Happy Thanksgiving!

Since Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, we go all out on projects and decorating. Our leaf shape poems are hanging on the wall, our pilgrim village we built (from our S.S. unit) is on the table, and finally, the pinecone turkey and Indian headress is out front with the student. This Thanksgiving season has been busy, but fun.

Aren't their Indian headresses cute? We couldn't let Thanksgiving get by without them.

We're back!

 

This is my little class of third graders who have found their way into my heart! We're all wearing pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month back in October.

Turning Our Work In

This is the all important paper trays where we turn in our work. One of our first tasks to complete in my third grade is to organize our desk, head up our paper correctly and turn our work in promptly.

Computer Corner

We keep these computers hopping throughout the day. My students take their A.R. reading tests as well as do their research for our reports here.

The Reading Hut

These are my book baskets holding my prized A.R. chapter books that are labeled by reading levels. I've been collecting for a while now, and always am looking for more to keep those kiddos reading...... We've got some of Junie B. Jones, Magic Treehouse Mysteries, A to Z Mysteries, Boxcar Children Mysteries, Bailey School Kids Mysteries, Cam Jansen Mysteries, Horrible Harry books, Captain Underpants, and Matt Christopher books. After reading a book, they review it, go to our classroom computer and take a comprehensive test on it. Then they record it in their folder. You wouldn't believe how it builds comprehension! I don't set a certain number of books for them to read because they read them nonstop anyway.

Front view of our room.