Our awesome school day

In Math we learned more about Geometry. We learned about polygons, quadrilaterals, triangles, hexagons, pentagons, octagons, and decagons in math. Our teacher taught us tricks to remember the names of the polygons.  For example, for the 8 sided octagon it is octopus because an octopus has 8 arms.  For another example, the four sided quadrilateral because in the beginning it says quad and a quad has 4 wheels and a quadrilateral has 4 sides.

By: Ethan A. and Hannah

Terrific Tuesday

Today in science we had a jigsaw.  That is where you get assigned into a group and teach the class what you read about. The packet was about space. You can draw, sing, write a poem, or act out what you read. A bunch of people sang a song.  Then you walk up in front of the class. While you are up in front of the class you put on your performance.  


BY:The Awesome Reese and Debbie

Book Awards!

After a month of voting in each of the third grade classes, the books have been chosen!

And the nominees are...

Best Fiction:
The Puppy Place: Shadow
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The World According to Humphrey
Superfudge
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Best Illustrations:
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Lorax
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Polar Express
Zathura

Greatest Biography:
Who Was Happy Houdini?
Who Was Amelia Earhart?
Who Was Elvis Presley?
Helen Keller
Who Were the Beatles?

Magnificent Mystery Series:
A to Z Mystery Series
Percy Jackson Series
Nate the Great Series
39 Clues Series
Boxcar Children Series

Most Interesting Nonfiction:
Guinness Book of World Record
I Wonder Why...Books
Chasing Tornadoes
Almanac for Kids
I Have a Dream

Each student in third grade placed their vote for one book in each of these categories.  The results are being tallied and the winners will be announced at our Book Awards on Friday!  Check back to find out the winners!

Guest Readers

Today we had 4 guest readers.  They were Mrs.Jacobs, Mrs.Canova, Mrs.Neuschatz, and Mrs. Dillon.  We read Duck for President,The Tiger who Wore White Gloves, The Lion and the Lily, The Show and Tell Disaster, and The Paper Bag Princess.  The reason we had this was because  it is love of reading week.

By: Kaela and Vincent

Presentations

There were lots of kids in costumes.  That was because we were doing our biography book report presentations.  It was really cool.  We  dressed up as Sacajawea and Colin  Powell.  Alex was Marco Polo and Lola was Jackie Robinson.  We had 2 George Washington's and 2 Rosa Parks.
                                                                                                                                         
                                               By: Cullen and Olivia            

Colin Powell

Annie Oakley

Amelia Earhart

Rosa Parks

Orville Wright (the Wright Brothers)

Marco Polo

George Washington

Rosa Parks

Harriet Tubman

Anne Frank

Albert Einstein

Pablo Picasso

Sacajawea

Tangram Wednesday

Today we practiced tangrams for math night tomorrow. Tangrams are foam blocks that you can make shapes. For example, you can make a rectangle by moving two big triangles.  To start the rectangle you have to start as a square. Another example is a parallelogram. It is so much fun to do tangrams.   



by: Lauren And Brodie

Matilda Thursday

Today Mrs. Sullivan read part of a book called Matilda.  It's about a little 5 year old girl named Matilda and she has REALLY mean parents.  It's sad thinking how mean her parents are.  Do you have mean parents?  I hope you don't.  Matilda is so funny!

By: Thomas and Sydney

The purrrrrrfect math day

In awesome math  yesterday on that perrrfect day, we reviewed the tricks about fractions.  Like working on the number line.  We also worked with mixed numbers. We also did benchmark fractions.  It was fun! We watched our awesome math video. After that we did our awesome math page.  When we were done we did awesome centers.   Math centers! 




By: Ethan G. and Alex  


                                                             

Informational Writing

Welcome to Mrs.Sullivan's class blog. We have done a lot of fun things this year. Here are some of them!!


PENNIES FOR PAJAMAS
Last week we had pennies for pajamas and it was the best day ever!  Our class had awesome patterns on their pj's!  You should have seen our pj's.  They were SO cool!  Pennies for pj's is a fundraiser that raises money for people who don't have pj's.  Each person who wears pj's brings in a dollar and helps pay for pj's.  Because of this fundraiser many people will have war pj's for the winter!


By: Cullen, Sydney & Kaela


MINI TOWN
Have you ever ridden a scooter on a highway? Or seen a child pay for gas at a gas station? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, you're in Mini town! There is a super highway that you can go as fast as you would like.  It is fun and good exercise. You get coins so you can get gas.  Also,coins so you can go on the super highway. There are mini games and you can play them. You can also control a stoplight. There is a gas station. You can connect scooters to make buses. It rocks!!!!! Something surprising is... IT'S ALL IN GYM CLASS!

By: Carissa, Taylor, and Lola


AWESOME BASKETBALL ASSEMBLY
In January Mr.Steve came to Alpine school. He is a professional basketball player. Mr.Steve came all the way from Ohio to Sparta by car. He has great skills. His basketball program is called Totally Courageous Basketball. He got students in our school to spin a basketball on a pencil. Mr.Steve spun the ball on little toy figures. For example, he used a barbie doll,Yoda, and even a Spiderman action figure. In the grand finale he put pencils on his knees, feet, and arms and spun 1 ball on each pencil. The point of this assembly was to try your hardest and believe in yourself.  Also to never give up.  

by:Lauren and Ethan and Aura


HURRICANE SULLI

“Dun dun dun dun” It’s time to track Hurricane Sulli for science! We tracked Hurricane Sulli in the weather unit.  Mrs.Sullivan told the class to track the Hurricane on our tracking chart stapled in our science notebook.  The class even had  to find out where the Hurricane had moved to.  The class loved it. 

By: Keith , Thomas, and Alex

PEN PALS
Have you ever had a pen pal? If not listen closely. Pen pals is one of the ways to communicate to other people In the world. Us 3rd graders have pen pals with our teacher's friend's class. They are third graders too. We have different classes and different schools. If you have a pen pal you can’t see their faces. You can ask your pen pal questions. You never know when your pen pal can turn into your best friend and you can visit them if they are in your community. Pen pals are fun to have. They always stick with you and turn into your buddy.

By: McCall, Reese, Hannah

HALLOWEEN PARTY

At school we have Halloween parties. We painted pumpkins pretty and made marvelous mummies.  On bingo we scored ghost, but ghost sounds more like ghoul.  A lot of people screamed BOO! Spooky music filled the room.  We dressed up our costumes and SNAP!  went Mrs. Sullivan’s camera as she took our picture.  When the party ended we got goodies. We had a blast.

By:Zsofia, Olivia, and Emily

BEAR RUN
 

We ran in the Bear Run where we ran one lap around the school to raise money. You raised money for a teacher named Mrs. Wink that passed away because of cancer. The 3^rd grade and 4^th grade and 5^th grade participated. The first 7 people to cross the finish line received a medal. We practiced in gym and we had fun.

By: Debbie, Garrett,J.D.

We do a lot of fun things throughout the year. The class is fun, creative, and always doing fun things. We work together.

Valentine's Party

On Valentine's day we had a mini party. We had cookies and drinks for snack. We had a LOAD
full of cards in our bags. Mrs. Sullivan even gave us cards. It was awesome!!!! We lined our bags up and put the cards in. It took about 20 minutes. We made bags yesterday it was so fun.  We got to design the bag with markers and hearts. Then we went onto a totally different subject.  That's a whole different story.


By: the awesome Emily and Cullen

Spectacular Science

In science we did an experiment.  In it we saw the temperatures of sand, dirt, and water in the sun and in the shade.  The ones in the shade were colder.  Also, we compared our temperatures with a machine called Infrared Thermometer.  Mrs.Sullivan was the coldest person, Brodie was the hottest.  Some people in the class had the same temperatures.  For example, Zsofia and Aura had the same temperatures. 

by: McCall and Garrett

Today's Science

Today we learned more about shadows in science.  In these pictures of our class we are tracing our shadows at 9:0 am. Later in the day we went out again to see our shadows but they were hard to see because the sun wasn't out.

By: Aura and J.D.

Science

Today we learned about science.  The thing we learned in science was shadows.  Shadows are made by an object that blocks light and it creates a shadow.  Sun  projects light on an object that makes a shadow.

by: Tucker  and Lola

Dias de la semana

In Spanish today, Lunes (Monday), Febrero (February) 6th, we practiced dias de la semana (days of the week) Domingo through Sabado (Sunday through Saturday).  We don't have a real Spanish teacher, but Mrs. Sullivan is just as good.  We call her Senora Sullivan.  She even puts on a sombrero!  So it's a proven fact that Mrs. Sullivan is better than a real Spanish teacher.

By Keith and Carissa

The Day of Fun

Today in science we learned about the sun and we got to dance because Mrs.Sullivan put on the music while we worked. We learned that the sun is a star.  Also we got three stars and we had to write one fact on each star.  We also learned that the sun may burn out any day in at least 1,000,000,000 years or more.  We probably won't be alive by then. 

             By: Zsofia and Ethan A.

More Cereal Box Commercials

Keith's commerical for Melody of Notes.  Book- The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements

Garrett's commerical for Joke-O's. Book- The Practical Joke War by Alane Ferguson

The Awesome Wednesday

           Today Dr.Harte came to our school.  He talked to us about teeth.  For example, flossing, how to brush your teeth the right way, and much more!  He gave us goodie bags that had cool stuff in them. During the talking he picked people to help him do some funny things. That was a fun Wednesday.  Dr. Harte is a funny guy!

By:Hannah & Vincent