Christmas Morning at 512

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!
Oh my goodness, look what Santa left at my house.
I hope you all are enjoying your friends and family this holiday break!
I know that all of are writing in your journals each day; I can't wait to share our adventures.
Miss Y'all!

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Crazy Sock Winners
Student : Izabelle #7
Teacher: D. Sanker #49
Thanks for all of your votes!

Children's Book Week

We are celebrating Children's Book Week at TCE this week. Today,to kick off the celebration,we all dresses like our favorite book characters. I think we all certainly enjoyed the day and really got the students excited about reading.

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TCE Pumpkin Contest

On October 22, 2010 our class won 3rd place in the TCE Pumpkin Contest! Every year each classroom participates in decorating a pumpkin to represent a character in their favorite book. This year we chose Is This A House for Hermit Crab? by Megan Mcdonald. Each child had the opportunity to help design our pumpkin to look like a hermit crab. They had fun and I think you'll agree that they did a Fin-tastic Job!

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Habitat Vocabulary

We have been learning about the different habitats in Georgia. Please use one of our vocabulary words found inside the starfish in a sentence.You can post your sentence in the comment section. Please don't forget to sign your name!

Serenity is Off to Alaska

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Making a Marsh

In science we are learning about the different habitats in GA. Our first lab was to create a replica of a marsh to show that the purpose of a marsh is to clean the water. If we didn't have marshes, our environment and drinking water would be affected. The students enjoyed our first lab and they worked very well with their lab partner. We would like to know if you had a favorite science experiment that you would be willing to share with us.

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What Are You Doing This Summer?

Hope all of you are having a wonderful summer so far!It is hard to believe that we have been on summer vacation for a little over two weeks. I really miss all of you! I see that Yvonne has made it to Texas,T'ana's daddy is back from Iraq, and I have one more week of teaching summer school. Caleb and Mr. Sanker left today for a week long camping trip and my daughter, Lauren,is flying to Pennsylvania for the summer. After summer school, I will be heading to the beach. Please let me hear from you and share what you are doing during your summer.

SOAR Student of the Month for May 2010

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How to Eat Fried Worm

We finished reading How to Eat Fried Worms,explored with worms in science, built a worm compost, measured and observed worms, watched the movie How to Eat Fried Worms, and today Mrs. Walton even made us fried worms to eat. All enjoyed dipping them into hot sauce, ketchup, or spicy mustard. Have you ever eaten fried worms? We would love to hear about your experience.

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TCE Field Day

Today we had Field Day and I would have to say that all of the children had a blast! They worked as a team, used some great strategies, and had a great time. We were very excited when we took 1st place in the Tug-of-War! It was a successful, hot, and wonderful day bursting with team spirit! I am so very proud of all of them!

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Creating A Compost Pile

One of the activities related to Earth Day and apart of our Science Standards for 3rd grade was to learning about and to build a compost pile. We have successfully built a compost pile by the bus ramp at TCE. The recipe to build a compost pile is: some brown stuff,(dead leaves, pine straw,)some green stuff,(fresh grass clippings,green leaves)and food(leftover fruits and vegetables,coffee grounds,egg shells, air, and water).The end result of a compost pile is to eventually have humus (rich soil)

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Daryus

Our trip to Seabrook Village was enjoyed by all. We made a broom, went on a hayride, sat in the old schoolhouse,pumped water, washed clothes without a washer, and sang while we made butter. It was hot and the bugs were very bad, but we had a great time!

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Okefenokee Swamp Park

Our trip to the Okefenokee Swamp Park in Waycross,Ga was a huge success! It was so valuable for the students to be able to see and touch something that they were learning about in our science curriculum this year. This experience created priceless memories for many.

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CRCT

We spent this week taking the CRCT-Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests.The CRCT is designed to measure how well students acquire the skills and knowledge described in the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS). The children worked very hard this week and came in each day with a positive attitude. Our message this week was to HOPE for success and to BELIEVE in yourself. All we need to do now is to wait for the results!
We interviewed a few student to see how they felt taking the CRCT and to see if they had some advice for next years students.

Earth Day

This week we talked about Earth Day (April 22nd). We decided that Earth Day should be celebrated everyday! Some of the ideas the children shared for helping the Earth were: clean up trash, recycle, reduce the use of water/electricity, and reuse plastic bottles. One of the activities that we did this week was to design a reusable cup to get the message out about saving the Earth! Let's all work together to make tomorrow beautiful!

In the comment space below, please share a way that you can help save the Earth.