Our Great News of the Week!

We read all of the great news that you sent us, and we couldn't pick just one entry. We'll share with you news that brought smiles to our faces this week:

* A sister and her family visited a family member in the hospital after an accident and brought her a basket full of goodies, since she does nice things for others all the time. Good things happen to those who do good for others!

* A group of middle schoolers took time out of their busy lives and served food at a soup kitchen! Way to go guys!

* A Tallahassee volunteer spent her weekend in the magical place of Disney World as she chaperoned child cancer patients during a bonding trip. What a special place to bring such deserving children.

* A mom passed a child waiting for the school bus in pouring down rain, but turned around and stood with him under her umbrella until the bus came. Way to go mom!

* A neighbor passed out back to school goodies and notes of encouragement to children in her neighborhood.

* A customer in the Starbucks drive through had her coffee paid for by the person in front of her. After being short on patience, she realized that the wait was worth it!

Our class project can only continue with your help. Make sure to share those random acts of kindness sightings with us at great.news.grizzlies@gmail.com.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Bees Are Really Busy!

After learning about honeybees, a type of invertebrate which fall in the phylum of arthropods, we enjoyed some biscuits and honey this morning during science. What a nice treat courtesy of Reid's and Rachel's families. Honeybees are quite fascinating check them out here.



We also met with our 3rd grade science buddies from Mrs. McKnight's class (also known as my mom!). We set up a great experiment to see microorganisms at work. All you need are some bananas, yeast, sealable bags, and water. We're keeping our eye of these, and we will report back our conclusions.

All In a Day's Work

Today was busy, what am I talking about, every day is busy around here! We finished off our portrait board, some budding journalists had their work displayed, and Mrs. Crowell showed us a monarch caterpillar (which is going to turn into a beauty!).

We Were Curious?

Today in science we learned about the world of invertebrates. As a matter of fact 95% of the species of animals on Earth are invertebrates. Remember...that means that they don't have backbones. An annelid is a type of invertebrate. You will find a lot of worm type animals in this phylum. We were curious today about the "ring" around our friend the Earthworm. Drum roll please...it is called the clitellum. We hypothesized about what this "ring" could be, but come to find out it is a place where eggs are deposited. Believe it or not Earthworms are very helpful creatures to our world. If your curiosity is still swirling, here and here will slow your head down.

Share Your Great News!

Make sure that you submit some good news that you see going on around you to great.news.grizzlies@gmail.com. We are looking for random acts of kindness, strangers helping strangers, you catch the drift. We want to focus on all the great things happening around us all the time. Check on Mondays for our favorite submission from the week!

Supermodels!

As you know last week my students hammed it up for a photographer friend of mine! He did a great job capturing the kids' personalities. We will use these photographs to make an art exhibit in our room this week, but I had to let you see them too! If you would like to view them click on the link below. You can also order from the website! Thank you Gjergj at Volaj Photography!

The password is: whitaker (all lowercase)

http://www.imagequix.com/photog.php?id=Z9QAN9Z&ec=gilchrist