Happy Back to School!

Welcome Back!  I am so excited to be back at school doing what I love this week!  I can already tell it's going to be a great school year!  We have had a lot of fun and exciting activities already in two short school days!  Today I want to highlight a great one that our team completed.  This year for our Back to School Retreat our principal had Adventure Games come and do team-building activities with us.  It was so much fun that our grade-level team decided to do a remake for our very own classroom.

We broke the students into 4 teams.  Students were given six tasks to complete in a predetermined amount of time.  Four of the tasks were required tasks and two were a bonus.   Here are the tasks that we had the students complete:

1.  Find two new teachers to our building and get a selfie and autograph.
2.  Create a cheer using the words Goodman, So Happy Together, Third Grade and Mrs. Branham.
     Record it on the IPad.
3.  Create a talk show and record it.  (2 minutes)
4.  Recreate one of the photos on the wall in the office.
5.  Using the 5 items in the basket make something useful.  (Give them things like toilet paper rolls,
     tape, aluminum foil, craft sticks, etc.)
6.  Using items you find in the room create a costume and take a picture of it with your IPad.

WOW!  The students' creativity for this project blew us away!  I underestimated the amount of creativity they would bring to this project.  It was a lot of fun and most students said it was their favorite activity from the day!

We are off to a great start!  I hope you will stay up on the awesome things happening in our classroom this year!  Have a TERRIFIC THURSDAY EVENING!