Writing: Peer Editing

The class has been working on a writing prompt for over a week now. We've taken it slow and focused on gradually building our story so that it has a lot of adjectives, vivid verbs, and figurative language. The class have been busy revising and editing their narrative piece.

Science: Volcano Experiment

We have been talking about Natural Resources and natural disasters. We made a class volcano which we named Mt. Bayley-wayley. Students observed how volcanoes erupt and how the land surrounding it changes after multiple eruptions.

Olympics: Final Competitions

Olympics: Our 1st place competitors

Here are our 1st place winners who will be competing against all of the other 3rd grade classes in the final competition. Good luck, athletes!!!

 Here are our 2 Partner Relay winners.

Long Jump (left) and Discus Winners (right).

Bobsled (left) and 30 meter dash (right) winners.

Olympics: Bobsled (Scooter) Races

The class had a blast with our "bobsled races" this afternoon. It was a perfect activity to end our week long Olympic team building events. I am so proud of my students for cheering everyone on and always putting in 100% when they competed. It was wonderful watching them congratulate a classmate, even when the winner bumped them out of 1st place.

I am so grateful and humbled by my students and their wonderful character. This week they showed teamwork, grit, perderverence, honesty, curiosity, and compassion. I am going to miss these kids next year when they move on to 4th grade.

Olympics: Discus toss

Today's Olympic event was the discus toss. We used frisbees to see how far we could throw them. Here is our before shot.

 Here is where all of their frisbees landed in our after shot.

Olympics: 30 meter dash

Here is our "before pic" for today's Olympic event, the 30 meter dash. Since the weather was not cooperating with us, we had to hold this event indoors. Thankfully we planned to compete while 4th grade was at Specials so we wouldn't have too much distraction.

These kids are VERY fast! I was surprised to see them move so quickly, especially since they are not normally allowed to run in the hall. I'm glad that they are responsible students and I know I can trust them to make good choices.