Dictionaries from the Rotary Club

On Friday, Dr. Creeden and Mr. Shannon visited Steward School and taught the third graders about the many ways Rotaty Club helps make the world a better place. The children watched  a video and learned how the Rotary Club helps provide clean drinking water, polio vaccines and scholarship money. Our Student Council is an Early Act Club which is also a part of Rotary Club. The entire third grade received dictionaries from the Topsfield/Boxford/Middleton Rotary Club. The children loved their dictionaries and put them to immediate use back in the classroom looking up vocabulary words. They were very grateful to the Rotary Club for their dictionaries!

Holiday Party

Our Holiday Party was a huge success! The children loved making the craft and playing Holiday Bingo! Two minutes before dismissal they didn't want to stop! Thank you to everyone that provided food, paper products, the craft and helped with the party.  Mrs. Corliss' class wishes everyone a joyous Holiday season!

Wreaths Across America

The Third Grade student Council recently donated money to purchase 6 wreaths for Wreaths Across America. The wreaths were made in Maine and the trucks made a stop in Topsfield on their to Arlington National Cemetery. On December 13th, volunteers were able to place the wreaths in every section of Arlington National Cemetery and honor over 230,000 veterans!  Mrs. Costa and I met some of our third graders at the Topsfield Fair Grounds to welcome the volunteers and attend the ceremony. A wreath was presented to Topsfield and it was placed at the memorial in front of the town library.

Wreaths Across America's mission is: Remember. Honor. Teach.

Click the link below to see the Wreaths Across America convoy leaving Ellsworth, Maine.

http://safeshare.tv/w/CLoKyyjjkk

To learn more about Wreaths Across America, please visit their website.
http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/

We are waiting for the Wreaths Across America Trucks to arrive!

The children counted 12 tractor trailers filled with wreaths.

Each truck was filled with thousands of wreaths.

Some of the volunteers were on the bus.

Book Swap

I would like to celebrate the holidays with the

children by having a book swap on Tuesday, December 23^rd.  Please

send in a third grade level paperback book wrapped and marked:

boy (if your child is a boy)

or

girl (if your child is a girl)

Your child’s name does not need to be included on the wrapped

gift.  Please contact me if you have any questions.  

Books should be sent in by Friday, December 19^th!

Chinese Acrobats

On Tuesday we saw some very talented acrobats perform. This was an amazing Cultural Enrichment program. Thank you to TESPTO for providing these enrichment programs for us!

Hour of Code

On Thursday our class participated in Hour of Code. This is a global event to expose students to computer science. The boys and girls had to write the code of a video game. The children loved doing this! It was definitely challenging and required students to use problem solving and logical thinking skills. If the children would like to continue coding they can click on the link below.

http://code.org/learn

Click here to see the video we watched about Hour of Code

They can also try the other challenges on the page, such as the Frozen Game.

Students had to give the commands to make the Angry Bird move.