Door decoration contest

We decorated our door this week because we're having a school wide contest. To win the kids do a lot & not the teachers doing a lot to make it look so good. Our door says "Chill out with a good book" and we made snow people reading books and we made snowflakes to go around the door!

By Stu and Savy

Choir concert

Today we went to a concert. Fifth grade were singing some holiday songs. One of those songs was in a different language, one of the songs was a pop song and one of the songs was" T'was the night before Christmas ". If you want to see some singers, go to the bottom of this blog.

By Stu & Savy

ABC 17

We went on a field trip Monday and we had so much fun. We saw tv cameras, we saw a place where people talked about weather, we saw how people communicated with reporters we even made our own little reports. If you want to see pictures of the news station please check the bottom of our blog.

By Savy & Stu

Writing

We started a new topic in writing. It is called how to writing. In how to writing we tell and show different things that we know how to do. If you want to see some examples of the how to writings please look at our pictures in our picollage  right under this writing.

By Savy and Stu

Building Germs

This week we made germs they are made of cotten balls, buttons, popsicle sticks, spaghetti, and markers. They look mean scary and they have things on their body that mach their symptoms. Some of are symptoms were runny nose, headache, stomachache, and sore throat. Look at our photos to see Dayton and Stu's germ. 

By Stu and Savy

Health

In health we have learned that there are 2 kinds of germs. One of them is bacteria and the other one is virus. We also learned that some diseases are not infectious. Colds and the flu can spread cancer and heart disease can not spread. In are class everybody has had a cold. Nobody has had heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. We also learned how to explain disease. We cut the words in half like this, dis-ease. Dis means not and ease means comfortable if you put those words together it means that disease means not comfortable illness.

By Stu and Savy

Read Aloud

We just finished the book "Small Steps" by Peg Kehret.  It was about how she had polio when she was twelve. She started learning to walk again. Each day she took six steps and then did seven, eight and nine and soon she was walking! She showed Dr. Bevis she could walk and he was very proud. Then she went home after seven months.

By Savy and Stu

Biomes

We made biomes. We went to a website by using Qrafter and took a picture of one of the QR codes. Some options of some biomes were Forest, tundra, aquatic, desert and grassland. We made trioramas by taking a piece of construction paper and folding it into a triangle shape.  Then we looked up information about our biomes on the IPad's. Then we cut out animals from construction paper and made our biomes on the triangle.

By Gauri

Kindergarten buddies!

Last Friday we had kindergarten buddies! We had to read our kindergarten buddie a book and when we finished the book we let them pick out a book out from their classroom.  They are coming to our class on Halloween to read and do an art project. 

By Quin and Gauri 

Fun Fest

Today is the Cougar Fun Fest! The game in our class is Roller Bowler.  Some other things you may do are the raffle baskets, bounce house, face painting, hair dying, putt putt, cake walk and more!

Read Aloud

We started a new read aloud book today and it's called "The Secret of Robbers Cave". It's about three kids who go to an island called Lost Island trying to find out the old legend. We'll tell you more tomorrow!

By Quin & Gauri

Stu for student council

For this trimester 3 people ran for student council. But there can only be 2 though😭Stu, Quin and Gauri. Stu said "if you vote for me I will shave MU into the back of my head".  He said that because he is an Illinois fan. Stu and Quin won the election.  The first student council meeting is later this month.

By Quin and Gauri

Fish

We have 6 fish in our class room. The red one is named Chill, 3 Yellow fish and 3 Green fish none of the Green and Yellow fish have names.

By Quin and Gauri

Cursive

We just started writing in our handwriting books yesterday! We wrote in our handwriting books yesterday after Read aloud and silent reading time.The handwriting books even taught us how to hold a pencil while you are writing in your handwriting book!  

By Gauri Mehta

Read aloud

Today we started a new read aloud called "Calendar Club and the Back to School Burglar" written by Nancy Star.  Casey, Loen and Dotty are trying to find the bugler who stole the prizes, the lollipop tree and the whip cream pies.

Written by Quin & Gauri

The Ned Show

Today we had an outdoor assembly and our guest speaker was Ned. Ned taught us to be a champion! Here's how to be a champion at school or home: Never give up, Encourage others, Do your best! Along with the message to be a champion, there was a yo-yo demonstration! Here are a few pictures!

Terrific Thursday!

Today each table group worked cooperatively to build a marshmallow tower! Everyone worked together as a team and was successful!

First day!

We've had a great start to our year, what a fantastic group of kids! Here's a snapshot of our day!

What a Great Year

Dear Parents,

     Happy end of the year! We all have mixed emotions, but no matter what, we had a great year, and hope that you have a great summer!

From: Bloggers, Allison Schooley & Sydnie Tidwell :)







What a Great Year

Farmer's Market

Farmer's Market



Here's an animoto of Farmer's market created by Allison and Sydnie!

Book Trailers (playlist)

Dear Parents,
Here are the book trailers we've been working on.  Enjoy watching them!

Baker Commercials

Here are our Farmer's Market commercials!  Enjoy

Poetry Share!

Dear Parents,

      Today, we had a poetry share since we have studied poems for so long. We made poetry books. At the poetry share, we all lined up in line order at the side of the room. Some kids volunteered to explain what type of poem is which. Then we all shared 2 poems, one at a time. There were a lot of different themes. After we all shared a couple poems, we went back to our tables. All the parents and the kids looked at other poetry books and left comments. I loved doing the poetry share!

                    By: Allison Schooley & Kate Hoyt

Lynda's Video

My students Sydnie and Allison made another amazing short animoto. The are talented and creative little third  grade girls.











Lynda's Video

Rock and Roll!

Tuesday in music class I had the privilege of watching my talented third graders perform! I was amazed by their talent! Here's a few pictures of their performance! Some people wore poodle skirts and others had different kind of a old type style.

Mrs. Baker's Third Grade Class

Allison and Sydnie did a fantastic job using animoto to create a short video of our class!  They are talented children!   View and enjoy!





Lynda's Video

Music

Dear Parents, 

     Last week we saw these two college students their names were Blaire and Rachel. Last Saturday they preformed a show called Pinocchio. They were both in the show. We got tickets on Friday. In a part of the show the two girls told us to act like a old person and other things. In a part of the show the two girls made some people freeze in front of the classes, and the two girls asked what the three kids looked like to the classes. It was a blast I hope they do it again next year because it was so much fun!

By: Sydnie Tidwell & Allison Schooley

Math Update!

Dear Parents, 

          We are giving you an update of what we have been doing in math because we haven't blogged about its very recently. Last week we started learning about Measurement. Also a couple of weeks of go we started learning about gallons, pints, quarts and other thing since the past few weeks. Our class has been doing a lot of measurements lately. It has been incredibly fun. We have this thing called a math book that's were all our lessons are for us to do the math in for example there's: 15-1 which is in the right top hand corner one more thing for a example in the top left hand corner that is the front of the cover of my class math book. It has been a fun time doing math with Mrs. Baker she rocks.

           By: Sydnie Tidwell & Alison Schooley ;)

Poetry

Dear Parents,

   Last week we started poetry in writing. We have learned about Haikus and we have also started learning about Tankas. Today we started acrostic. Only some people  got to do acrostic and some people did not get to start acrostic. A haiku is a poem that has a pattern of 5, 7, 5. A tanka is two haikus squashed together! An acrostic poem is where you make a word by stacking the letters on top of each other. Then you connect a phrase to each letter in the word. The phrase has to do something with the original word. Each person picked a theme to write all their poems on. Then we came up with topics for that theme to write individual poems with. My name is Allison and my theme is dreams. Some topics for that theme are good dreams, nightmares, and crazy dreams. My name is Sydnie and my theme is the Zoo. Some topics I have for my theme are giraffes and gorillas. Everybody will put their poems together to make a poetry book. So then everybody will have their own poetry book with all their poems in it. My name is Kate and my theme is summer, and some topics I have for my theme are popsicles and the beach. But that is what we have been doing in writing!

                           By: Allison Schooley & Kate Hoyt & Sydnie Tidwell ;)

Money Bank

Dear Parents, 

       A couple of weeks ago we started this thing called a money bank. The dollars for the money bank have different kinds of dogs on them. The dollars Mrs. Baker has is 20, 10, 5, and 1's. They're called puppy dollars. Mrs. Baker gave us this money book where we record our money. Mrs.Baker stapled a bag in our money book where we keep our money. The things we get our money for is bonuses, homework, jobs ( classroom jobs), and other things.

By: Sydnie Tidwell & Allison Schooley ;)

Bethel Park

Dear Parents, here are some pictures from our field trip to bethel park! 

Our trip to Bethel Park started with a long walk!>

<Most of the things people got on their faces were animals or at least facial hair.......Me, sydnie got bushy eyebrows, sideburns, mustache, and a beard. Me, Allison, decided to look like a tiger.

     The field trip was split into stations. One was fishing. Here is a pic of Merrik with a fish that he caught.

                                                                                        

<Another station had Bochi ball and horse shoes. This is Kate playing a game of horse shoes in action.                                                                                                  

This is the arts and crafts station. At one picnic table, you could make visors. Here they are making bracelets

Here is a snapshot of Natalie hoola-hooping at a games station.

Here is a picture of our class playing " Over and Under ". We are
playing this at a relay station.











                                                                    Here is a picture of me, Allison, getting my face painted. By the way, some others are watching.

Making Ecosystems!

Dear Parents,

        This week we made our ecosystems. We have to use three bottles to make one ecosystem.  Apparently all the fish died on the first day so we had to get new one but when the ecosystem came to my table the fish bobbed at the top. Next day they both died again. We haven't named the fish yet. The bottom things in the ecosystem are a dead fish, elodea, snails, and gravel. At the top of the ecosystem there was dead leaves, roly poly's, worms, grass seeds, gravel, soil, and fabric. The Ecosystems  were a fun project!!!!!!!

               Allison Schooley & Sydnie Tidwell & Mia Thomas ;)

Making Board Games!

Dear Parents,

            This week we have started to create game boards. We also created instructions, and game pieces. To create the boards we had to have two people making the board also we had to plan the board game on a piece of notebook paper. After Mrs. Baker checked our plan, we started making the actual game on a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG piece of colored paper. We worked on our game boards for at least two days. Mrs. Baker said the partners had to decide who got to take the game board home so that one person could take the game home and someone could take the planning sheet home. Making board games is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much fun!

                   Sydnie Tidwell & Allison Schooley

Today's Meet!

Dear Parents,

      A couple weeks ago, the third grade started something called Today's Meet! We do today's meet in the morning when we have the chance. Mrs. Baker asks a question every day and we answer it. Mrs. Baker asks the question in a "room."  A room is where we answer questions and talk about a certain subject. Some examples are LBscience or FinalchapterSG. You have to type todaysmeet.com/ before you type the name of the room. We can't do words like hey girl or what's up. But we can ask our friends things like who is your favorite character or what is your favorite part. And of course, we have to answer the question Mrs. Baker asks ourselves. It is a fun way to learn and talk about science or reading or math....it is a good idea! 

                 By: Sydnie Tidwell & Allison Schooley ;)

Earth day

Dear Parents, 

    This week we planted our own trees. We all had seeds to plant the flowers. The flowers did not need to be watered because the rain. We planted the trees in front of the building. We had them in the front of the school. Each person had there own little section. I wonder what type of flowers we planted? I also wonder if we all planted the same type of flowers or did we plant the same type of flowers. We all were probably at least two inches apart. It was a fun thing to do espically because it was a beautiful day outside.

       By: Sydnie Tidwell, Allison Schooley, Mia Thomas ;)

Sisters Grimm Update!

Dear Parents,

           Since we haven't talked about reading/read aloud lately, Sydnie decided that we could give you an update on "The Sisters Grimm." The Sisters Grimm is a very long, long book. You can fill maybe 2 pages and a half of important parts for one chapter! The girls have found out that their granny is the real one, that mythical creatures are real, and meet a new character named Puck. Puck can control all of the pixies and calls himself "evil". There is a guy named Mayor Charming he basically is rich or some people call him Prince Charming. A giant steals Granny and Mr. Canas and ran off.....also there's this guy named jack from jack and the bean stalk. The girls found jack in prison he said mayor charming did it so the girls came up with a plan to help jack escape, because he said he would help the girls by saving mr.canis and granny. Then later on in the book the girls found out jack really wanted to kill the girls because he is a ever after and most ever afters don't want the grimms to die so they can be free. But that is what we are reading in Read Aloud!

                 By: Allison Schooley & Sydnie Tidwell

Time Tests!

Dear Parents,

            We have never blogged about time tests so this is our chance to do it. At the beginning of the year, we did time tests with addition, and subtraction. Now that we've learned, we do tests with multiplication. Our goal is to finish 100 problems (one time test) under 5 minutes by the end of the year.  We are now doing the time tests in 7 minutes to do the problems. We are getting closer to 5. After each time test we check it. There are 10 rows with 10 problems in each row. Mrs. Baker will call on someone to read the answers in their row one at a time. If they got the problem wrong, Mrs. Baker will correct it. If they got it right and you got the same answer, then you got the question right. After checking, we all record our scores on a paper that shows our score throughout the year. We always do time tests on Tuesday because Mrs. Baker calls it Time Test Tuesday. Now that, is an awesome name!

                                 By: Allison Schooley & Sydnie Tidwell ;)

Mill Creek Assembly!

Dear Parents,

          Last week 3-5th graders went to a assembly. A group called "Talking Horse Productions" came to our school to put on a play. There was around 13 scenes in the whole entire play. Each scene was about 2 minutes long and about a different subject. Each scene in the play had a picture that was themed around the scene that was on a cloth from a brown basket. The actors all wore a costume for each scene. My favorite scene was when they were looking for a treasure and couldn't find it...I am Allison by the way. I'm Sydnie and my favorite scene was when they were trying to make flowers stand up but it wouldn't so one of these girls used a box to make the flowers stand up by making holes in the box and she did it. Talking Horse Productions are amazing at putting on plays! Thank You Talking Horse Productions if you are reading this!

                              By: Allison Schooley & Sydnie Tidwell ;)

Chilli the amazing fish

Dear Parents,

        At the beginning of the year, Elliea had a fish and she brought it to be a class pet. (Elliea is the one in the far left top corner in the picture.) We had 3 fish before but 2 died, Chilli was a survivor. The other two were Cola and Goldmine. Since Chilli knows how the other fish died he is staying away from the filter....our class is trying to get more fish for Chilli because he is lonely. A decoration in Chilli's tank has a sign that say's " NO FISHING!". That is true because "you shouldn't kill your class pet....." Chilli is a amazing fish he keeps us company, also there's a girl named Mia and she cleans the tank and does other things to help chilli! Go Chilli!

                By: Allison Schooley & Sydnie Tidwell ;)

Opinion Writing Maps!

Dear Parents, 

      This week we have been doing opinion writing maps. We write down our opinion, 3 reasons to support it, and at least a couple of examples/facts to support our 3 reasons. It's about something you want to change about the world, a problem at school, and many other different topics. When you are done making 3 opinion writing maps, you can write it up in your writers notebook, and then you type it up on the computer. After you write your 3 reasons and your 3 facts/examples you write the same opinion/statement but in a stronger way. After you do 3 opinion writing maps you go to the back table (where mrs.baker is waiting for you) to discuss what opinion writing map you want to write in your writers notebook and type. That's what we have been doing in writing this week! 

                   By: Allison Schooley & Sydnie Tidwell ;)

Power Points!

Dear Parents,  

        This week we have been working on Weather PowerPoints. A weather PowerPoint is info about rain, storms and etc. We get all the information from a weather journal/book. In our weather journals we write down the temperature, humidity, precipitation, and wind speed everyday. Like yesterday it was 49 degrees. Each group got to do a section from a book called "Clouds, win and Storms". One person from the group got a laptop and logged in with their number and password. We're not quite finished yet. It was fun/cool and awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........wicked.........!!!!!!  

  Credit:

 Bloggers: Allison Schooley, Mia Thomas,Sydnie Tidwell, and Jennie Nixon 

Pictures:Allison Schooley and Sydnie Tidwell 

Jumping with Rope!

Dear Parents,

Today in P.E We were jumpin like crazy!!! It was the second day of our jumprope unit. We learned about partner jumping and long rope jumping. We watched a video that reviewed what we learned...and we watched a video about partner jumping and long rope jumping. Our favorite was the long rope jumping. Some people "free jumped" while others watched the review video. The video was about how to jump with two or more people. The video taught people how to cross jump rope and other skills. If you have a jump rope at home you should pack it up to go on trips. I don't really have a jump rope because my dad ran over it with his car. You should really.... STAY ACTIVE!!!!!!!!!

Credits

Place- School Gym

Pictures- Sydnie Tidwell & Allison Schooley 

Back Round- Mia Thomas

Bloggers- Sydnie Tidwell, Allison Schooley, Mia Thomas 

School Gym Owned By- Coach Gamble 

Our new Rug!

Dear Parents

         Yes, we are blogging about a rug......hello folks we can't wait to blog about our new rug-right Allison? ....................Allison??........... um hello? Sorry people it looks like she ran away. Any way our rug is not just any rug it looks like a book shelf. (That's a good thing) Hello? Oh, are we blogging Mia? Hi everyone! But our rug is so awesome and cool and amazing and fun and soft and fluffy and........it's fun..is what I'm trying to say. Thanks for listening to our rug special. 

Credits-

Camera Woman-Sydnie Tidwell

Bloggers-Allison Schooley and Mia Thomas

Picture Model-Kate Hoyt

;)

Crazy Hair Day!

Dear Parents,

      Today was cray cray day this is true because it rhymes with crazy hair day! (Not really) But seriously, folks. Some people had some jazzy hair. And other people had some funny hats (like me.) Sorry, that was Mia bragging. *sigh*. some People. I can't wait for another crazy hair day because this one was awesome!! I loved finding out what people would wear! March 21 was a cray cray day at Mill Creek!

                             By: Mia Thoma$ & Alli$on $chooley ;)

Science + Fun = Awesome

Dear Parents, 

       Today we watched Mrs. B make a thermometer. The things that Mrs. Baker used was rubbing alcohol,  modeling clay, a water bottle, red dye, water, a bowl with hot water in it and a straw. You can make it because you got a letter with the instructions on it so you can make it at home. We couldn't make them at school because it was at the end of the day. We also couldn't make them because there was hot water. You should try it at home but when you pour the hot water in the bowl it only works 1 time I hope you make it at home.🌺

             By: Sydnie Tidwell & Mia Thomas ;)

Fraction Strips

Dear Parents,

          Today in math, we started learning about fractions with the help of fraction strips! Each person got one bag of fraction strips. (1 whole, 2 halves, 3 thirds, 4 fourths, 5 fifths, 6 sixths, 8 eighths, 10 tenths, & 12 twelves.) Some people used them for math but others didn't. With the fraction strips, we found out that one half was equal to two fourths, or that two halves was equal to three thirds. (In the picture below.) To make a whole you have to have the same number as the numerator and the denominator for example ( 8/8 =1 whole.) The numerator is the top number and represents the part that is shaded or taken away, while the denominator is the bottom number, which represents the whole. Fraction strips were sort of hard..... But you get used to it!

                  By: Allison Schooley & Sydnie Tidwell ;)

Music Class

Dear Parents,

          Today in music class, we learned about Irish dancing! (Riverdances)! We watched a video about Irish dancing. Then she gave us a chance to try it ourselves. There are Irish dance lessons on YouTube if you would like to learn. Also to be a Irish dancer you have to wear a special type of tap shoes, but you don't have to be Irish. Because there is some Irish dancers that are from America that do it. You could be a girl or a boy you can still be a Irish dancer. When we got the chance to riverdance, it was pretty hard! (They make it look EASY!) I think it probably takes a year to learn Irish dancing (because they are super fast!) If you are up for a challenge, try Irish step dancing!

                By: Allison Schooley & Sydnie Tidwell ;)

Weather Vane!

Dear Parents,

            Today we made a science project called a weather vane. It shows where the wind is coming from. ( north, east, south, & west.) When the wind blows into one of the cups, the weather vane will spin around and the arrow will face where the wind is coming from. We used three plastic cups, a pencil without an eraser, a pin, a straw, a bead, a paper arrow, and a paper plate. You can just hold it anywhere outside, and when it's windy, it will show you what direction the wind is coming from! Some people went to the back of the room to make there's and others did it at their table.

                  By: Sydnie Tidwell & Allison Schooley ;)

Library rocks

Dear parents,

                         Today in our specials class we went to library!! It was AWESOME! Two weeks ago we started are non-fiction power point. Since then we have made a lot of progress. First we had to get a bunch of pictures so we could put them on our slides! Second we had to find info on Google Chrome. Then we wrote the info on a paper. Today's lesson we started our power point and typed the info on our new slides. There were so many topics to pick from. Here are some of the topics our class picked.... Dolphins, blue whales, China, turtles, bobcats and California! We hope we finish them in time to show our parents!

       

                        By: Mia Thomas and Bennett Chudy