Walk, Jog, Run

I’ve found a website that I think my students would enjoy! All of my students enjoy running when they feel they are running to another city or state. This website http://www.walkjogrun.net/ is great because you can enter an address and it will calculate where you will end up!

Let me know if you use this and decide to "run" to somewhere outside of Pell City :) 

Have a great week!

Read Across America Week!

Last week at school we celebrated Read Across America week because Dr. Seuss' birthday was Friday, March 2nd.

We celebrated with wacky sock day, pajama day, Sneetch day, and even had green eggs and ham in the lunchroom! One day we all "dropped everything to read" and read in the hallway for 15 minutes and enjoyed some "cat chow" which is made of a mix of goldfish, crackers, etc.

Some of my favorite "wacky socks" had Army men climbing them!

Mrs. Carr's 2nd graders made these and were so thoughtful to bring me one :)

Our fabulous Sneetch shirts!

Mrs. Donaldson & Coach Green are Thing 1 & Thing 2

In PE I found another Thing 2 with Anna :) 

She is absolutely precious and one of my best helpers!

We also had a door decorating contest... 

We had a ton of fun around Iola during RAA or Dr. Seuss week! 

Exciting things are going on out back at Iola as well... I was able to snap this from an upstairs classroom! 

Come on Down... to the History Fair!

This week our fabulous 4th grade students participated in the school history fair. Their instructions were to construct a project representing a portion of Alabama History. My Mom teaches 4th grade in my hometown and I loved Alabama History when I was a 4th grader so this is always dear to me! I love to see what all the kids come up with and am anxious to ask them how much work they did on their projects :)

Take a look at what the 4th grade academy hallways looked like over the last week... I'm happy to say my "home" is in the 4th grade academy!

Some students even did Iola Roberts Elementary... I say it is an AWESOME part of Alabama History in St. Clair County!

This was the winning project... A perfect representation of downtown Pell City! 

Some of the other wonderful projects...

The Battleship!

Several students did Avondale Mills which is a large part of Pell City history. 

The 2nd place project... another great one!

Alabama Theater

 

Very detailed work!

If you've ever been to Noccalula Falls then you have to appreciate this one!

As you can see some of the students chose other parts of Alabama History, but some chose to stay close to home in Pell City and St. Clair County. You can also see that I teach some pretty amazing 4th graders! These kiddos were in kindergarten my first year at Iola and if I think about it I start to tear up to think that in 3 months I have to send them to the intermediate school! This class is full of leaders, comedians, and fierce competitors! I have no doubt they will go on to do great things!

Have a great weekend!

School Supplies for Center Point

Our boys and girls had a school supply drive for Center Point Elementary which was damaged during the recent tornadoes. We were able to donate about 10 boxes of pencils, papers, crayons, markers, folders, books, and lots of other supplies!

We had a boys-vs-girls competition and when this picture was taken the girls were ahead of the boys, but the boys made a great come back and the end result was a tie!!!

Popcorn Fridays

Popcorn Fridays have been a huge hit at Iola this spring! The great response has allowed us the opportunity to purchase a new machine and it is AWESOME!!!

This was our trip to Sams to purchase the machine and some more supplies! The lovely Ms. Velma went with me!

Coach Green getting ready to make a "test batch" of popcorn before Friday!

And as my shirt says...everyone needs some peace, love, and PE in their life :)

The first batch of popcorn in the new machine!

Popcorn Friday Information:

• $0.50 per bag
• Orders must be turned in on Thursdays
• $ and orders go to your homeroom teacher

Have a great weekend! We are gearing up for Fun Friday tomorrow!

100th Day of School

Yesterday was the 100th day of school!!!

We celebrated in PE by doing 100 exercises!

Miss Maycie showing off her ticket she earned!

And Mr. Dylan!

Jackson showing his ticket while wearing his 100th day hat that his class made!

3rd vs 4th Grade Basketball Game

It has been a while since I've updated here because things have been very busy at Iola! After returning from the Holiday break we started a basketball unit and really focused on dribbling, passing, and shooting. The 3rd and 4th grade students had an opportunity to put those skills to use on Thursday afternoon during our basketball game.

3rd grade lead the game 14-2 for most of the game, but near the end 4th grade came back and won 20-18. 3rd grade is calling for a re-match :) We will see about getting that planned!

Great job 3rd and 4th grade students!!!