Field Day is a tradition that every student looks forward to at St. James! Coach Nicole, with the help of parent volunteers and upper Middle School students, prepare fun & competitive stations. Students are partnered and given a punch card to keep up with which station has been completed. And of course, all students participate in adorable tie-dyed T-shirts!

This activity is always a favorite in 3rd grade! We begin saving magazines from the 1st day of school and use them to create colorful class photo frames on Earth Day! All you need is a magazine, glue, cardboard, photo and lots of patience 😉

“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made”- Psalm139:14

Serving our community through acts of kindness is a vital piece of the overall puzzle that helps mold a student here at St. James Day School.

This year we chose to partner with, “Fearfully & Wonderfully Made", a local nonprofit ministry that helps families of NICU babies in our local hospitals.

Over a span of 7 days, our class along with all students of St. James, collected quarters (of course bills were accepted, too☺️) 3rd graders helped collect, count and roll the quarters. Each day we created a bar graph that displayed $$ data to keep the students engaged. This was a fun and healthy competition that allowed me to teach/review so many skills!

At the end of our service project, the students helped “stuff” the blessing bags! Each “backpack” costs around $250 to fill. Backpacks contains items such as; restaurant gift cards, a roll of quarters for vending machines in the hospital, a baby blanket, diapers, wipes, formula, cash gift cards, etc.... We were able to provide 9 blessing bags!!

 Overall, we collected $2,339.00!! If you would like to donate your time and/or money towards this ministry, please visit the website below.

https://fearfullyandwonderfullymade.com

A classic and always a favorite in 3rd grade, we completed the adventurous novel study, Pippi Longstocking. Pippi has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a pet monkey named Mr. Nilsson. Whether Pippi’s scrubbing her floors, doing arithmetic, or stirring things up at a fancy tea party, her flair for the outrageous always seems to lead to another adventure.

Our class celebrated the completion of our study by wearing “Longstockings” to school! We also compared the similarities and differences between the book and classic movie!

Eating Our Way Through Math

Learning how to analyze and interpret data from graphs was a fun change up in our math curriculum! In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, we used a family size box of Lucky Charms to count the amount of each type of marshmallow. Then we created a bar graph to show the quantity of each. Who knew nearly 300 delicious marshmallows can be found in 1 box of cereal!?

The marshmallow that we found the most of was the “horseshoe” and the least amount was the rainbow”!