Field Trips!

The third grades will be going on several field trips this year. More details will follow, but if you'd like to plan ahead, here are the dates:

9/25-Boerner Botanical Gardens
10/19-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
1/16-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
2/8-Boerner Botanical Gardens
3/27-Boerner Botanical Gardens
4/19-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
5/20-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
6/6-Boerner Botanical Gardens

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to Kozy and welcome to Third Grade! I look forward to teaching all of you and to another great year at Kozy!

Report Cards

Report Cards will be sent home tomorrow.  Check your child's folder.

Mouse Trap!

Today the Mouse Trap! assembly came to Kozy.  Using only balloons, Mr. Smartypants taught the children about the principals of simple machines, force, and energy.  After demonstrating five different simple machines, he assembled each machines into a mouse trap that caught the mouse.

Money Madness

Next week we are continuing to raise money for new technology for the school.

Monday, 3/26--Bring Pennies
Tuesday, 3/27--Twin Day
Wednesday, 3/28--Dimes
Thursday, 3/29--Quarters
Friday, 3/30--Bring Any Money
Monday, 4/2--Stuck for a Buck Day.  Bring in your dollars to buy a piece of tape to tape Mr. Hecker to the wall.

The classroom raising the most money, earns a pizza party!!

Spirit Weeks

Monday, March 26-Flip Flops & Sunglasses Day
Tuesday, March 27-Twin Day
Wednesday, March 28-Wacky Wednesay - dress crazy!
Thursday, March 29-Backwards Day
Friday, March 30-Wisconsin Sports Day
Monday, April 2-PJ Day
Tuesday, April 3-Color Day--Third Grade is YELLOW.
Wednesday, April 4-Formal Day
Thrursday, April 5-Brewers Day

Experiment With Light

Today the students used two tin cans to mimic how the eye worked. 

The eye works by letting in the correct ammount of light through the pupil which then hits the back of the eye.  Special cells called rods and cones read that light and then transmit the information via the optic nerve to the brain.

On the first can they placed tinfoil over the opening and poked a small hole in it.  This small hole acted as the pupil and let light in. On the second can they placed a plastic shopping bag over the opening.  This acted like the back of the eye.

By looking through the cans, children were able to see what their eyes see.