TISA 3rd Grade

Congratulations once again to Caira for winning the Smelly T-Shirt Reading Contest in the Fall. Acknowledgement is also in order for Abby, Willow, and Analyia, who came in close runners up.  Fortunately for everyone, our class is starting up a new Reading Contest for the Spring. The theme is a Reading Marathon. We are now writing our reading logs on "running feet," which we are going to put up around the school and see how far we get! Students will continue to earn stickers, which they can put on their marathon avatars.  Our class went on a fantastic field trip last week to the Talpa Community Center. We got to visit the library, where the students explored new books and read to each other. Thanks to the librarian there, Ms. Lucita, we also got to make tortillas. They came out so tasty, and the students enjoyed eating them for lunch paired with butter, peanut butter, and fresh jam. Feel free to contact me if you want the recipe.  Our class walked to the Guadalupe gymnasiu...

The TISA 3rd grade submitted their Do It Yourself projects before the Christmas break. Everybody showed an incredible amount of creativity and ingenuity on their projects. They also did gave excellent presentations and explained thoroughly all the steps they went through.  Aria made soap, and she was kind enough to share it with her classmates.  Butter, which we got to sample in school. Yum! A pillow for our bench. What a thoughtful thing to do for our class! Mateo made a bow-and-arrow. Definitely a useful thing to have in the Big Woods! A very imaginative stuffed animal.  Freya made her own version of the "Little House."  Cheese curds. An interesting, and involved culinary process! Lito made yogurt and was kind enough to bring some for everybody to taste! Cosmo made his own stuffed animal. He explained to the class every step of the process. Chive butter. Another delicious project that we got to taste in class. Analyia made empanadas. A tradition in her family! Viol...