Awards Day

Van Winkle had our annual Awards Day this morning. Mrs. Johnson's class was well represented! Congratulations to all the students who received awards today! Mrs. Johnson is so proud of you all!

Dwinesha, Jendaya, and Jaylin received the Honor Roll Award for having honor roll all year long! Wow!

Dwinesha also received the Good Citizen Award for being such a help to Mrs. Johnson and her classmates. In addition, Dwinesha has the highest grade point average of all third graders in Language! Super job, Dwinesha!!

Sherrina received the Music Award from Mrs. Williams! Sing it girl!

This year has been great! Our class has been and will remain the best around! Mrs. Johnson reminds us of that daily! We must always act and perform like the best by trying our best and never giving up! We know that this work ethic will carry us through our next two years at Van Winkle.

What a year!!

MCT is OVER!!!!

How do we feel now that the MCT2 is over?

Take a look...


We worked extremely hard this week on the MCT2! We believed in ourselves, and our teachers did too! But, we must say we are SO glad it is OVER!!!

MCT Pep Rally

Today was Van Winkle's annual MCT Pep Rally. Each year, prior to state testing, Van Winkle celebrates our hard work and motivates our students to do their best on the test! This year each class made a banner for the parade, and each grade came up with a cheer to perform for the entire school. It was great fun!

Our sign outside our class

Look at all that hard work!

After several practice sessions, we were ready for the parade!

Alric, Jameel, Charles, and J'Darrien showing their MCT spirit!


Our class sign for the parade

Woo hoo! Zoom! Zoom! Watch us crank and watch us roll!!!

Doing our class cheer - the best one of the day!

Our class actually came up with the cheer for third grade! It was a huge success! We sang "Stanky Legg" to Mrs. Johnson, and she put new words to it:

If you're smart here, we'll be doing the MCT, doing the MCT, doing the MCT!
If you're smart here, we'll be doing the MCT, doing the MCT, doing the MCT!

If you're proficient or advanced, rub your hands across your head!

Take your time on the test, chick!

You can do it too!

Snap your fingers in the air, and shake your pencils too!

You can lean with it, and you can drop with it!

You can switch the other leg, and you can stop with it!

Now, get it! Get it! Get it! Get it!

Do the MCT2! Do the MCT2! Do the MCT2! Do the MCT2!

It was an exciting day! Now, we are ready to show the world what we know! Bring it on, MCT2!

Field Day Fun

Today we had our annual Field Day! It is always so much fun to spend a day outside playing and competing with other classes! We certainly deserve it after all the hard work we have done to get ready for the MCT2. Mrs. Johnson made us matching t-shirts, and we pulled out our "fruity accessories" from an earlier event. Miss Greenwell brought the girls ribbons for our sleeves, and Mrs. Johnson painted our faces. We were set!! Our class competed with Mrs. Jierski's class all day. Both classes did a great job! We cheered for the last people to finish no matter if they were winning or not. Mrs. Johnson was very proud of our good sportsmanship! Of course, we have tons of pictures from our fun day! Mrs. Johnson always has her camera handy! Enjoy! We did!

The class lined up for our first event

Mrs. Johnson even let Charles wear a clown wig!

Sherrina put her game face on!

Alric is moving fast in the Pool Ball Relay!

Jameel and Markeith are tied up for the three-legged race.

Shanora and Dwinesha struggling through it! They had tied the wrong feet together!

The hula hoop race was a new addition to field day, and we loved it!

Boys in the space jump

Girls in the space jump

J'Darrien and Mrs. Johnson take a rest

Arrion, Lyric, Alric, Markeith, and Ja'Von just finished the basketball shoot.

Sponge Relay - This was a very close race, but we pulled it off in the end!

Ja'Von jumping tires in the obstacle course. Mrs. Jierski and our class tied.

Lyric is trying to keep that egg on the spoon!

Our class can double as cheerleaders too!

Getting ready for the 5-in-1 space jump.

potato sack race

A worn out class after all the events!

We had so much fun! Thank you to all the teachers who helped put such a great day together for us!