Clowning Around

We will be taking a trip to the Circus tomorrow! So today we learned how the performers are able to balance in the air. Mrs. Yoder showed off her skills by balancing a plastic bird on the tip of her finger, the end of a pencil and even her nose! The students each had a chance to practice balancing the plastic bird before starting our experiment.

The students were then given a clown to decorate and to see if they could balance it on their fingers and noses. Our brilliant scientists quickly figured out that they needed to add weight to the hands of their clowns so they taped a penny to each hand. Then the balancing fun began!

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!