Pollination...and Cheetos?!?!?!

Hunter's and Cassidy's Thoughts:
      Today we did a fun activeidy in Science. First, we ate Cheetos to get the orange color on our fingers. Then we got these finger things to put our fingers in the holes to be the bee's legs. Next we went around the room and touched other people's flower with our fingers. The bee is our finger cause we ate Cheetos to get the orange color on our fingers. Next we talked about pollen and pollination then when we came from recess we watched a short video about plants. After that we talked about how pollen sticks to insects and animals. The activeidy was a blast and we had a lot of fun!

Walk to School Week

Chloe's and Joseph's Thoughts:
     Walk to School Week is a whole week filled with fun. We did this to be healthy and fit. On Walk to School Week, we dressed in green on Monday. On Tuesday we dressed like Clark Kent, we had a class full of Clarks! On Wedsday we walked around the school and students wore their favorite superhero outfit. On Thursday we wore head-bands and wrist-bands in honner of Wonder Woman. We had a great time on each and every of these days. Our class has some true superheros!

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! :)

Mrs. Wise has wrangled some new 3rd graders!

We are ending our 2nd week of the 2013-2014 school year and I have decided I have the BEST class at OES :) They have all been so sweet and patient as we've gone through routine after routine. But we've had some fun times too. Today was College Colors Day so I took our first class photo of the year. I can't wait to see what the year holds! 

And Go Cocks!!!!! :) 

Summer is coming to an end... :(

I CANNOT believe that another school year is about to begin. I have had such a good time at home with Linley these past couple of months. We've kept busy! Carowinds, beach, shopping, playdates, ears pierced (Linley that is), waterpark, picnics, zoo, dressing up, cookouts, swimming, and just spending quality time with our family and friends. As sad as it is, I am looking forward to meeting my new classroom of sweet faces and seeing what the year has in store. I pray it is full of many blessings and beautiful experiences for all of us!