Landforms Project

To test my students on landforms, I gave them each a paper plate, salt dough, paint, toothpicks, paper, and tape. I then asked them to create and label 10 landforms with the supplies given to them.

Arizona's Centennial

We celebrated Arizona's 100th Birthday on February 14th. We had a huge celebration at our school on Valentines Day. Arizona is known as the Valentine State. At the celebration each class was asked to have an art display, so I decided to have my class create a quilt together. Each student designed their own fabric square with an Arizona theme. Then, I taught each student how to sew their piece to another, until our quilt was complete.

Poetry Unit

We started a poetry unit yesterday. We made a Poetry Map, showing what the students already knew about poetry. Any time a student finds a poem or books that have any type of poetry they add it to our poetry map. After creating our Poetry Map we created an acrostic poem about the New Year. 

Today we read a few poems and talked about rhyme and patterns. Then, we created a "Partner Poem" as a class.

Beginning of the Year Classroom Layout

Third Day of Third Grade.

Meet the Teacher

I am third grade teacher. This is my first year teaching and boy has it been fun and exhausting! I have felt every emotion under the sun! I have felt happy, angry, excited, scared, proud, frustrated, and all the other emotions I have left out. It has been an adventure so far and I'm loving it! However, there have been many tears and times I have felt so overwhelmed and frazzled, hence the name of the blog.

I created this blog several months ago, but never got around to posting. I feel like I don't have enough time or energy in the day to accomplish everything I need or want to. I feel like my list is never ending, but I love it! I love to stay busy, I love to feel like every single day is new. I never get bored being a teacher! It is the best job in the world. Although if you asked me earlier today I would have said I hate teaching. Haha.