Lights! Camera! Fashion Show!

Friday night was the night for our Van Winkle students to "strut their stuff!" We held our annual Van Winkle Fashion Show, and it was a huge success! All the students looked fantastic in their sporty, casual, or dressy attire. Special thanks to Mrs. Torrey and all the other teachers who helped to put this night together.

Jendaya modeling her basketball uniform

Selicia and Sherrina modeling their dressy attire

Jameel on the far right lookin' good!

Nareuna modeling casual wear

Lyric strutting down the walkway

Jaylin striking a pose in her casual wear

All of our students looked so cute in their regular clothes! Mrs. Johnson is used to seeing uniforms. This was a nice change. Great job class!

Here's the Scoop...Reading is Cool!

One of the great things about being a third grader is the opportunity to work with Junior League of Jackson. Each year, the Jr. League gives every student in our school free books multiple times throughout the year. They also work exclusively with us - third grade! Each classroom has two volunteers who read with some of our students twice a week. These ladies donate their time to help us learn to read more fluently, and they help instill a love of reading. We look forward to their visits each week! Thank you Junior League of Jackson for all you do to help our students!

As their time with us came to an end this year, they prepared a fun surprise! We had an ice cream sundae party Friday afternoon! It was so fun!

Some of the volunteers serving ice cream

We were so excited!

Charles and Alric are dying for some ice cream!

Yummy!

Mr. Graves even had some ice cream!

As if reading with us, giving us free books, and throwing an ice cream party was not enough...the ladies also brought gifts for all our teachers! Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Hicks, and Mrs. Jierski were given beautiful pitchers and a bright dish towel. They were so happy!

The teachers with the chairperson of this Jr. League project, Mrs. Lisa.

Thank you, Junior League! Your service has proved to be effective in many ways. Third grade reading test scores are evidence of your hard work. Our teachers love to see us reading on our own initiative also! You helped to encourage our love of reading! We wish you could work with fourth grade next year so we can read with you again!

Easter Egg Hunt

Thursday was our last day before Easter break. Mrs. Johnson and Miss Greenwell had a fun day planned for us. First, we worked in centers ALL morning. We love centers! Then, for math, we worked on adding and subtracting four-digit numbers. But, our teachers planned a fun way to do this. We worked some problems on eggs. When we finished our work, we decorated our Easter eggs. It was fun!

Tyrell working on decorating his egg

Antasia, Brindarius, and Charles showing off their eggs

Kadajah, Selicia, Jaylin, and Lyric look like they had fun!

After lunch, we had our own Easter egg hunt! We brought plastic eggs and candy to school. We all helped to fill the eggs. Then, Miss Greenwell and Mrs. Johnson hid the eggs while we went to counseling. It was SO much fun! We were screaming and laughing the whole time. Mrs. Johnson said that it took them 40 minutes to hide all the eggs, and it only took us 4 minutes to find them! We moved so fast, Mrs. Johnson only got a couple of pictures.

Selicia even brought her own Easter basket.

Sharnecia found an egg in the tree.

Thursday was lots of fun! We hope everyone has a great Easter! See ya Tuesday!

How To Make A Windsock

In preparation for the MCT2 coming up in May, our class has been practicing with various reading passages. Today, our passage was titled "How To Make A Windsock." It gave directions to making windsocks. Mrs. Johnson pointed out the text structure of the passage: steps in a process, or simple procedure. Simple means "easy." A procedure is "something you do." So, Mrs. Johnson told us Simple Procedure is "something you do that is easy." It is easy because the passage gave us step by step instructions to make our own windsock. In order to make reading more fun, Mrs. Johnson let us follow the instructions to make our own windsock. After all the steps, there was a paragraph that told how windsocks work. After reading that, Mrs. Johnson let us go outside in our courtyard and fly our windsocks. It was so much fun! It was a perfect day because it was so windy!


Maybe after this fun activity, we will remember what simple procedure is.