A funny thing happened while reading and I wanted to share it

As a teacher I have the great privilege of working everyday with the funniest, brightest, hardest working little human beings. Some days we need a laugh break. In the past week I have had 2 very good opportunities for a laugh. The first came as a student was giving feedback for a story she read. She told me she would rank the story as a beginner story, when I asked why she said "OK it is about a King...and he is POOR. That makes no sense, Kings can't be Kings if they are poor" I could not help but to laugh. The next day though I would laugh so hard tears may have come to my eyes. While reading in a Guided Reading group another student asked to use my iPad to take an Accelerated Reading Quiz. I asked one of my students to move over so the girl could sit in the corner where my iPad was. The boy looked at me and as I was about to repeat myself said, "No one puts Baby in the corner" You can't make this stuff up. As I laughed he looked at me and asked if I had seen that movie. It was very funny. Moments like these do not come from any other job. I am grateful everyday :) 

-Mr.G

Long time no see :) Busy Busy Busy and Loving it!

Really sorry to the five followers we have for not updating more often :) We have been working very hard on story writing making great strides towards our end goals. We have all progressed in reading this year and daily Mathamagicians are developing. It has been a great year so far and now in the final stretch we continue to do some fun things.

As a school we have taken on the goal of collecting some items that will be brought to schools in Thailand and Cambodia. Students will be collecting things like Skipping Ropes, Frisbees and water toys that will be heading over with a great organization called "Play around the World" we are very excited to help. In grade 3 we discuss the the rights of the child and how children have rights that should be guaranteed. One of those rights is the right to play. The kids have made some great posters to illustrate this right.

Hard at work

Love the eyes LOL

Perfect

Great finished product

In working towards developing some visualization and inference skills we read a very fun book called I NEED MY MONSTER without seeing the pictures students had to visualize based on the descriptions what each monster looked like. It was a ton of fun and they did a great job :) Take a look.

Creepy 

Creative bulletin board with over 100 monsters :) 

Would the real Gabe

Please

Stand up 

Great Book!

Love this job. Teaching is the best thing out there is you can be lucky enough to have such great students. Thanks for checking in.

Cheers,

Mr.G and the SUPER 3's

We have had a lot of fun lately :)

Very busy working on tons of things in grade 3. We have been turning out some really great writing, dominating the fractions unit, learning about countries all over the world and creating fantastic music. Take a look at some of the great stuff we have been doing.

Some 3d-maps

The Taj Mahal (pretty good :) ) 

India seems to be the most popular

That is one big elephant 

Oasis anyone 

This band named themselves "The Funnies"

Drum made from scratch :) 

Cup+ Water+ Balloon= WICKED BASS

Genius instrument that created sound when magnets crashed against each other  

Well there is a bit of what we have been doing. Hopefully we don't have such a long wait next time :)

-Mr.G

Busy Busy Busy

Report Cards and final assessments and other activities have kept me from blogging but I will try to get a good sized update this weekend. Funny story of the day, We made homemade kazoos in class and one of the kids did the full theme of Pirates of the Caribbean. It was awesome. He received a standing ovation from the class. 

Pink Shirt Day 2013

Today we had Pink Shirt day as a way to voice our position that Bullying is not ok and our class and school will stand up to bullies. This little adventure began when I challenged the school that if 350 students wore pink I would color my hair. We had kids submit posters and writing pieces and many other things to help support our cause. In the end it turns out the kids want me in pink and so tomorrow I will be coming in as a new and pink hair Mr.G stay tuned for pictures. One of the students wrote a great little piece about bullying and in the end quoted the Great Sansei Woe from Lego Nijago " The best way to defeat your enemy is to make them your friend" Check out some pictures below.

Cheers,

The soon to be Pink Mr.G

The day before Valentines

Today we made Valentine collection envelopes and really put heavy emphasis on math. Division was the game of the day and we are showing some great growth. We also tested our multiplication skills and are coming along very well.

The highlight of the day would have to be dodgeball with the almost 60 kids. It was awesome but I feel as though my arm might fall right off. After a few hits to the face I decide it was time to take the kids down. We all had a great time :)

Cheers, Mr.G

Friendship keepers a daily exercise

I know we have discussed friendship keepers before but today was just a fantastic moment. The kids always ask if we can do friendship keepers and I am always happy to let them share these great moments of kindness directed at their classmates. Today was a great day. Almost everyone contributed and one student received 3 (which was a first for him ). Afterwards kids walked up to congratulate him on his 3 friendship keepers and he was just beaming. Another student dubbed his math partner a mathamagician which of course is already a made up word and his spelling did not even come close but he was so proud to call his partner a mathamagician that the whole class cheered them both on. Teaching is the greatest job.  The adventure continues tomorrow.

Mr.G