Water Experiment Day!

Whew! So much to discover in just one day. The Fantastic Frogs visited all the third grade rooms today and experienced a different experiment with water in each room. In our room, we

made it rain! We learned about the three main types of clouds: cumulus, stratus, and cirrus and how each one looks. The cirrus clouds are too feathery and wispy to create precipitation. The cumulus cloud can turn into a cumulonimbus cloud which can make severe thunderstorms. For our experiment we created a cumulus cloud and kept adding water drops until the cloud got so heavy that it rained!

BOX TOPS

Dear Fantastic Frogs,

Quinn's mom is going to help us collect Box Tops this year! She needs you to precut and trim the box tops before sending them in.

Contest- The classroom with the most Box Tops wins a pizza party! AND Quinn's mom is going to add cupcakes as a special treat. So start looking for those box tops. Don't know where to find them?

Check out this website: http://www.boxtops4education.com/ to find out which products to look for.

Huckleberry Park

You can see from the pictures that we were all a little excited about the celebration for Huckleberry Park. Our part in the ceremony included making some hopes and wishes for the garden area. Here are a few:

• I hope and wish that all the butterflies and ladybugs will come and enjoy it forever.
• I hope the garden grows big and strong and frogs go all around the garden.
• I hope the garden will be a nice place to live for animals and a nice place for plants to grow.
• I wish that all the kids care about the garden.
• I wish all living things will be happy.

The Snowy Day

The Fantastic Frogs were very excited to participate in a world wide program involving reading! Every time The Snowy Day was read a book was donated to a child. You may continue to donate by going to Jumpstart. We still don't know the total of people who read worldwide this year, but we are hoping to beat the 2.5 million number from last year. To celebrate we created drawings using chalk on white paper.

Where We Are in Time and Place

Our first planner was about how communities are established and change over time. The focus being on our school community and city community. We explored the physical, culture, climate and government of different communities. Native Americans became a focus to compare and contrast the past and the present. One part of the Native American culture of the Southwest Region that was particular interesting was the Storyteller. The Storyteller was created by Helen Cordero who lived in New Mexico. The idea was to have an object to represent the great storytellers in her tribe, namely her grandfather. The stories are a way for the elders of the tribe to teach and pass lessons on to the young children. We have created our storytellers and are in the process of revising and editing our stories. Thank you to Sophia's dad for sharing with us a Storyteller from the same tribe as Helen Cordero! That was an exciting surprise!!

Money!

In math this week, we explored money. We learned about the different coins, their value and reviewed how to use dollar and cents notation. With a partner, we discovered different ways to make the same amount. Next, we used the symbols for greater than, less than to compare two amounts. Finally, we went shopping to discover how to give change.

Class Party

The class party was a huge success! The students had so much fun playing on the field and the parents had a great time visiting.

Art A La Carte

I would have to say that the first Art ALa Carte was a huge success. Thank you to Patrick's and Jackson's mom!! Students explored still art and then created their own using a special paint made with Kool-aid. All I can say is it smelled good in our room!!! and thank you to our class photographer for recording it all in these great pictures.