Mrs. Smith's classroom blog: May 2014

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

PICTURES!

We've been talking about Economics. Click here to see pictures from our Flower Factory Assembly Line.

To see many other pictures from the last month, click here.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

May 27th - Happy Memorial Day.

Newsletter 5/27/2014

Spelling Unit 30

Monday, May 19, 2014

It's Raining, But We're Still Smiling!

The rain is coming down, but it's ok, we're still hard at work.

Newsletter May 19th-23rd

Spelling Unit 29

Our Last Class of Junior Achievement!

Planting Peppers

Monday, May 12, 2014

We cannot believe how fast these last weeks are going. We have so much learning and wonderful classroom things to do. It is going to be a very busy last few weeks.

Newsletter 5/12/2014

Spelling Unit 28

Thursday, May 8, 2014

A Rainy Week

Newsletter 5/5/2014

Spelling Unit 27

Yearbooks go on sale 5/8

Coins for Critters runs until Friday, 5/9

We started talking about figurative language this week including puns, idioms, anagrams, oxymorons, and palindromes. You can watch a short clip we watched on puns here: Pun comedy

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Our Crystal Cave Adventure

On Wednesday, April 30th we traveled to Spring Valley, Wisconsin for our Crystal Cave field trip. We had a great time! This field trip was funded through wonderful donors on Donors Choose. Please ask your child all about this exciting learning experience!

Pictures from Crystal Cave can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifblNsSFI1MFhGSWc&usp=sharing

Student Resources

Raz-Kids: Download the app. My teacher username is mrssmith124. Students know their password.

DreamBox & Prodigy: Please contact me for login information.

Google Drive (homework and in class activities): https://drive.google.com/

Math Playground, fun math games for practice: http://www.mathplayground.com/grade_3_games.html

https://www.gonoodle.com/ and sign up for free as a parent.

www.flocabulary.com/join-class Please ask for the home code to join and use at home.

Apps we use on a regular basis:
Book Creator
QR Code Reader
Seesaw

All about me

About Mrs. Smith: Mrs. Smith grew up in Barron, Wisconsin where she graduated from Barron Senior High School. She got married shortly after high school to her husband, Sam. They moved to Superior, Wisconsin where Mrs. Smith began college at the University of Minnesota Duluth. There Mrs. Smith began studying elementary education right away. She worked in multiple classrooms from Kindergarten to 8th grade. Mrs. Smith had her first son, Noah during college and her daughter, Isabelle, shortly after graduating college. For a year after college she substitute taught in local schools in the Duluth and Superior area and worked at a restaurant. When she was hired at Spooner Elementary her family bought a house in Wascott and moved. In 2011-2012 Mrs. Smith taught her first year as a Spooner 3rd grade teacher. In 2012-2013 Mrs. Smith was a 2nd grade teacher. She started teaching 3rd grade again in the 2013-2014 school year. Mrs. Smith had her 3rd child, Jonah, in December of 2013. She also coached volleyball. Her family moved to Sarona in 2014. In October of 2016 Mrs. Smith had Annabelle! She is now starting her 7th year at Spooner Elementary School. She loves teaching 3rd grade! She has a passion for teaching and her students.

Mrs. Smith has a large family. She has three brothers, six sister-in-laws, and a brother-in-law. She has seven nephews and seven nieces. Her parents and in-laws still reside in Barron, Wisconsin.

Besides teaching Mrs. Smith enjoys scrapbooking, being involved in her church, enjoying the outdoors, being with family, playing board games, volleyball, and flavored coffee.