Mrs. Smith's classroom blog: June 2016

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Our Last Day

It was a fun, but bittersweet day. We had a lot of great activities today and we definitely had a great year. We have all grown so much and learned so much! Thank you for entrusting me with your children and partnering with me. I am excited to see all the great things they accomplish in 4th grade next year!

We grew 26 1/2 inches this year!

Our: What We've Learned Wall!

The last day of school makes me feel...

Family Picnic

We had an awesome family picnic on the last day of school.

Last Days

We played kickball with Mrs. William's class on Wednesday. It was a lot of fun!

We had to do a lot of demolition of our amazing creations, so we decided to take some pictures before we destroyed them!

Monday, June 6, 2016

Track and Field

Today we had a phenomenal afternoon of track and field events. We only had a two minute down pour, which we had great cover under the bleachers. We had fun and enjoyed cheering our classmates on! Teachers were the score keepers and time keepers! Pictures can be found by clicking here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifV3NBS2NYaDZmMlE&usp=sharing

The last leg of the 3rd grade relay race:

Money Talk With Tansy and Molly

Our TA, Tansy Pocernich brought her puppet, Molly and did a ventriloquism skit for us. She wrote it about money to go along with our Economics unit. We loved it! Click this link to watch the video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4B6qqBRN5ifOHl1end0SXVCVjg/view?usp=sharing

Friday, June 3, 2016

Econ Fair

Over the past two week students have learned all about Economics, money, business, wants, needs, supply, demand, producers, consumers, saving, giving, and more. Today we held our Econ Fair. Student earned tickets by helping out at home and looking for random acts of kindness and odd jobs to do at school. Today students shopped at the Painting Palace (face painting), Pop Pop Wii (Wii bowling), Smith 3D (printed 3D necklace charms), The Awesomes Awesome Bracelet (bracelet making store), The Cookie Rookie Store (cookie decorating store) and The Photographers (pictures with an outdoor background). After shopping they came back and worked in our stores. In our Smith 3D shop we had a cashier, a janitor, two sales people, a tailor, a string person, a manager, and a greeter. It was a great experience! We sold 62 3D printed charms. They took us all week to print!

There are lots of pictures to see by clicking this link: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4B6qqBRN5ifbnh2Nk9DdTFaZWs&usp=sharing

Volunteers

Today at RAILS rally we thanked our wonderful volunteers. This year we've had the privilege to have parents come and help during different times. Mrs. Hestad also spent quite a few days with us teaching us using Junior Achievement curriculum and Mrs. Hill came every week to read with us. We were very blessed!

Our last Rails Rally of the year.

Us with Mrs. Hill.

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.