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Phographs taken by: Treven Viestenz, Third Grader

Golf ball Challenge

Today we continued a golf ball challenge.  It was fun!  I hope you like the pictures.

By: Veronica Sikorski, Third Grader

Food

Today we talked about how food is good for you and how it is good for the world.

By: Dominic McQuinn, Third Grader

Literature Groups

Today we are doing literature groups.  We are going to read together all week.

By: Katrina Loos, Third Grader

Monarch Project

Today we did the monarch brochures.  I took pictures of some people that were doing it.  We are working very hard on it.

By: Dominic Davis, Third Grader

We'll Miss Ms. Valle

We are so sad to see Ms. Valle go.  She will be heading to the Middle School to teach Spanish.We have been so fortunate to have such a fantastic student teacher these past few months.  We will miss her and Niblet too.  Good luck Ms. Valle!

Fall Poems

We used the laptops today.

By: Jonathan K, Third Grader

Fish and Frog Observation

Today we observed about frogs and fish.  It was cool seeing them.  We drew pictures of fish and frogs and wrote about them too.

By: Max Dahlenberg, Third Grader

Pumpkin Math

We had so much fun in pumpkin math today!  Everyone was so excited to do pumpkin math.  In some groups they had 500 seeds in the pumpkin and in one group they had about 200.  In my group we had about 500.  Tomorrow we will roast the seeds and eat them.

By: Rimon Kifle, Third Grader

Building Marshmallow Towers With Toothpicks

We made marshmallow towers with toothpicks.  Colin and Ruby won.  It was 14 inches.  Most of our towers fell over.  Everyone enjoyed it.

By: Kyle Coudron, Third Grader

Skits

Our class did skits.  They were called: #1 Pinocchio, #2 Tiger, Brahman, and Jackal, #3 The Homework Lesson, #4 Who-Who's Afraid of the Dark? Everyone did a good job and maybe we'll do more.

By: Rory Hjelmeland, Third Grader

T-Shirt Temperature

Today we talked about the temperature of colors and how Monarchs stay warm for migration.  Most of us chose black out of black, yellow and white t-shirts.  We thought black would be the warmest.

By: Tristyn Christopherson, Third Grader

Our Monarch Butterfly

At last, we have a butterfly.  He emerged while the students were in P.E. It was so exciting. We have decided that it would be cruel to release him at this time, so we'll just have to see how he does as a class pet.  We'll enjoy him while we can.

Changes in the Chrysalis

I stopped into my room this morning because Fozzy's been in Chrysalis for 14 days now.  Low and behold, there have been some big changes.  Within 24 hours he/she should emerge.  I've observed some definite movement occurring. Look at the picture carefully.  You can see the wing's pattern inside. Perhaps by tomorrow we'll have a butterfly in our classroom.

Fozzy the Lone Monarch

We have been nervously waiting to see if Fozzy, our last Monarch, will emerge from it's chrysalis.  We made predictions about Fozzy's emergence date, graphed our results as a class, and have been watching for changes daily.  I promised the students I would post any changes during MEA break.  This is what Fozzy looked like today.  We're keeping our fingers crossed.  Good luck Fozzy...we're rooting for you!

Halloween Monsters

Today we had fun. We made Halloween Monsters, made of paper scraps. We got to name them.

By: Ruby Hetzel, Third Grader