Easter Bunnies!

Cute bunnies were everywhere this year for Easter. I have made these cupcakes for years with my class and this year was no exception.  I bake the cupcakes at home then give every child a plain cupcake (my gluten free student received a rice crispy cake it worked great!).  They had a spoon full of white frosting, three jelly beans, a bunny shaped "Peep", and some green coconut.  To dye the coconut you just put some coconut into a ziplock bag and add a couple of drops of green food coloring, then shake.  They turned out adorable and the kids love putting them together themselves, but they love eating them even more!

We also made some bunny glyphs.  I know I have really been into glyphs this year.  We have made one each month and the kids have loved them.  This glyph I did not make a pattern for every piece.  The glyph calls for different heads based on their answers, so I traced a lid for the round, hand drew a heart for the heart shaped heads, and drew an oval for the kids who had oval heads.  That kept the class from making tiny bunnies.  They had different shaped bodies, round or long and skinny.  The baskets were in different hands with different amounts of eggs based on answers.  A carrot or tulip was in the rabbits hand. Bow on head for girl, under chin for boy.   

I made mine while I was having them make their own and demonstrated how to draw the arms, face, ears, etc.  They really like to do it all on their own.  Didn't they turn out awesome?  I really liked the oval headed bunny with the tiny body mixed in with the others.  It reminded me of a cartoon character.   

I will have to pull out my glyph and put the questions on here to share with everyone.  Look for an update soon!

Dr. Seuss

Green Eggs and Ham snacks

The Ham is chocolate covered strawberries the eggs are white chocolate dyed green with a green M&M

 We celebrated Friday with treats made by Miss Landrith.  Aren't they adorable!  They tasted great too! 

We made glyphs after reading Dr. Seuss's 

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.  They turned out so cute!  

The book we read for our glyph!

Bought the glyph from TPT Glyph Girls! Turned out very
Cute... don't you think?

We read The Lorax and talked about what lesson the Once-ler was trying to teach the reader.Thekids then wrote paragraphs to explain the lesson and then wrote what they could do to help the environment, what Kansas could do and what the world could do to help. Then we drew the Lorax together.  Usually when I teach them how to draw I walk them through how to draw it step by step.  For instance, the top of his head should be in the middle of the page and it is a half circle, then I told them that the eyes were ovals that were tilted...  They love it when I do this and the results were awesome!  They have to color the whole page with very little white.  We used our classroom set of new markers and the colors really pop!  What do you think?

Taught my students how to draw the Lorax!

They did a great job!

I Speak for the Trees!

Unless someone like you cares....

Dr. Seuss the Lorax

With Truffala trees!

My bulletin board truffala trees!

My Lorax bulletin board!

Kourtney's bulletin board...very cute!

Thing 1

Thing 2

Cat in the Hat

Martin Luther King Jr.

Last week we started our unit on Martin Luther King Jr..  We read several non fiction books and had some really great discussions.  I decided that instead of a pattern or just another color sheet that I would show my class, step-by-step, how to draw a portrait.  So I demonstrated on my elmo as they followed my directions at their desks.  The outcome was awesome!  Just look at all the cute MLK's in our hallway.  Then I had write three facts about Dr. King and write them on their graphic organizers.  They didn't have a problem coming up with three, they wanted to write more facts!  I think I'll have to make a new organizer with room for more facts for our next study.

January

 

Check out our Snowman Glyphs!  I wrote it on chart paper.  They didn't have any patterns, but they did awesome!  Maybe it's because we have made a glyph every month....hmmm...probably!  I love the personality of each one.  Third graders Rock!!!

This is the our classroom door that my student teacher made this year.

My December bulletin board, we used "The Grinch" to teach both reading and English skills.  We ended the unit with a writing assignment "I Would make the Grinch grin by..." Didn't they turn out cute?

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We read "Legend of the Poinsettia" by Tomie DePaola and finished our unit by painting these beautiful poinsettias.  I cut a petal shapes from sponges bought at the Dollar Tree.  Attached a clothes pin to the top and had my students stamp the petals in either red or pink and even mix the two.  The white spots left showing made them even better.  We finished them by tracing the flower with glue (3 dots in the center too!) and then added the gold glitter.  I think the glitter really makes them pop!  Didn't they do a great job on these?

These cute little elves are actually glyphs.  I made a pattern for the head, body, shoes, mittens, hat and the collar.  My class actually traced them and cut out the color according to their likes and dislikes.  I'm really into glyphs this year!

Columbus Day Activities

Did you ever have an idea for a lesson at the last minute that turned into a treasure?  Well, that's what happened to us the week of Columbus Day.  We read some nonfiction books about Christopher Columbus, made the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria...probably just like every other third grade class.  Nothing too noteworthy, pretty standard until....  we decided that my class needed to do a little creative writing assignment.  We read the book You Wouldn't Want to Sail with Christopher Columbus!  We discussed as we read what it would be like to discover a new land.  Then I gave them the topic of writing a letter to a loved one telling them that they had been shipwrecked.  What would we need to tell our mothers, dads, grandmas?  We talked about what were the things that we really need to survive, using the T.V. show "Survivor" as an example.  They came up with food, clothing, shelter, water, and fire!!  Awesome!  Then we talked about how we could signal our rescuers.  The results were awesome!!