Wax Museum

Days like today make me proud to be a teacher.  After a trying week, I needed today.  I was so proud of the efforts my students made with their 7 Habits Wax Museum.  During the past few weeks students researched a person that represented one of the 7 Habits of Happy Kids.  After their research, they wrote and memorized a speech about their person and how they represented one of the habits.
As 1:30 approached I could feel the nerves of my students.  I was worried they would freeze when visitors and parents arrived.  I was ecstatic when my normally silly, rambunctious kids performed flawlessly.  They spoke clearly and not one forgot their speech.  This activity and idea came from a unit I purchased on Teacher Pay Teacher here.

Bear Bryant, John Heisman, and Shug Jordan

Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller, Maya Angelou, George Washington Carver

Maya Angelou, George Washington Carver, Clara BArton

Mae Jemison

John Heisman, Bear Bryant, Bill Gates

Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan

Clara Barton

Parents watching the performance!

Now we continue working on our PBL unit planning a field trip for a class from another school.

Have I told you lately....

I LOVE blog stalking.  I knew that that was thing I needed to do as I was preparing and planning for ARMT review.  Alabama's standardized test will be given soon and my students needed some fun, active way to review.  I found some great ideas here and here.  I took those ideas and created a Bootcamp activity for the entire third grade and a Surgery Center review for my class.  Both days were a lot of fun and gave meaningful practice to an otherwise boring review.
On Tuesday, camouflage was encouraged.  Dog tags were made and passed out to each student. Students marched into the lunchroom.  They were assigned a table and the fun began.  As any recruit would do the students responded to a chant to get them fired up.  They played a game of Scoot with twenty different objectives.  They had 4 minutes at each station to complete the activity.  Then they responded to the call of ARMT with Bootcamp as their signal to rotate.  They had fun reviewing and working in a group discussing the process and answers.  After the bootcamp, students reviewed the questions in their homeroom and a "Bootcamp Manual" full of testing tips was sent home.

Working Hard at Boot Camp

ARMT Review

 Today our classroom was turned into Broadhead's Surgical Center.  As students returned from PE, I yelled to them that we had an emergency and they needed to get to the room STAT.  They were hilarious running down the hall.  While they were gone I had changed into scrubs, so I was ready to be the supervising physician during surgery.  They were given a medical kit that included a mask and gloves to put on and then they were ready for surgery. They went into surgery to find a body on the table and ARMT open ended math practice problems.  They worked in groups and each time they were caught synergizing, they were given a band aid for their patient.  I loved seeing my students solving problems and working together.   After surgery, they gave their patient some body parts to give them life and we hung our "beautiful" creations in the hall.

I know my students are prepared for the ARMT.  They have been working hard all year.  I only hope their ability is reflected in their work next week.  Good luck!!!!