Readers Arrrrrgh Leaders!

Ahoy, me hearties! This week we celebrated National Talk Like a Pirate Day. We all dressed like pirates and invited a community leader to our classroom to read to us. Officer Waddell, Will's dad, visited me lads and lassies to tell them a little about what he does each day as well as to read Tough Boris. This book is great to have a discussion about character traits and also how the way we can perceive people is not always correct. Even the meanest, toughest, most massive pirates will cry. After the book was read, of course the class wanted to ask questions about topics such as tasers and robbers. So Hunter ended up in handcuffs for a short time, which they loved seeing :) Then it was time for our visitor to leave. We're so glad Officer Waddell could come make this day more special for us! To top it all off, we had delicious pirate cupcakes provided by Emily and her family. They were not only cute, but also our first taste of cupcakes for the school year! Yummy!
I'm hoping to start letting the students post updates to this blog to give them ownership in sharing what we do in our classroom community. So be looking for that soon because I'm sure it will be great. Savvy? :)

 

The beginning of A LOT of research....

Today, we visited the library for our first research session. I let each student choose the Tourism Region (not one of our 6 geographical regions) they wanted to research and make the video about at the end of this project. So we have 5 groups: The Grand Strand, Historic Charleston, Upcountry, Lowcountry, and Capital City. They were so excited reading about what they could find in that region's major city. They found all kinds of museums, ballparks, waterparks, outlet malls, and one group even found a hotel room and they were not impressed by the price of $108 per night. We are returning to the library next week for another research session, and I'm sure they'll find even more interesting and useful information!

 

Regions of SC

Third grade Social Studies is all about our wonderful state of South Carolina. I love watching my students get excited each year learning the history of our amazing state. We are especially excited this year because we are going to do a project with many components to it. One is making a video/commercial to persuade people to come visit a specific place/region in SC! We will be sending our videos to the state tourism board so we'll just see what happens and hope for the best. This week they learned that SC has 6 geographical regions. We learned this song to help them better remember the names and their location. I hear some of them humming it throughout the day :) So here they are, eager to perform on camera. Enjoy...and you may see them on television one day! :)