3rd Grade is Tasty!

We have had many delicious days in 3rd grade lately. To celebrate Kansas Day, students learned about soil and were given a taste of Kansas soil in a cup. The cups had edible layers of soil: crushed chocolate chip cookies for bedrock, chocolate pudding for subsoil, and crushed Oreos for topsoil. It was the best dirt we've ever eaten!

Another one of our yummy treats was a taste of thunder cake. After reading the story "Thunder Cake" in class, Mrs. Perkins and Victoria made everyone the recipe to try. The recipe for this chocolate cake called for a can of puréed tomatoes. The kids couldn't believe that the cake didn't taste anything like tomatoes and they devoured this delicious dessert! Thank house much Victoria and Mrs. Perkins!!

In celebration of the upcoming Valentines holiday, students brought in candy bars. They worked with a partner to compare similarities and differences between their two candy bars.

We never knew 3rd grade could taste so good!

Christmas Party Fun!

We celebrated Christmas today with lots of laughter, delicious treats, and fun games! Thank you to the parents who were able to send goodies and/or help out with the party. We had a blast!

The students started off the party by "decorating" the trees (aka some of the kids in class). It was so funny to see what they were able to create in 4 minutes with streamers and stickers!

The final products!

The "trees" with their decorators

The "trees" have lost their needles!

 

 

After the game the students enjoyed some delicious Grinch punch, cupcakes, cake pops, and fun treat bags!

Tasty Arrays

3rd graders learned how to make arrays using a very yummy ingredient - M&M's! They worked together to create various arrays to display multiplication problems. Then came the best part - eating their work!

Kyler and Quentin building an array with their M&M's

Quentin

Brock and Wyatt enjoying their M&M's

Lily and Skylee working together to make an array

Lexi and Levi using great teamwork to build an array

Ashton and Danielle making their array

Brock and Wyatt making sure their array is nice and straight

Alyssa enjoying her M&M's

Danielle loves her snack!

Dalten and Alyssa looking over their work

Thomas and Shyloh, doing a great job working together to make their array

Courtney and Alina taking turns placing their M&M's

Talented 3rd Graders

Our 3rd graders are a very talented bunch! Today we awarded the winners of the annual Disguise the Turkey contest. Students were asked to create a disguise for their turkey and we were amazed at the creativity we saw! Each participant received an award allowing them to skip their homework for a whole week! 1st place winners received a certificate and a Sonic gift card. 

Look at our turkeys! 44 of our students participated!

All of the turkeys are so creative!

1st Place Winners! 

From 3C: Trenton

From 3A: Brody

From 3B: Gracie

3A also had another student pass their 9's today - way to go Alyssa!

Blue Ribbon Award

Marshall Elementary was awarded the National Blue Ribbon award in Washington DC on November 13th. Several teachers were able to attend the award ceremony in DC. We had a great time celebrating our amazing school!

The group of staff members who attended the ceremony in Washington DC.

Back row, left to right: Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Hosack, Mrs. Rucker, Mrs. Schwartz, Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Ball, Mr. Leis, Mrs. Lazar

Front row, left to right: Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Alonso, Mrs. Westerman, Mrs. Randle, Mrs. Duffy, Mrs. Barrett

Thankful Thoughts

It's November! Which means we begin to prepare for Thanksgiving and begin to think about all of the great things in our lives that we can be thankful for. Each day the 3rd graders think of something they are thankful for and write it on a turkey feather. Then they add it to their turkeys hanging in the hallway. It's so neat to watch as our turkeys' feathers grow with our thankful thoughts!