Email From a Student

I got an email from one of Mrs. Bond's students. Her name is Maddie, and she was very compassionate about my fall the other day! It made my night to see her email in my inbox. I was just getting ready to send an email to Mrs. Johnson to report on how the class has been doing, and I saw her email. I am a bit sad that tomorrow is the last day in Team Bond. All of the kids and teachers will be leaving for their holiday break. I am not sure if I will be sticking around or being sent elsewhere. It has been great to be back! Elfran Etavonni

Holiday Fun in Team Bond

Last week I thought it would be awesome to hang around in Team Bond on the beautiful wreaths they have made out of plastic baggies, but in the afternoon I took a fall to the ground.  Check out the tweet I found from Mrs. Bond


Luckily a little boy picked me up with a piece of paper, in order to preserve my magic.  I wasn't strong enough to move anywhere else in the room the next day, so I stayed in the back of the room.

They were working on the computer doing math problems on Edmodo Snapshot.  I am impressed with the kiddos in this classroom.  I have seen some of them coding, and a lot of them love playing on a site called Prodigy.

On Monday I was very touched, as 2 boys left me presents...a bow and an elf sticker!  I liked them so much, I decided to take them with me to my new location.  I decided to tuck myself inside a pocket near the classroom makerspace.  This is a very cool section of Mrs. Bond's room, as it has a lot of neat things that kids can build with.  It also has a very large box that the kids like to sit in and read. Sometimes they get in arguments over who can sit in the box, so that isn't so nice, but I think that it is cool that Mrs. Bond has a big box like that in her room.  Monday was pretty interesting too, as there were 8 new kids in the classroom, as their teacher was sick, and there weren't enough subs. Their class had to divide into 3 groups, and Team Bond got 8 of the kids.  It made it a more interesting day, I'm sure.  I liked watching them do explorations with mirrors and light.  That was super cool to watch!  They also learned a lot about how Christmas is celebrated around the world!

Well...school gets out on Thursday, so I will be sticking around for a bit more!  I'm looking forward to observing their holiday party! 

Etavonni the Learning Elf

Back in Team Bond!!

I was a bit bummed that I missed out on being in Mrs. Bond's third grade class last year, as she was a 5th grade teacher.  I am so glad that she is back in 3rd grade, as I love observing all the fun things she does with her little kiddos.  As usual, the students were so excited to see me in their classroom.  I heard a lot of kids comparing me to their Elves on the Shelves at home.  They were wondering if I was a girl or a boy, as they couldn't see what outfit I was in.  (I was hiding inside a book spindle.) It was pretty neat, as there are branches of leaves that have cool words on them.  I bet Mrs. Bond taught something where they had to look up words.

From my point of view, I was also able to see a map of where the kids had Skyped or had Hang Outs with. I think it is cool that they are able to connect with people from other states.

In Math I was able to see the kids practice how to measure to the nearest half-inch. Some kids enjoyed measuring the Minecraft books.  I am glad to see that Minecraft is still something kids are interested in.  I love how creative kids can get while using it. I was not too happy with some of the kids that were trying to make me spin around and around on the spindle just for fun.  I mean, if they are looking for a book, that is fine, but these boys were just spinning it for fun.

It was amusing watching the kids get bundled up for recess.  One child said that they had to put 50 things on.  I didn't really see 50 things, but I am sure it felt that way.  Hopefully they stayed warm. 

One of the students wanted to know what it would be like to have me sit on the flagpole..so that is where I plopped down last night. So far today I have watched the kids measure their show lengths and create a line plot, and I enjoyed watching them write letters to their parents about the things they needed. I bet the parents will really like that!

That's all for now!

Etavonni, the Learning Elf