Stations {Friday Fun!}

Every Friday afternoon third graders get to participate in stations.   Stations are simply a different (usually more fun!) way of learning in small groups.  Students rotate through 4 - 5 activities throughout the afternoon - typically the stations will include math catch up/games, reading, a craft, visiting websites to practice spelling words, and more!  Stations are a great way to wrap up our week.

Check out these pictures from today's stations . . .

(since it's the beginning of the year, one of the 3H stations was to practice using/putting away our indoor recess games properly)

Mr. Wegter

Many of you met Mr. Wegter during Open House.  Mr. Wegter will be our student teacher in third grade for the next eight weeks.  He has written an introduction letter for each of the classes.

Next week..we will have a picture and an interview done by one of the kids about Mr. Wegter.

Welcome!

You Matter!

Both Mrs. Hartsock and Mrs. Bender took the technology class offered by Mid-Prairie this summer, and we were very impressed with Angela Myers and her theme that kids matter.  We will be spending time this year working on "creating the kids' genius" - focusing on all the positive things they know how to do.  We are tying this into our Health curriculum this year.

Using the computers

The kids couldn't wait to use their new flash drives!  We took a class period to set up their flash drives, labeling them and adding two folders.  One of the folders will be used for writing projects.  The other folder we will use for keeping notes and information about our science units.

Learning Chess

Even though it was a busy week trying to get our classroom running, we did take time to learn the first piece of chess - the pawn.  The kids had an opportunity to try their hand at the pawn game.  Lots of kids said they already knew how to play the game so they can't wait to get started!