know the ages of 8 family members on MONDAY. Please write this in our planner OR send us with a note. We will work with the numbers on MONDAY.
Have a good weekend!
McKenna, Ryker, Alyssa, Maddie, and Timothy
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
October 17 - our words
Lets begin by going backwards, this isn't a private blog. If you have questions about that, please come and see me and I will explain.
The following post is written by my students.
Today in gym we worked on volleyball. It was fun. We did the same thing in gym on Monday that we did today. In gym we played games of volleyball and we practiced setting, bumping, and serving.
In class we are reading Ramona Quimby Age 8. It is about this girl who is finally in 3rd grade. She moved to a new school. She is NOT happy today because of what the teacher said about her. Ramona went to lunch in the story and cracked an egg on her head that she THOUGHT was boiled, but it wasn't. Ramona had to go to the office to clean it. Ms. Larson, the secretary, helped her clean up. While Ramona was in the bathroom in the office, she overheard Ms. Larson talking to Ms. Whaley, her teacher. Ms. Whaley said that Ramona was a show-off and a nuisance in the cafeteria. Being a nuisance means that you are being annoying and obnoxious. Ramona had not tried to be a show off or a nuisance. She was just trying to fit in with her friends. Ramona's MOM forgot to boil the egg. It wasn't Ramona's fault. Ramona felt very sad. She didn't want to go to class because she was afraid she would get made fun of and she didn't want to see her teacher.
IF that ever happened to us - we would tell our mom. We would feel heartbroken and very, very sad. We would probably just want to go home. BUT - that would never happen in Ms. Clark's class!
Next we read Time For Kids. In the magazine we read articles like "Tiny, Tiny, Dinosaur" about a REALLY tiny dinosaur that is no bigger than a cat. We also read "Its a Great Pumpkin" about a pumpkin that weighs almost 2,009 pounds. It won a competition and won $15,500 in prize money. We read "A Long Day" was about Chicago schools making their school days longer. They had the shortest school day in the country. Now they have a longer one. We liked reading this magazine.
These pictures are from recess. At recess today we played on the swings, played football, played with our friends and ran.
In class, we continued work on our number lines. We read a story about a boy named Carlos who turning 8. We have worked with the ages of the people in his family. We found out that we can add and subtract on a number line.
Then we reviewed money. We talked about pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. We learned a review cheer for quarters. (See movie. - OR just ask us to perform!)
Enjoy your day!
Thanks!
Clark's Class
We also did a money cheer to review money.
The following post is written by my students.
Today in gym we worked on volleyball. It was fun. We did the same thing in gym on Monday that we did today. In gym we played games of volleyball and we practiced setting, bumping, and serving.
In class we are reading Ramona Quimby Age 8. It is about this girl who is finally in 3rd grade. She moved to a new school. She is NOT happy today because of what the teacher said about her. Ramona went to lunch in the story and cracked an egg on her head that she THOUGHT was boiled, but it wasn't. Ramona had to go to the office to clean it. Ms. Larson, the secretary, helped her clean up. While Ramona was in the bathroom in the office, she overheard Ms. Larson talking to Ms. Whaley, her teacher. Ms. Whaley said that Ramona was a show-off and a nuisance in the cafeteria. Being a nuisance means that you are being annoying and obnoxious. Ramona had not tried to be a show off or a nuisance. She was just trying to fit in with her friends. Ramona's MOM forgot to boil the egg. It wasn't Ramona's fault. Ramona felt very sad. She didn't want to go to class because she was afraid she would get made fun of and she didn't want to see her teacher.
IF that ever happened to us - we would tell our mom. We would feel heartbroken and very, very sad. We would probably just want to go home. BUT - that would never happen in Ms. Clark's class!
Next we read Time For Kids. In the magazine we read articles like "Tiny, Tiny, Dinosaur" about a REALLY tiny dinosaur that is no bigger than a cat. We also read "Its a Great Pumpkin" about a pumpkin that weighs almost 2,009 pounds. It won a competition and won $15,500 in prize money. We read "A Long Day" was about Chicago schools making their school days longer. They had the shortest school day in the country. Now they have a longer one. We liked reading this magazine.
These pictures are from recess. At recess today we played on the swings, played football, played with our friends and ran.
In class, we continued work on our number lines. We read a story about a boy named Carlos who turning 8. We have worked with the ages of the people in his family. We found out that we can add and subtract on a number line.
Then we reviewed money. We talked about pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. We learned a review cheer for quarters. (See movie. - OR just ask us to perform!)
Enjoy your day!
Thanks!
Clark's Class
We also did a money cheer to review money.
The picture was taken last Friday when the firefighters came to visit our school. This is our class. When the firefighters were here, they told us all the things we needed to know about what to do if we had a fire at our house or at school. For example, we need to know our address and street, we need to know our family meeting place, and we NEVER go back inside the fire. We learned that they are there to help us and when we see them they may look scary all dressed up, but they are the same people that came to talk to us. They were nice. Third grade EVEN got a Miller Bell because WE were the best class of students. We listed to the firefighters very well. They thought we were the best audience!
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