Jessica's Post

On Wednesday our class went to see the Constitution Center, Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. At the Constitution Center we saw statues of the delegates from the thirteen colonies. Stephanie bought the Constitution and said she stole it. :-) At Independence Hall we saw this guy who looked like Benjamin Franklin. We saw where they signed the Constitution. We thought we lost our tour guide, but we were really on our own. We wanted to go to  Benjamin Franklin's House, but we didn't have time because it was time to go. The girls watched Game Plan, a little bit of Mary Poppins and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The boys watched Bolt, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Americas Legend in the car. On Thursday Mrs.Herr had a rash on her face so Mrs.Redcay, our second grade teacher, taught us for the rest of the day.   

~Jessica~

MATH TEST ON THURSDAY!

I'm so sorry that I forgot to mention our upcoming MATH TEST this week! The students received their study guides today. We will review them tomorrow and play a game during math class. Since we are not here on Wednesday (Philadelphia field trip), the test will be on Thursday. I apologize for not including that in our Herr Happenings Newsletter last week!

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I will post tomorrow about last minute field trip details! Have a wonderful evening!

Special Visitor!

This past week we had a special visitor come to our classroom- Mrs. Redcay! She was the students' teacher last year in second grade. She had a baby boy named Connor over the summer and brought him in to meet the students!

Everyone LOVED watching Connor in the beach corner.  I think he was having fun meeting all the students and seeing some new faces!

Look at Connor checking things out! I think he is excited for school! :-)

The students were trying hard to make him smile!

Anna decided that Connor wanted to hear the story "Bedhead" since he had such COOL HAIR.

It was a FUN visit to have Mrs. Redcay and Connor come in to say hello. We are excited for the next time they come in to visit!

God blesses the OBEDIENT heart!

We just finished up the story of Noah and how God blessed his family because he obeyed God. What a CRAZY thing for him to do...build an ark? We studied all the instructions and details and tried to imagine how we would respond if we were asked to do something like that. Would we have been as faithful as Noah?

Each of us thought about an area where we would like to really obey God (similar to Noah) in our lives today. We all wrote it on a stip of paper, read it out loud to the class and posted it to the ark in the back of our classroom. We are all trying to encourage each other to obey like Noah even when we do not feel like it. Ask your student what he or she chose and see how they are doing.

What a cool privilege to be able to learn about obedience from the Bible and to be in a classroom where we can encourage other to be more like Christ. Thank you Lord for your Word and LCCS!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Go Phils!





Kelly's Post

This week we did a play in languge arts. Mrs. Redcay came and brought Conner to school. He was so cute!! We are also doing a play about the constitution.

-Kelly

*** 3-Digit Addition CHALLENGE! ***

In math today, we worked on 3-digit addition. The students worked at 3 different stations, doing 3-digit addition problems, in 3 different ways.

Example:  356 + 129 = ??

One of the stations was a computer game. On this website, the computer gives you a 3-digit addition problem to answer. The object of the game is to see how many you can get correct. You can also change the settings and have it time you as well. Help make it FUN for your son or daughter to PRACTICE! Maybe even take them on in a challenge!

Good Luck!

http://www.aaamath.com/g38c_ax1.htm#section2

(Please let me know if you have any trouble viewing this!)

Chick Action

This is a belated post about our precious chicks! Last Friday, we had a lot of fun with them. After 21 days of turning the eggs and watching them hatch, the students FINALLY had the chance to touch, hold and play with them. They are too cute!

We wanted to be careful since they were only a day old. We observed that the chicks really liked the heat from the light and stayed huddled together to keep warm. It was cold after being in the warm incubator!

In order to get the chicks comfortable with us, we started by reaching into the box to practice holding the chicks and petting them. The chicks were scared and a little jumpy, but eventually they learned to like us! :-)

Lots of hands reaching down! They had no idea what to think!

We did have a little chick with a hurt leg. We observed that the other chicks seemed to pick on him a little bit. We all felt so sad for him.

A couple of the girls had the chance to actually hold the chicks for a little bit. When the boys get the chicks out, one of them pooped! Needless to say, it made the boys not want to hold them anymore!

(Anna with a chickie)

(Janae with a chickie)

(Kelly with a chickie)

(Jessica with a chickie)

One of our cute chicks! We miss hearing them peep and move around. Anna has all three at her house right now and is taking good care of them. We are getting updates from her each day on how they are growing and changing.

We had a lot of fun with our chick project. The students will be bringing home a certificate from the 4-H program annoucning their completion of the program. Perhaps there are some future chicken farmers in our third grade class?

Have a happy day!

Stephanie's Post

The chicks have hatched. They all went home with Anna!

-Stephanie Pini

The Chicks are Here!!!!

This morning, I came into the classroom and saw this! EMPTY EGGSHELLS!! The chicks began pecking away yesterday, but this morning THREE of the eggs turned into chicks!

They are so cute. Poor things are so tired from all of the pecking to get out of their shells! We are going to leave them in the incubator until their feathers are fluffy and dry. Hopefully sometime this afternoon we can move them.

They are making their cute little peep noises all morning long. We are all really excited to hold them and watch them grow. For now, they are pooped. So we enjoy watching them through the incubator window.

When their feathers are fluffy and dry, we will move them to the BROODER BOX. We learned all about the BROODER BOX yesterday. Some important things which need to be part of their brooding box are:

1. Water- the chicks can easily drown at such a young age, so we made sure to put rocks in their water dish to help prevent that from happening.

2. Food- PSU gave us some chick food to keep in the corner.

3. Pine Shavings- this is will help the chicks not to slip and slide on the bottom surface. The pine shavings provide a soft place to lay and it helps hold the heat to keep the chicks warm.

4. Heat lamp- the chicks are still very cold and adjusting to life outside of their eggs. The heat lamp will help keep their brooding box warm and the chicks comfortable.

We will post some more pics once we move the chicks!!

Happy Thursday!

Fire Safety Week!

Last week was "Fire Safety Week"

The local fireman came to talk with our students about how to be prepared for a fire and how we can help to prevent fires.

The fire truck even made the loud siren noises and flashed its lights as it left the school!

Upper Leacock Fire Company is the local one here in Leola.

 Each of the men introduced the students to some of their equipment and their favorite tools.



They also showed us all of the gear they wear and how to put it on!

The students had a chance to sit inside of the truck and feel like a real fire fighter!

(Kelly, Gabriel, Zac)

The students also had a chance to use the hose! Fire Fighters have to be really strong. The hose was really powerful.

(Gabriel)

(Zac)

(Justin)

The 3rd graders standing in front of the truck.

Stephanie trying out the hose!

Some more students inside of the truck!

(Stephanie, Anna, Steven and Jessica)

Janae using the hose.

Johnny giving it a try too!

We are really thankful for our fire fighters who risk their lives to take care of our families! We learned that our smoke detector batteries should always be active and that we need a plan for our family in case we would be in an emergency situation.

WHAT'S YOUR PLAN?



Justin's Post!

Mrs.Herr was very, very, very nice on Wednesday.She let us write what ever we wanted in our chit chat jounal. I wrote about the future. The Phillies won the World Series!

-justin

BAKE SALE TOMORROW

Tomorrow is our 3rd grade bake sale! Please bring/send in your cookies, brownies, cupcakes tomorrow morning so we can be prepared and ready to sell at lunch time! Thank you so much ahead of time!! We look forward to supporting our Compassion Child Julio for the month of October!!!

Mrs. Herr

Steven's Post

"We've been turning eggs this month. I hope you like turning and taking care of your eggs! The eggs felt warm and healthy."

-Steven