Great Week!

This group is resding about horses.

We had a great, normal week finally!!!  We started our non-fiction book clubs and are learning lots of things from them already!  Here's a peek at the clubs working hard reading and discussing their topics:

This group's topic is deer.

This group is reading about dolphins.

These students are learning about seals.

Bees is the topic this group is reading and learning more about.

I can't wait to hear all the learning that these groups will be sharing about their different topics.  If you ever are in the classroom, be sure to stop just outside the door to read our COOL, GROSS, and WOW board.  It's filling up with all kinds of things we have been finding and learning in our books.  Our class topic is severe weather so we will be learning lots about this topci too!!

Mileage Club has started up once again and are we ever excited about it!!!  Some of us have already earned some big tokens.  Analiese earned a 20 toe for running 20 miles and Nathan earned a Runner Dude for running 16 miles.  I have a feeling that someone is going to earn a marathan shirt, don't you???  Mrs. Kelley is still need of volunteers if you are able to help out.  Please contact her directly if you are able to do that.  If you would like to help her and would like to make a day of it I would love your help the rest of the day:) 

We celebrated a couple of Birthdays this month.  Regan and Michael both turned 7 this month.  Neither one of them believed that they were older than me.  I guess I can always try again next month.

Special Person's Day is this Friday.  Please be sure to turn in your form if you haven't done so.  I am all set on cookies.  Thanks so much for your willingness to donate them!!  Remember to make sure that your special person doesn't arrive before 1:30.  The door will be closed and they will be asked to wait in the hallway prior to this time.  It makes it hard for us to do things inside the classroom otherwise.  Thanks for your understanding.

Surprise Mail:  Remember to start asking friends and family to write a note to your child to open on surprise day.  Our Surprise Day celebration is May 25th.  You can have them mailed to the school with attention to Mrs. Gilde and your child's name on it as well.  The address is:  107 E. Maple Street, McBain, MI 49657.  This is a really fun day and students are really surprised when they open their mail.  Last year I even had a little girl cry because she felt so lucky to get mail from her grandpa.

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a great spring break!!!  I did!  We took our girls to Disney for the first time!!  It was 5 days full of princesses and warm weather! 

I'm glad to be back though to some routine!  We didn't have much of that last month with reading month and report card assessments. 

Here are some pictures from last month.  I don't have a camera for my classroom so I have to rely on my memory to bring my camera from home.  Well, you can about imagine how often I forget it!!!  I did a lot.  Just this past week I had an aha moment!!  I can use the camera on my phone!  So, there aren't as many pictures as I had planned on taking but here are a few:

Kahli reading in the aquarium

Michael

Regan

One more Week left!

This is the last week before spring break!!  Is it ever crazy!!  Today is the 3rd grade book store.  Thursday is the book fair be sure to send in the money with the books that your child is suppose to purchase with their name on it.  Friday is also beach day.  Students are to wear their beach hats, sunglasses and flip flops. 

Just a reminder that after spring break we start back on a delayed start.  Have a wonderful spring break!!

Lots to BLOG about!!

WOW!! March is definitely a CRAZY month for sure.  Not only is the weather outside crazy but reading month is keeping us all busy inside. 

We had fun reading at the beach last Friday.  I will post all reading month pictures at one time.  That will be easiest I think.  We wore our beach hats as well.  This Friday we are going to be wearing our sunglasses so don't foget to send those with your child!!

Here are some other tidbits of information:
If you haven't turned in your Fun-To-Be-Fit form in....Please get that in ASAP!!  That is a super fun day that you don't want to miss out on!!

If you weren't at the Cup Stacking Tournament on Saturday you missed out!!  It was a super fun time.  Mrs. Kelley says some new school records were set.  Check out her BLOG by going to the teacher pages and finding her name!!  Analiese in our class brought home a few medals.  Way to go Analiese!! 

Book Fair:  Oh yes, it's here!!  We will be shopping one week and purchasing the next week.  It's in the news letter but here are the dates:  shopping Friday, March 23 and purchasing March 29!!

3rd graders are also having a book store of their own to raise money for a field trip.  This will be in the next newsletter. 

See I told you March was CRAZY!!!

Better Late than Never

Sorry I didn't get to this last week, but I didn't get the chance and I really wanted you to see the fun that we had in class with 100s day and Valentine's Day!  We made some fun hats, did a number hunt, graphed candy hearts, and delivered our mail to some VERY creative looking mailboxes!!  Way to go.  The pictures say it all!!

Nolah's Flippy, Floppy, Floopy Fun Hat

Parker's Valentine Box

Alexis's Valentine Box

Jason's Valentine Box

We also made portraits of ourselves looking like we are 100 years old!!  This is how they turned out:

Your Hearts Pumpin' When You're Jumpin'

We had a BLAST at Jump Rope for Heart on Friday!  There was much improvement in their jumping in the hour and 15 minutes that the class jumped.  We were able to raise over $10,000 for the American Heart Association with your help.  Thank you so much for supporting this cause!! Here are some action shots from the day!

Isaac

Paige

Logan A.

Jumping with the long rope is fun and more than one person can jump at a time!

Analiese and Nolah try doing the butterfly where you link up jump ropes and jump together!

Kahli is working really hard at trying to master THE CROSS OVER!



Nolah

Analiese was the lucky winner of a parachute ball.  Her name was drawn from the returned collection forms.  Way to go Analiese!!

                          My AMAZING class of jumpers (all waiting patiently for a popsicle!)!!



JumP Rope for Heart Friday!!

I am super excited for Jump Rope for Heart on Friday!  If you have a chance to join us it's from 9:00-10:15!!  It is a lot of fun!!  Please be sure to send your child in the appropriate clothing for this event:  shorts, jogging pants, t-shirts!!  I can't wait to post pictures!

I am sending empty kleenex boxes home today for you to decorate with your child for their valentine boxes to put their cards in.  The sky is the limit on these!!  Be creative!! You may use wrapping paper, paper, paint, glitter, tin foil, stickers, googley eyes, etc.  You may make it into whatever you would like.  It could be a monster, a mailbox, a cat, even you!  The only requirement is that it has to have your child's name on it and it has to be back on or before Valentine's Day!  Have fun with it!!