Today we were invited to make Valentine bags with our Kindergarten friends! It was a fun time for all! :-) Here is a picture of us in the kindergarteners' classroom. Part of the project was to tie string through holes to make a pocket. I am amazed at how many of my third graders do not know how to tie.....Is this true for everyone out there or is is just something that got lost for my students??
Tomorrow we will have our Valentine's Day party - just a small little thing as I am in no way an expert party planner, but it should be enjoyable.
Wednesday looks like a normal day as of right now!
Thursday we take our first field trip to the Sanitary District. I found out that my students have never been on a field trip before...That makes me a little nervous. It is my first time leading a field trip. And the other third grade class could not come on the same day as us so it just me. Thankfully, I do have seven parents going so that should help things. The parents are wonderful too so I'm sure they will be a marvelous help! I have begun the whole "how to act on a field trip" speech with my students. Today (since they couldn't think of any thing else) I told them who was riding in who's car, we made a list of things to do on a field trip and things to not do on a field trip, and I told them they were going to be learning on the field trip. This last one came as a big surprise to most of them. I told them they would have a little assignment on it afterwards (nothing big - just a response type thing) and they looked shocked! I then continued to explain that field trips are not just for fun, but for learning too - FUN learning, but learning nonetheless. They were shocked once again...I think the excitement level went down a bit (which was fine for me because they were out of their seats excited before hand). Welcome to 3rd grade, dearies...this isn't like the pumpkin patch in kinder. It will be a fun easy field trip but I'm a little nervous about it.
In other news: Wall decorations are going up. I'm not a 100% happy with how they look right now and so have not taken a picture of our solar system wall and recycling wall....Hopefully inspiration will strike soon. Here is a picture of our reading corner ready for Presidents' Day. The not under our crazy face picture says "Is there a future president in our class?" :-)
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