Spirit Awards

Today we got our 14th student (though 2 were sick so we still only had 12) and it was a nice change. Almost everyone did an excellent job getting the class ready and making Cole feel welcome as soon as he got to our class. Great job!

Today we continued our journey through the body systems by looking at the digestive system. For the next 2 weeks or so, we will be learning about the digestive system and having a nutrition and health unit. The students seem to really like these activities and have really enjoyed learning about the human body. Today they were especially giggly when we learned where the left-over food leaves the body. Oh goodness, did that turn everyone three shades of red and start the giggling! :)

In P.E. today students had the endurance run where there is a 20 minute time limit and students are asked to run as long as they can for that 20 minutes. Their running does not have to be at a full sprint but anything more than walking is fantastic. The third graders did an amazing job today with more than half of the class running for the FULL 20 minutes. Awesome work!

Today we also had time to vote for what our spirit award will be. As I mentioned earlier, our class won the spirit award for keeping our hallways and lunch area clean for 6 weeks (though not in a row). Great job for that award! So, our options were to have a movie and snack party, or to have a game day one afternoon next week. Almost unanimously everyone chose the movie day. So, next week we will be having a movie time and students voted to bring snacks to share. Tomorrow I will be sending home a note asking what kinds of snacks you would volunteer to bring if you chose to. There is no requirement to bring food to share, but if food is brought, there must be enough for 14 students to share, please.

Tomorrow we will continue reading and finish up our fairy tales and folk tales pocket books and continue studying for our spelling test on Friday. The word meaning seem to be pretty easy for students which I am very glad to see!

Get plenty of rest and drink plenty of water. See you tomorrow!