We are a Blue Ribbon School!

Hooray! Today we celebrated becoming a Blue Ribbon School! We were treated to ice-cream in our classroom! What a fantastic surprise!

Kindergarten Buddies!

Today we met our Kindergarten buddies! We got to know one another and discussed 'service learning' and the armed forces! This year our buddy activities will focus on crafts and projects that support the men and women in our military! We can't wait for our first one in October!

Praying Mantis Observation!

Today a classmate brought in a praying mantis and crickets to share! This tied to our science unit on food chains! Some of us watched the mantis eat a cricket! We also observed him up close with our Elmo camera! We got to talk about predators of the mantis and other organisms within this food chain! Thanks for sharing!!!

Writers Crafting True Stories!

We are working hard in writing on our first personal narratives! We are trying to tell a small moment "seed story!" That means that we've zoomed in to focus our topic instead of writing about a giant watermelon idea! 

Come on Rain by Karen Hesse has been a wonderful mentor text! You can read it with your child as an ebook in his/her Storia account!

We've also started working with writing partners! It's fun to share ideas and help one another!

Students are crafting wonderful true stories! They are writers hard at work!

Our Schoolyard Ecosystem

We're learning about ecosystems in science! This morning we beat the heat and headed outside to explore our schoolyard ecosystem - all the living and non living things and their interactions!

Ms. Shelly came outside and asked some of us to help her pick the ripe tomatoes! How fun!

Outside in the grass we saw many crickets!

Our scavenger hunt was a lot of fun! Ask your child about some of our ecosystem vocabulary including: habitat, population, and community!

Third Grade 2014-2015!

We have been back at school for five days now and we've had a lot of fun getting to know one another and begin establishing our routines, procedures, and expectations! Here's a look at our first few days of the 2014-2015 school year!

We worked together to come up with our "Class Constitution"

We've been reading the poem "What's in the Sack?" by  Shel Silverstein

Students have put various items in their own "sack" to share their interests and talents with us!

We are a team! This our class quilt that wouldn't be complete without each of us!

In reading, we've learned how to choose good-fit books!

Students are super readers! Our read-to-self time is going great!

We've also set goals as readers!

In math, we started some partner games to begin our workstations!

It's going to be a great year! We hope you'll check back to see more of our learning and activities!