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

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