Celebration

How do you celebrate a National Blue Ribbon Award?  With a spirit convocation, of course!

PENGUINS!!

We are learning about everything penguin right now in our class.  Check out this link that directs you to different penguin webcams:

http://penguingeek.wordpress.com/web-cams/

What kind of penguin information can you bring to the classroom? 

Indiana Ice

Over the past few weeks, we have been lucky to have players from the Indiana Ice hockey team visit us. The players came as part of their Reading Caravan program.  During each visit, the players read a few books to us and then talked about what it is like to play hockey for the Ice.  They also brought in pieces of the equipment to share.  Our students always had great questions for the players.  We all enjoyed the visits very much.  We look forward to following our new friends throughout their hockey season.  To find out more about the Indiana Ice, check out their website at http://www.indianaice.com/

We Are Thankful for Our Friends

We think the picture says it all.  Happy Thanksgiving!!

Veterans Day

Today we honored our Veterans with a school wide program.  It was filled with songs, a skit, a wonderful speaker and many acknowledgements.  There was so much pride in our school today.  Thank you to all veterans for the sacrifices you have made for us to be free!

Fountains, Riley, Badges and Sweet Potatoes

Let's see... what has been going on in Room 205?  A LOT!!  Last week we had our third grade music program, "Fall Harvest."  All the third graders did a fabulous job singing, dancing and playing instruments.  We couldn't get the songs about sweet potatoes and pumpkins out of our head.  What a great show!  Also, our class has been studying about James Whitcomb Riley and his writing.  Some of our favorite poems were The Raggedy Man and Little Orphant Annie.  We love how Mr. Riley wrote how the people talked.

This past week we had a visit by one of the local police officers.  He read a great book to us called, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs.  The book was interesting and the officer was really funny.  He talked to us about his job, too.  Finally, we had our first Scientist of the Week experiment.  V.  decided to show us what happens when you combine Diet Coke and Mentos.  The picture says it all!  Good thing we did this experiment outside!

Fall Break is coming up soon and we are all looking forward to some much needed rest.  Keep visiting our blog as we share more happenings from our classroom!

Globetrotter Visit

Wow! Yesterday, Dizzy Grant from the world famous Harlem Globetrotters visited our school.  He said that the Globetrotters have not lost a game since 1971.  That is 40 years!  Dizzy came to visit to talk to us about being good kids.  He taught us the word "acronym."  The acronym he taught us was C.H.E.E.R.  This stands for Cooperation, Health, Effort, Enthusiasm and Responsibility.  Dizzy also showed us some of his cool tricks.  He spun the basketball on his head and his finger.  He did it so fast, we couldn't get a picture!  Dizzy also bounced the ball on the floor and then caught it on his back.  We had a great time learning with Dizzy.  If you want to learn more about Dizzy and the Harlem Globetrotters, check out their website at http://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/